Bug 195386
Summary: | Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffff034 | ||||||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Marshall DeBerry <marsdeb> | ||||
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Dave Jones <davej> | ||||
Status: | CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> | ||||
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
Priority: | medium | ||||||
Version: | 5 | CC: | jonstanley, pfrields, wtogami | ||||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
Target Release: | --- | ||||||
Hardware: | i386 | ||||||
OS: | Linux | ||||||
Whiteboard: | MassClosed | ||||||
Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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Last Closed: | 2008-01-20 04:38:08 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Description
Marshall DeBerry
2006-06-14 22:42:14 UTC
does it happen without those extra modules being present ? The [#9] in the report above means this is the 9th oops too, so I'm guessing a bunch of others scrolled by. If you boot with boot_delay=100 (you may have to adjust the 100 to more/less), the speed text is output will be decreased, so you should be able to capture the first one (if you have a digital camera, just attach a pic of it to the bug) also booting with vga=791 will increase the number of lines of text able to fit on the screen. Yes, several screens/pages of do_page_fault scrolled by before stopping. This particularly problem is very intermittent--one can reboot several times with no problem, and then the freeze up or dump will start to happen. I'll definitely take the advice of using the delay=100 to see if I can get more detail. Also, this seemed to start happening with FC5 with the release of the new version of udev several months ago--it's just recently that it seems to start occuring more frequently. Upgraded to 2.6.17-1-2139 FC5 on 6/29/06. Now on boot, the following appears: <c0602996> do_page_fault +0x443/0x5ad <c06025537> do_page_fault+0x0/0x5ad <c04037df7> error_code+0x4f/0x54 <c0403079> show_trace_log_lvl + 0x93/0xed BUG: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000002 Printing EIP: c0403d79 *pdc = 00000000 Created attachment 131835 [details]
Linuxant Conexant HSF Modem driver to be compiled for current FC5
This is the curent gzip'ed tar file from Linxuant (www.linuxant.com) for the
Conexant HSF softmodem that was shipped with a number of Dell 45xx series
computers. To use, the tar files are extracted, and then a make install is
done, and the prompts are followed. This is the latest version, dated May 2,
2006.
While it is recognized that this is a "wrapper" type module that "taints" the
kernel, please keep in mind this is the only driver available for this modem,
ie, you're up the creek w/o paddle if you need to use a modem and FC5 with the
Conexant HSF series modems.
It appears that the Linuxant HSF modem driver is causing the NULL ponter derefernce error in 2.6.17-1-2139. Removing the driver module causes the error to go away. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.18-1.2200.fc5) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. In the last few updates, some users upgrading from FC4->FC5 have reported that installing a kernel update has left their systems unbootable. If you have been affected by this problem please check you only have one version of device-mapper & lvm2 installed. See bug 207474 for further details. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. If this bug has been fixed, but you are now experiencing a different problem, please file a separate bug for the new problem. Thank you. (this is a mass-close to kernel bugs in NEEDINFO state) As indicated previously there has been no update on the progress of this bug therefore I am closing it as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Please re-open if the issue still occurs for you and I will try to assist in its resolution. Thank you for taking the time to report the initial bug. If you believe that this bug was closed in error, please feel free to reopen this bug. |