From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040706 Firefox/0.9.1 Description of problem: I have been unsuccessful loading the ntfs module for the last few kernel releases. 2.6.7-1.469 was the last one where it worked without problems, ever since it failed. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.7-1.492 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. compile ntfs module & install 2. reboot 3. Actual Results: ntfs module is not loaded Expected Results: ntfs module should load Additional info: NTFS driver 2.1.15 [Flags: R/O MODULE]. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000034 printing eip: 3ead17bf *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: nls_utf8 ntfs(U) dm_mod sd_mod usb_storage scsi_mod usblp ehci_hcd ohci_hcd button battery asus_acpi ac nvidia(U) ipv6 ext3 jbd CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<3ead17bf>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.7-1.492) EIP is at ntfs_fill_super+0x11d/0x60f [ntfs] eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00000092 esi: 3dfd246c edi: 3dfd252c ebp: 386ace30 esp: 381e3e8c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process mount (pid: 2344, threadinfo=381e3000 task=38694db0) Stack: 02309a10 00000000 35ae2000 385ddc34 386ace30 385ddc00 00000000 0216946b 31616468 00000100 35ae4000 fffffff4 35ae4a44 3ead8c00 00000000 0000007b 02349660 00000000 3dfbcc28 3ead8c00 3ead1cd0 35ae2000 3ead16a2 02169634 Call Trace: [<0216946b>] get_sb_bdev+0xe0/0x11c [<3ead1cd0>] ntfs_get_sb+0xe/0x11 [ntfs] [<3ead16a2>] ntfs_fill_super+0x0/0x60f [ntfs] [<02169634>] do_kern_mount+0x8a/0x13a [<02184839>] do_new_mount+0x61/0x90 [<0218534c>] do_mount+0x178/0x190 [<0215e824>] get_user_size+0x30/0x57 [<02185824>] sys_mount+0x121/0x1f9 Code: 8b 40 34 85 c0 74 2b 0f b7 80 9e 01 00 00 66 85 c0 74 1f 0f
This is not our problem. We do not supply the NTFS module, nor do we support problems when non-Fedora/RedHat modules are added to the kernel. You must go upstream or to the ntfs linux project for help.