Bug 1419432

Summary: kernel panic "general protection no entropy gathe libc-2.24.90.so
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: George R. Goffe <grgoffe>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: cz172638, fweimer, gansalmon, ichavero, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Description George R. Goffe 2017-02-06 06:52:55 UTC
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Description of problem:

After several rounds of heavy system update over the past 2 weeks, this system has started panicing. I waited... thinking that someone had seen the problem and had fixed it. I waited too long. Now, all 3 kernels panic with the same message (see below).

I have tried a different version of VirtualBox but am experiencing the same symptom.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
unknown

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:
panic

Expected results:
normal boot

Additional info:

general protection ip:7f49c784f352 sp:7ffc6cd8dd70 error:0no entropy gathe[  110.765476]  in lib    332 c-2.24.90.so

Comment 1 Florian Weimer 2017-02-06 07:40:25 UTC
Do you use FIPS mode?  Could this be a duplicate of bug 1401444?

Comment 2 George R. Goffe 2017-02-06 20:47:39 UTC
Florian,

You are a GENIUS! I checked the rpms installed and there were several with fips in their name. I have removed them and now the system boots! YAY Florian!

Now I have to reinstall things like openssh (et. al.) and any other packages that "think" about FIPS things. 

Serves me right for blindly installing ALL packages. Oh well.

I would have no problem if you closed this bug but I'd like to suggest that if a user does something stupid like this, the kernel could issue a warning and NOT try to do FIPS like processing. NONE of my filesystems are encrypted.

Regards and THANKS for your help!

George...

Comment 3 Florian Weimer 2017-02-06 21:10:35 UTC
(In reply to George R. Goffe from comment #2)

> I would have no problem if you closed this bug but I'd like to suggest that
> if a user does something stupid like this, the kernel could issue a warning
> and NOT try to do FIPS like processing. NONE of my filesystems are encrypted.

I think part of the requirement of FIPS mode is that it may not silently transition to non-FIPS mode, so we can't do this.

The actual bug will be fixed in dracut.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1401444 ***