Bug 214092

Summary: kernel panic at bootup
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Yousaf <yousaf>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Hardware: i686   
OS: Linux   
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Description Yousaf 2006-11-05 17:46:00 UTC
Description of problem:
At bootup, there is a kernel panic message:

<0> kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

After selecting the kernel version from grub, the system freezes showing the
above message in the final line. After one or two restarts the kernel
successfully boots. Can't find anything in /var/log/messages as it is too early
in the boot process for anything to be written. dmesg output looks OK too.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
After clean installing Fedora Core 5, using yumex, I updated the kernel to:

2.6.18-1.2200.fc5

How reproducible:

If the machine has been switched off for a while. 

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:

Machine:

CPU: AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+ stepping 02
Memory: 514444k/524272k available (2041k kernel code, 9312k reserved, 801k data,
220k init, 0k highmem)
Motherboard: ASUS A7V333

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2006-11-06 01:42:03 UTC
could you capture the whole backtrace? even a photograph of the screen would be
good enough.


Comment 2 Yousaf 2006-11-10 18:14:43 UTC
Created attachment 140921 [details]
a photograph of kernel panic at boot

>could you capture the whole backtrace? even a photograph of the screen would
be
>good enough.

Hi

Attached is a photograph of the screen at boot.

Hope this is helpful.

Thanks

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2006-11-21 00:37:42 UTC
there's one fix that *might* explain this problem pending for the next update. 
I'll get it into updates-testing by the end of the week hopefully.


Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-04-04 04:27:08 UTC
Fedora apologizes that these issues have not been resolved yet. We're
sorry it's taken so long for your bug to be properly triaged and acted
on. We appreciate the time you took to report this issue and want to
make sure no important bugs slip through the cracks.

If you're currently running a version of Fedora Core between 1 and 6,
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Comment 5 Bug Zapper 2008-05-06 16:42:46 UTC
This bug is open for a Fedora version that is no longer maintained and
will not be fixed by Fedora. Therefore we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of
Fedora please feel free to reopen thus bug against that version.

Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed.