| 1 |
On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 14:55, Whitley CTR Cecil H wrote: |
| 2 |
> Hi, |
| 3 |
> |
| 4 |
> I was put in contact with John Davis about a week ago concerning an |
| 5 |
> issue i'm having with the 2004.2 livecd. After some research, it |
| 6 |
> appears to be a re-emergence of a previously reported problem. See |
| 7 |
> bug id 42345. Initially I thought it was accessibility related (I use |
| 8 |
> speakup), but the problem occurs whether or not speakup is on. |
| 9 |
> |
| 10 |
> Details: |
| 11 |
> |
| 12 |
> I have a p4 3.4 (northwood) Asus p4c800-e deluxe mobo with 1gb RAM |
| 13 |
> (matched pc-3200 in a dual channel memory configuration). evga |
| 14 |
> fx5900-vivo video card, Seagate s-ata (internal), and an external USB |
| 15 |
> drive bay with a Maxtor 40gb hd. Sony dvd and sony cd-rw drives (hdc |
| 16 |
> and hdd respectively). Upon boot with the smp kernel |
| 17 |
> (2.6.7-gentoo-r11) I have an unconfigured eth0 (onboard Intel e1000 |
| 18 |
> csa 82547). When I run net-setup I get a kernel panic. The |
| 19 |
> "helpfull" error msg is "n interrupt not synching". I lose keyboard |
| 20 |
> control, etc and only the reset button works. |
| 21 |
> |
| 22 |
> The 2.4.26-gentoo-r6? kernel works fine and properly configures the |
| 23 |
> network adapter. I have loaded the system with 2.4.26-gentoo-r9 |
| 24 |
> compiled for SMP support and other than issues relating to booting |
| 25 |
> from a USB external hd, the system seems to be stable. I am however |
| 26 |
> having to insmod usb-storage and rerun devfsd /dev -np in order for |
| 27 |
> the hd to be recognized and root of /dev/sda1 to be loaded. At some |
| 28 |
> point i'll mod the linuxrc to do this automagically. 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 |
| 29 |
> is not yet functional, but this may relate to devfs/udev (i.e. user |
| 30 |
> failure) and I simply haven't had time to gather all relevant |
| 31 |
> information and throughly test. |
| 32 |
> |
| 33 |
> At this point I haven't gotten the system fully configured, but I |
| 34 |
> think i'm far enough along to provide logs from the 2.6.7 boot, |
| 35 |
> although logging the panic is beyond my technical skills (I make a |
| 36 |
> decent monkey though, so if you tell me what to type where i'll give |
| 37 |
> it a try). In particular, if I can redirect the log to my hd along |
| 38 |
> with any crash dump i'm more than willing to. |
| 39 |
> |
| 40 |
> Regards, |
| 41 |
> |
| 42 |
> Cecil Whitley |
| 43 |
|
| 44 |
Cecil - |
| 45 |
This seems to be more of a kernel bug than anything else and I am not |
| 46 |
sure if we can be of assistance. File a bug with the kernel developers |
| 47 |
and see if they have anything. |
| 48 |
|
| 49 |
Regards, |
| 50 |
-- |
| 51 |
John Davis |
| 52 |
Gentoo Linux Developer |
| 53 |
<http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen> |
| 54 |
|
| 55 |
---- |
| 56 |
GnuPG Public Key: <http://dev.gentoo.org/~zhen/zhen_pub.asc> |
| 57 |
Fingerprint: 4F9E 41F6 D072 5C1A 636C 2D46 B92C 4823 E281 41BB |
Archives