[ale] kernel panic on ale server

scott mcbrien smcbrien at gmail.com
Sat May 23 15:18:55 EDT 2009


Interesting that it's happening while scanning the PCI bus, some odd device
there?  What's the device probed after e100 on the old kernel?
-Scott

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:

> Couldn't leave well enough alone. Just _HAD_ to do some updates...
>
> New kernel 2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 to upgrade from 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5.
> It's unhappy as can be seen from the line beginning with the word BUG:
> . Always a bad sign. null pointer dereference at 00000000 is pointing
> to the start of RAM with no room to move. looks like a bug to me.
>
> Rolled back to original kernel so people can still play ping/pong...
>
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> PCI: Firmware left 0000:00:06.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling
> PCI: Discovered peer bus 01
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual
> address 00000000
>  printing eip:
> c04eeb97
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000 [#1]
> SMP
> last sysfs file:
> Modules linked in:
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0060:[<c04eeb97>]    Not tainted VLI
> EFLAGS: 00010286   (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 #1)
> EIP is at pci_create_bus+0x47/0x19a
> eax: 00000000   ebx: dffb7200   ecx: 00000000   edx: 00000001
> esi: dffb7000   edi: c06a4c50   ebp: 00000001   esp: c1488f68
> ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> Process swapper (pid: 1, ti=c1488000 task=c1489aa0 task.ti=c1488000)
> Stack: 00000018 00000000 c06a4a24 00000001 00000018 00000000 c04ef984
> 00000000
>       c06a4a24 c0712214 00000000 c065a0e2 00000001 00009005 00000000
> c0724a3c
>       00000000 c06f55a8 c06f0fd8 c0404e06 00000202 c06f542b 00000000
> 00000000
> Call Trace:
>  [<c04ef984>] pci_scan_bus_parented+0xa/0x1f
>  [<c0712214>] pci_legacy_init+0xb6/0xdf
>  [<c06f55a8>] init+0x17d/0x24a
>  [<c0404e06>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x1c
>  [<c06f542b>] init+0x0/0x24a
>  [<c06f542b>] init+0x0/0x24a
>  [<c0405c53>] kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10
>  =======================
> Code: 00 00 a1 f4 62 68 c0 ba d0 00 00 00 e8 9b 00 f8 ff 85 c0 89 c6
> 0f 84 51 01 00 00 8b 44 24 1c 89 ea 89 7b 40 89 43 44 8b 4c 24 1c <8b>
> 01 e8 00 41 00 00 85 c0 89 04 24 0f 85 28 01 00 00 b8 a8 e3
> EIP: [<c04eeb97>] pci_create_bus+0x47/0x19a SS:ESP 0068:c1488f68
>  <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>
>
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