From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040217 Galeon/1.3.13 Description of problem: The latest 2.6.3-1.110 (from Rawhide) doesn't boot on a IBM thinkpad T30 (all the previous releases worked). Passing the option acpi=off makes the system boot again. Here's the output (from serial console log): drivers/acpi/ec.c:357: spin_is_locked on uninitialized spinlock c1562854. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 80314ba0 printing eip: c01d8201 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c01d8201>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010046 EIP is at acpi_os_read_memory+0x25/0x53 eax: c0314ba0 ebx: 00000008 ecx: c1577f48 edx: c0314ba0 esi: 00000008 edi: c0314ba0 ebp: dff4e938 esp: c1577f20 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process events/0 (pid: 3, threadinfo=c1576000 task=c1578cc0) Stack: c1577f48 c1577f48 c01e323b 00000008 00000282 00000282 c1562820 00000282 c15622a8 c01eef98 00000000 33323130 37363534 42413938 46454443 c15622a8 00000297 c01d84ce c15622b0 c0136f11 c01d84c2 c1576000 ffffffff ffffffff Call Trace: [<c01e323b>] acpi_hw_low_level_read+0x4b/0x98 [<c01eef98>] acpi_ec_gpe_query+0xea/0x1a5 [<c01d84ce>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0xc/0x15 [<c0136f11>] worker_thread+0x21a/0x31d [<c01d84c2>] acpi_os_execute_deferred+0x0/0x15 [<c01205a7>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc [<c01205a7>] default_wake_function+0x0/0xc [<c0136cf7>] worker_thread+0x0/0x31d [<c013aac2>] kthread+0x64/0x8c [<c013aa5e>] kthread+0x0/0x8c [<c01091d5>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 0f b6 82 00 00 00 c0 88 01 eb 1e 0f b7 82 00 00 00 c0 66 89 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.3-1.110 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install 2.6.3-1.110 2. Boot 3. Oops Additional info:
Still present in 2.6.3-1.116
ah, this has been known about for a while. there's an ugly fix for it in tonights kernel, but this needs fixing properly at some point. (triage folks: I think there's an open bugzilla on this already.)
*** Bug 117065 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 117094 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 117244 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
should be fixed in rawhide; please confirm
It's fixed.
*** Bug 118150 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***