Bug 189925

Summary: RHEL4 kernel crash on reboot
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Reporter: James Cornell <sparcdr>
Component: kernelAssignee: Peter Martuccelli <peterm>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Version: 4.0CC: jbaron, jfeeney
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Description James Cornell 2006-04-25 20:00:42 UTC
Description of problem:

Kernel crashes on reboot on a Dell Dimension 2400.  Outputs large stack trace, then kernel panics.  
Possible ACPI bug suspected.

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

2.6.9-34.EL #1

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Reboot
  
Actual results:

esi: c14da980   edi: 00995ff4   ebp: dd9c5000   esp: dd9c5a0
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process reboot (pid: 3743, threadinfo=dd9c5000 task=d5897220
Stack:  df6bd844 c0377f08 c024d87a dd9c5000 01234567 c0131c43 c102e6a0 00928a80
        d67ebba0 00000001 00928a80 d67ebba0 c0158a3a 00000000
        de90a4a0 df265000 df0018b0 d5897220 d67ebba0 c011a9a5 00000000

Call Trace:
  [<c024d87a>] device_shutdown+0x55/0x72
  [<c0131c43>] sys_reboot+0x16d/0x3e1
  [<c02edd88>] handle_mm_fault+0xd5/0x1fd
  [<c02b6a0b>] do_page_fault+0x1ac/0x4dc
  [<c018565c>] udp_ioctl+0x0/0x19d
  [<c0187876>] dev_ioctl+0x42/0x48c
  [<c0181ca7>] destroy_inode+0x3d/0x4c
  [<c0187876>] iput+0x5f/0x61
  [<c0181ca7>] dput+0x33/0x423
  [<c01699c6>] __fput+0xc9/0xee
  [<c016825a>] flip_close+0x59/0x5f
  [<c0311443>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: a8 0c 74 07 c6 83 a3 00 00 00 30 f6 86 f0 01 00 00 01 74 07 c6 83 a0 00 00
b6 83 83 00 00 00 0c 04 88 83 83 83 00 00
 <0)Fatal exception: panic in 5 seconds
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception

Expected results:

Clean reboot without stack trace debug or kernel panic

Additional info:

Comment 4 Brian Maly 2008-10-31 07:57:56 UTC
How is this system being rebooted? Just running the 'reboot' command?


Can someone try each of these boot args, one at a time, and see if reboot starts working properly with any of them:

reboot=w
reboot=c
reboot=b
reboot=h

Comment 5 James Cornell 2008-10-31 14:45:47 UTC
It was due to a buggy APIC controller but seems to have been fixed in 2.6.16 or so.  I do not have that machine anymore unfortunately.

Comment 7 Peter Martuccelli 2009-05-21 13:08:28 UTC
Closing out as wontfix as we do not have access to any hw exhibiting the problem.