Followup-For: Bug #386497 Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-686 *** Please type your report below this line ***
See also bugs 380188, 383264 I attempted to boot linux-image-2.6.17-2-686-bigmem and also had this failure. This kernel was from backports.org, _but_ only these changes had been made: linux-2.6 (2.6.17-8~bpo.1) sarge-backports; urgency=low * Rebuilt for sarge. * Built using gcc-3.3 and python2.4. * Disabled ABI check. -- Norbert Tretkowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tue, 5 Sep 2006 19:19:31 +0200 so I think it is worth following up to this bug. I will of course send this report to the backports people too. Note that linux-image-2.6.16-2-686-smp from the same source worked (same level of changes, just a recompile basically). The console message right before the hang was ts: Compaq touchscreen protocol output The first few lines after that are BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c printing eip: c020ab74 *pde = 039a5001 *pre = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: tsdev sg psmouse hw_random mousedev serio_raw shpchp e752_edac edac_mc 8250_pnp ide_floppy pci_hotplug joydev evdev 8250_pci pcspkr rtc floppy ext3 jbd mbcache ide_cd cdrom siimage piix sd_mod usbhid generic ehci_hcd mptfc mptscsih uhci_hcd megaraid_mbox mptbase scsi_transport_fc megaraid_mm usbcore e1000 scsi_mod thermal processor fan CPU: 0 EIP 0060 [<c020ab74>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS 00010206 (2.6.17-2-686-bigmem #1) EIP is at uart_write_room+0x9/0x16 The hardware is: Dell PE1850 with dual CPU, 4096Mb memory, Bios rev A00. I am not using the bpo libc6-i686 package. dpkg -l |grep libc6 ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sa GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone ii libc6-dev 2.3.2.ds1-22sa GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea ii xviewg 3.2p1.4-19 XView shared libraries [libc6] This is a SMP-aware kernel, % grep SMP /boot/config-2.6.17-2-686-bigmem CONFIG_SMP=y # CONFIG_X86_BIGSMP is not set CONFIG_SUSPEND_SMP=y CONFIG_X86_FIND_SMP_CONFIG=y CONFIG_X86_SMP=y I have the hardware attached to a KVM and the serial port connected to a serial concentrator. The relevant bits of /boot/grub/menu.lst are serial --unit=0 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1 terminal --timeout=5 console serial kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.17-2-686-bigmem root=/dev/sda2 ro console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600 I saw the comment about blacklisting 8250_pnp but did not try this. I have hotplug-utils and udev installed, I don't understand why /etc/hotplug should have anything to do with this problem but perhaps it does. FWIW, % ls /etc/hotplug/blacklist.d libsane This file belongs to the (sarge) libsane package and should have no relevance to this discussion. % dpkg -l udev ii udev 0.100-1~bpo.1 /dev/ and hotplug management daemon -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686-smp Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]