Bug 55457

Summary: Kernel Panic on Compaq LTE 5280 (Laptop)
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Thomas Klein <redhat>
Component: kernelAssignee: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.2CC: alan
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Description Thomas Klein 2001-10-31 16:54:41 UTC
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Description of problem:
Booting vmlinuz fails with "Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt
handler! In interupt handler - not syncing"

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot "boot.img" from Disk
2. Return (or also text Return)
3. Wait for crash after loading vmlinuz
	

Additional info:

Comment 1 Brent Fox 2001-11-01 00:34:56 UTC
On a laptop, you should probably be using the pcmcia.img to boot from.  Does
that avoid the problem?

Comment 2 Thomas Klein 2001-11-01 15:28:09 UTC
I tried the installation also with the pcmcia.img, but it showed up the same problem.

Comment 3 Brent Fox 2001-11-01 23:54:46 UTC
This seems to be a kernel problem.  Changing component.

Comment 4 Arjan van de Ven 2001-11-02 10:04:37 UTC
is there anything before the "aieee" line ?

Comment 5 Thomas Klein 2001-11-05 10:24:29 UTC
I do not get always the same messages.
What i get also is "CPU#0: Machine Check Exception: 0x 107000 (type 0x    9)."

Now i have got this (after removing the cdrom drive):
<0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task - not syncing

I cannot see all messages because the system hangs after booting and
shift-pageup does not work any more.

Comment 6 Arjan van de Ven 2001-11-05 10:29:17 UTC
"CPU#0: Machine Check Exception: 0x 107000 (type 0x    9)." 
usually means that your cpu tells you it's bust ;(
However, some machines have a wiring mistake on the motherboard and trigger this
when there's not really a fault, you can add "nomce" to the kernel commandline
(eg type "linux nomce" on the syslinux prompt) to circumvent this.

Comment 7 Alan Cox 2001-11-05 11:00:02 UTC
Compaq 586 laptops show spurious mce's. Boot with "nomce" as a boot option and
it should not show any more strange MCE errors. The "nomce" should not be needed
in the errata kernel either.

Alan


Comment 8 Thomas Klein 2001-11-05 11:36:57 UTC
"linux nomce" on the syslinux prompt does help!!!
Now X crashs, but text mode does it.
Thanks for your help.


Comment 9 Alan Cox 2001-11-05 11:39:32 UTC
Excellent

If after you grab the kernel errata X still crashes stick in a seperate bug
report for that.