toyed around for many hours (~10) - Then I quit X, and issued "shutdown -h now" from runlevel 3. Kernel Oops'ed. Attaching various info.
Created attachment 100168 [details] various info output of /var/log/messages lspci -n lspci -vvv dmesg
Please try to reproduce without the nvidia binary only kernel module linked into the kernel. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 73733 ***
I explicitly told that this happens from runlevel 3 to avoid confusing you with the nvidia module. And it happens without the nvidia binary only kernel module as well. I get thousands of "vt: argh, driver_data is NULL !" before it gives up doing anything more. I rather thought this might have to do with http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.1/0409.html Why do you mean it could be nvidia related?
i see this race condition on and off, in particular after longer sessions. But i wonder if there might be a workaround: I have not yet seen it happen if I first "exit" console as my own user, then log in as root, and run "/sbin/shutdown -h now" from there, instead. (instead of from after a "su" which i usually do)
mass update for old bugs: Is this still a problem with the 2.6.9 based update kernel ?
This is still an issue under FC3, and I've updated the kernel to 2.6.10. I initially tried to manually patch the 2.6.10 kernel to include the patch detailed in: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0402.1/0409.html but I noticed the patch was already committed to the kernel. One way I've been able to recreate the issue is by automatically logging in as root (runlevel 3 is the default) then doing a shutdown/reboot. *** Take note I did this for a system booting with NFS root so I could modify the filesystem from the NFS server. You won't be able to boot into your system if you make the mods on a live drive. You've been warned! # modify /etc/inittab 1:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty --autologin root tty1 # at the end of /root/.bashrc do a shutdown /sbin/shutdown -r now
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