[ale] kernel panic on ale server

[Jim Kinney]

OoH! good call. I'll look. beering right now so don't want ot touch a
computer as root :-)

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 3:18 PM, scott mcbrien<smcbrien at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>> James P. Kinney III
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