Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in mark_files_ro

2012-07-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sun, 2012-03-25 at 14:56 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: [...] Any ideas? I think this safely rules out i915 as the cause. Also, i need to retract my claim that it was running the lenny kernel for years until just recently, now that i've inspected the logs from the machine more

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in mark_files_ro

2012-03-25 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:38:20 -0500, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm about to try to reboot it again to see if i can get it back to stability under the lenny hypervisor and kernel, but i'll need to do that with the rescue 2.6.32-5-486 image as well,

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2012-03-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 00:36 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On 03/24/2012 12:25 AM, Will Set wrote: [...] This is the first i'm hearing that the -486 flavor would cause instability on highmem machines. Can you point me to some documentation so i could understand why that might be the

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2012-03-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
Package: linux-image-2.6.32-5-486 Version: 2.6.32-41 less than 10 minutes after booting to 2.6.32-5-486 on an HP d530 SFF workstation (model DG784A) with 4GiB of RAM, i got this kernel BUG and then panic: [ 574.852044] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at b4777dbf [ 574.856011] IP:

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in mark_files_ro

2012-03-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: less than 10 minutes after booting to 2.6.32-5-486 on an HP d530 SFF workstation (model DG784A) with 4GiB of RAM, i got this kernel BUG and then panic: Thanks. [ 574.852044] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at b4777dbf [ 574.856011] IP: [c109520e]

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in mark_files_ro

2012-03-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:19:58 -0500, Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com wrote: Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: [ 574.852044] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at b4777dbf [ 574.856011] IP: [c109520e] mark_files_ro+0x27/0x6f [ 574.856011] *pde = [ 574.856011] Oops: 0002

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request in mark_files_ro

2012-03-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: I'm about to try to reboot it again to see if i can get it back to stability under the lenny hypervisor and kernel, but i'll need to do that with the rescue 2.6.32-5-486 image as well, so it's possible that i'll have another backtrace or crash to follow up with in a

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2012-03-23 Thread Will Set
  Friday, March 23, 2012 6:42 PM Daniel Kahn Gillmor The only kernel boot parameter on this run was console=ttyS0,115200n8 -- i brought up the rest of the system by hand during this fallback attempt. According to HP, http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/11632_ca/11632_ca.html    ---

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2012-03-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:51:37 -0700 (PDT), Will Set debiandu...@yahoo.com wrote: the mobo has an 865g chipset. Yes, i believe that's correct. I know of 5 bug reports that confirm using boot parameter - processor.nocst=1 as a workaround for kernels 2.6.38 Thanks, i will try this the next

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2012-03-23 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Will Set wrote: I know of 5 bug reports that confirm using boot parameter - processor.nocst=1 as a workaround for kernels  2.6.38 linux-image-2.6.39  through linux-image 3.3.0-rc6-686-pae   - on both of my 865g based boxes. Link, for reference:

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2012-03-23 Thread Will Set
Friday, March 23, 2012 11:06 PMDaniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:51:37 -0700 (PDT), Will Set debiandu...@yahoo.com wrote: I know of 5 bug reports that confirm using boot parameter - processor.nocst=1 as a workaround for kernels 2.6.38 Thanks, i will try this the next time i

Bug#665413: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request

2012-03-23 Thread Daniel Kahn Gillmor
On 03/24/2012 12:25 AM, Will Set wrote: Friday, March 23, 2012 11:06 PM Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote: On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:51:37 -0700 (PDT), Will Set debiandu...@yahoo.com wrote: I know of 5 bug reports that confirm using boot parameter - processor.nocst=1 as a workaround for kernels 2.6.38