From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322) Description of problem: I am getting frequent kernel panics on several Dell Optiplex GX260 SF (small form factor) computers running with 2GB of memory each. I am currently running Fedora Core 2 with kernel 2.6.6-1.435.i686. I was getting panics frequently on older versions of the kernel running the older Fedora Core 1 also. I am not certain what is causing the panics and really need some suggestions on how to resolve the problem. I have taken digital camera pictures of 5 different systems that have had a panic and I will try to attach them to this bug report. I do not know what these errors mean or what is causing the panic. I would really appreciate any suggestions or fixes for this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.6-1.435.i686 How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Systems run for awhile but eventually seem to panic. 2. 3. Additional info:
Created attachment 101484 [details] panic digital camera picture computer 1
Created attachment 101485 [details] panic digital camera picture computer 2
Created attachment 101486 [details] panic digital camera picture computer 3
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Created attachment 101488 [details] panic digital camera picture computer 5
I'm also having this problem. Some time after using the system (sometimes even during boot, sometimes it takes 1 hour) it crashes. If it's in console mode, it displays a message like that one attached in Additional Comment #4. FC2 didn't used to freeze. The only critical changes I remember I did to the system was an up2date and a kernel upgrade (to kernel-smp-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.i686.rpm). But i've already tried to downgrade the kernel to FC2 default (in CD1) and the system is still unstable. I'll reinstall the system and update it again and pay attention to every change I make and the effects it causes on the system.
Can someone familiar with the kernel panic messages give an idea what these panics below are attributed to? I have seen no updates on this bug nor any suggestions.
The latest Fedora Core 2 kernel 2.6.7-1.494.2.2 still has kernel panic issues with these Dell Optiplex GX260 small form factor PCs. Further testing is showing that Redhat Enterprise 3 with kernel 2.4.21-15.0.4.EL is stable so far (last 2 days) on 12 of the GX260 PCs. To me, this is pointing to a kernel issue with Fedora Core 2. I can add more screen shots if this will help, but it looks like no one is really looking into this problem so far, so it doesn't seem to matter.
We have resolved these kernel panics. It appears we had incompatible memory in these Dell Optiplex GX260s. We replaced all the memory, and the kernel panic problems seem to have gone away. We have not had any panics since the memory was replaced (4 days now). In case anyone else gets a lot of panics, try replacing the memory.