From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030709 Description of problem: Boot output appears normal, until a kernel stack trace appears, apparently due to some sort of crash (see attachments). This is repeated a number of times, from a number of processes, during boot. Sometimes the system appears to complete the boot sequence, and sometimes it hangs. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.21-1.1931.2.349.2.2.ent How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install taroon beta on my Athlon XP-based HP Pavilion a110.uk 2. Reboot Actual Results: See description. Expected Results: System should have booted normally. Additional info: The machine has the AC97 sound hardware which is noted in the release notes as causing problems, but the release notes only mention Intel chipsets (this machine has a VIA chipset). I've tried disabling the sound hardware in the BIOS, which is spotted by kudzu but doesn't fix the problem. Machine has two CD drives - a CD-ROM and a CD-RW - in addition to two IDE hard drives. System runs RH9 with no problems.
Created attachment 93336 [details] Boot output of the machine. This is the output from when the machine just booted.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101040 ***
The original bug report is #99507, so I just reopened this temporarily to reassign the duplicate designation. The problem has been resolved with a change to the Athlon-specific prefetch routine to test for NULL addresses. The change is applied by linux-2.4.18-smallpatches.patch to include/asm-i386/processor.h, and will be incorporated into any kernel version 2.4.21-1.1931.2.364 or later (and will thus be part of Taroon B2). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 99507 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.