[syslinux] pxelinux.bin (3.80) hanging at the beginning of menu.c32 TFTP transfer

Philippe Auphelle pauphelle at gmail.com
Fri May 22 10:31:22 PDT 2009


> Could you try 3.81-pre10 from the Testing directory?

Sure, will do on Monday.
Thanks!


On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 18:46, H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> Philippe Auphelle wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Using syslinux 3.80, I'm seeing pxelinux.bin hanging after the
> > (succesfull) transfer of the default file.
> > Running a lan trace, it appears that all goes fine until the time
> > pxelinux sends a TFTP RRQ for menu.c32 to the TFTP server, gets the
> > first data packet back, and apparently freezes at this point.
> > The TFTP server then times out and retries (3 times) then finally
> > sends an error packet with an ErrMsg of "time out".
> > Using 3.80, the client machine is frozen, but keyboard interrupts are
> > still processed, and Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots.
> > Using 3.72, I get similar results, but with keyboard interrupts stuck
> > (the machine needs hard reset or power cycling).
> >
> > The TFTP service involved doesn't support tsize, but studying the the
> > release notes indicate that pxelinux handles this situation since
> > 3.70.
> > Finally, in case this could help diagnosing the problem, I have
> > recorded a LAN trace that shows the whole client / tftp server dialog
> > since pxelinux startup, up to and including the final retries and
> > error message.
> >
> > Is there anything else I could do to help diagnose that problem?
> >
>
> Could you try 3.81-pre10 from the Testing directory?
>
>        -hpa
>
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