Bug 796704

Summary: panic
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: GeoffLeach <geoffleach.gl>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: urgent Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 16CC: gansalmon, geoffleach.gl, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Hardware: x86_64   
OS: Linux   
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Description Flags
lshw output
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abrt oops #1
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abrt oops #2
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abrt oops #3
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abrt oops #4 none

Description GeoffLeach 2012-02-23 14:18:56 UTC
Created attachment 565310 [details]
lshw output

Description of problem:kernel panic
last line: kernel panic: switching back to text mode


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-PAE-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686

How reproducible:
boot

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:


Expected results:


Additional info:
no abrt info provided
kernel-PAE-3.2.7-1.fc16.i686
running 3.1.0-7.fc16.i686.PAE
running 32-bit fedora on 64-bit system

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2012-02-23 14:33:46 UTC
We're going to need to see the backtrace in order to do anything.  Can you boot with the 'rhgb' and 'quiet' options removed from the grub entry for this kernel and see if you get more output?  If you can't get it from a file or log on the machine, a digital picture is better than nothing.

Comment 2 GeoffLeach 2012-02-23 14:44:22 UTC
There was a ton of output on screen, but with the kernel panic, there was no way to capture. I'll retry with  'rhgb' and 'quiet' removed.  Is there no way to push the output to a file?

Comment 3 Josh Boyer 2012-02-23 16:14:09 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> There was a ton of output on screen, but with the kernel panic, there was no
> way to capture. I'll retry with  'rhgb' and 'quiet' removed.  Is there no way
> to push the output to a file?

It really depends on when/where the panic is.  From the little information in the bug, it sounds like you can't even login after booting so I really doubt a kernel that broken is going to be able to write to a file on disk.

If the machine has a serial console, you could hook that up and set it as the console on the kernel command line.  Then you could capture the output on whatever machine you're using to read the console.  Serial ports are becoming increasingly rare though.

If the output is scrolling off the screen too rapidly to take a digital picture, you might be able to slow it down with 'pause_on_oops=30' on the kernel command line.  That will pause it for 30 seconds.

Comment 4 GeoffLeach 2012-02-23 17:18:41 UTC
Did not reproduce. I'll try again after system rests overnight :-)
"Keep your powder dry and the digicam handy!"

Comment 5 GeoffLeach 2012-02-24 22:27:48 UTC
Created attachment 565686 [details]
abrt oops #1

Comment 6 GeoffLeach 2012-02-24 22:28:39 UTC
Created attachment 565687 [details]
abrt oops #2

Comment 7 GeoffLeach 2012-02-24 22:29:23 UTC
Created attachment 565688 [details]
abrt oops #3

Comment 8 GeoffLeach 2012-02-24 22:30:18 UTC
These abrt logs are better than the digicam -- which was a complete failure!

Comment 9 GeoffLeach 2012-02-25 14:16:21 UTC
Created attachment 565757 [details]
abrt oops #4

"Cold" start. Re-boot on warm system worked fine.

Comment 10 Dave Jones 2012-02-27 15:52:55 UTC
ok, abrt actually filed these for you, so I'll dupe this bug against that one, as it has all the info there.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 797318 ***