Bug 487441

Summary:	Kernel panic on boot when PNY 6200 GeForce 6 (nvidia) graphics card enabled
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	M Frost <minor.frost>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	kernel-maint, minor.frost
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description M Frost 2009-02-26 00:09:55 UTC

Description of problem:

Fedora 10 installed and working with on-board graphics card. Installed PNY card and enable through BIOS. Boot of exits with last line "Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686

How reproducible:
Every time with the new card enabled

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot
2.
3.
  
Actual results:
Kernel panic

Expected results:
Boot to Fedora-10

Additional info:
Hardware:
HP d230
BIOS at 1.11 or upgraded to latest 1.14
onboard Intel graphics (run as vesa at present)
PNY 6200 GeForce 6 (nvidia), PCI interface

Boot does not reach the Fedora-10 new graphics boot.

Removing "quiet" from the kernel boot provide more information,
showing 100+ lines before they disappear because the kernel then
displays several backtraces, the last is for swapper which says:

BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper/1/0x10000001
Modules linked in:
PID: 1, comm: swapper Tainted: G     D     2.6.27.15-170.2.24.fc10.i686 #1
 [<c042af6d>] __schedule_buf+0x5f/0x66
 [<c06a8d4f>] schedule+0x9f/0x70d
 [<c0406f63>] ? do_softirq+0xbe/0xdb
 [<c0404cd7>] ? restore_nocheck_notrace+0x0/0xe
 ...
 [<c040590b>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

I have not found a log file in which this information is logged, so it is entered from reading the screen.

Comment 1 M Frost 2009-03-07 15:21:12 UTC

The AGP slot was empty. I have since obtained an AGP card, with both the PCI card and the AGP card installed, either of the cards functions correctly. The problem seems to be the presence of PCI graphics card without an AGP card installed.

Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-18 09:52:48 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Zapper 2009-12-18 08:03:18 UTC

Fedora 10 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2009-12-17. Fedora 10 is 
no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further 
security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug.

If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of 
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