[Bug 29909] Kernel Panic on boot

Paul Jones pajones at puc.edu
Sat Jan 28 08:26:26 UTC 2006


Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/29909

Affects: linux-source-2.6.12 (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
On about fifty percent of boots the kernel panics when bringing up the
ethernet card.

This may be related to Bug #28998.

Here is what is on the screen when it crashes:
[4294797.071000] [<c01156dc>] _wake_up+0x2e/0x3a
[4294797.071000] [<cca5b0b3>] em8300_irq+0xb3/0x125 [em8300]
[4294797.071000] [<c013674c>] handle_IRQ_event+0x39/0x6d
[4294797.071000] [<c0136823>] __do_IRQ+0xa3/0xfc
[4294797.071000] [<c01051fd>] do_IRQ+0x19/0x24
[4294797.071000] [<c010380e>] common_interrupt_0xia/0x20
[4294797.071000] [<c01b92ca>] iowrite32+0xif/0x27
[4294797.071000] [<cc8d01ed>] tulip_up+0x2bf/0x961 [tulip]
[4294797.071000] [<cc8d08e3>] tulip_open+0x54/0x66 [tulip]
[4294797.071000] [<cc8cdb5d>] tulip_interrupt+0x0/0x99b [tulip]
[4294797.071000] [<c0234496>] dev_open+0x76/0x85
[4294797.071000] [<c0294077>] __down_failed_trylock+0x7/0xc
[4294797.071000] [<c0235903>] dev_change_flags+0x5d/0x137
[4294797.071000] [<c0276c8a>] devinet_ioctl+0x4c5/0x55e
[4294797.071000] [<c0278bfc>] inet_ioctl+0xc7/0xd3
[4294797.071000] [<c022b771>] sock_ioctl+0xiab/0x239
[4294797.071000] [<c016639d>] do_ioctl+0xiab/0x239
[4294797.071000] [<c01664f6>] vfs_ioctl+0x65/0x1d4
[4294797.071000] [<c01666ea>] sys_ioctl+0x85/0x93
[4294797.071000] [<c0102df7>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
[4294797.071000] Code: 00 29 d0 8d 04 80 eb b4 55 89 e5 8b45 08 8b 50 04 89 55
08 5d e9 75 f6 ff ff 55 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 10 8b 45 08 8b 7d 10 8b 10 <8b> 32
39 c2 eb 36 8b 5a f4 8d 42 f4 8b 55 18 89 54 24 0c 8b 55
[4294797.071000] <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
[4294797.071000] _

After pressing Alt+SysRq+1, Alt+SysRq+t the following is displayed:
[4295088.883000]  [<c011b993>] do_wait+0x2d7/0x3bb
[4295088.883000]  [<c0115645>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
[4295088.883000]  [<c0294389>] schedule+0x303/0x5a5
[4295088.883000]  [<c0115645>] default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
[4295088.883000]  [<c011bb3f>] sys_wait4+0x3f/0x43
[4295088.883000]   [<c0102df7>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
[4295088.883000] sleep              S C03833E0         0 7382  7363
  (NOTLB)
[4295088.883000] c604ff4c 00000082 c6060060 c03833e00000000e 0000000b c8147862 cb658124
[4295088.883000]              cb658124 0003d090 589d1e00 000f4218 c82cdb80 c6060060 cf
060184 fffd671e
[4295088.883000]              c604ff60 00000000 fa09bac0 c8294c33 c604ff60 fffd671e 00
00804c c0388ad8
[4295088.883000] Call Trace:
[4295088.883000]   [<c0147862>] vma_link+0x48/0xb6
[4295088.883000]   [<c0294c33>] schedule_timeout+0x5d/0xab
[4295088.883000]   [<c0120dd8>] process_timeout+0x0/0x9
[4295088.883000]   [<c0120ece>] sys_nanosleep+0xdd/0x18e
[4295088.883000]    [<c0102df7>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
[4295088.883000] dhclient-scri R running       0 7383 7381 7385
(NOTLB)
[4295088.883000]  ifconfig        R running       0 7385 7383
(NOTLB)

Here is some relevant information.
$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and Memory Controller Hub (rev 02)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BA IDE U100 (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 01)
0000:00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV34 [GeForce FX 5200] (rev a1)
0000:02:09.0 Multimedia controller: Sigma Designs, Inc. REALmagic Hollywood Plus DVD Decoder (rev 02)
0000:02:0a.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs SB Live! EMU10k1 (rev 0a)
0000:02:0a.1 Input device controller: Creative Labs SB Live! MIDI/Game Port (rev 0a)
0000:02:0b.0 Serial controller: Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem (rev 01)
0000:02:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Linksys NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100 (rev 11)

The ethernet card is using the tulip driver sucessfully here.

$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Pentium III (Coppermine)
stepping        : 6
cpu MHz         : 938.164
cache size      : 256 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1859.58


This error started happening after upgrading to Breezy. And it occurs with both the i686 and the i386 kernels.

Any help debugging this issue would be never much appreciated. Please
let me know if any more information would be helpful.




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