Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 133122
kernel-2.6.8-1.521 error during shutdown
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:09:54 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: My laptop (IBM ThinkPad A22p) has been working nicely with FC2 for kernel versions up to and including kernel-2.6.7-1.494.2.2. With the upgrade to kernel-2.6.8-1.521, various problems have surfaced the most serious of which are: - kernel NULL pointer dereference during shutdown (100% reproducable) - Matlab R13/R14 will not run with this kernel - numerous kernel errors of the form: "kernel: Hw. address read/write mismap 0" Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.521 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install kernel-2.6.8-1.521 2. watch MatLAB R13/R14 fail to work 3. notice as the laptop hangs during shutdown Additional info: Why would a kernel version upgrade cause a user-space app like MatLAB to fail to work like this? It seems very odd to me but it is completely reproducable. And it happens on both my laptop (PIII) and desktop (Athlon XP) systems.
Created attachment 104085 [details] oops from /var/log/messages
mass update for old bugs: Is this still a problem with the 2.6.9 based update kernel ?
Fedora Core 2 has now reached end of life, and no further updates will be provided by Red Hat. The Fedora legacy project will be producing further kernel updates for security problems only. If this bug has not been fixed in the latest Fedora Core 2 update kernel, please try to reproduce it under Fedora Core 3, and reopen if necessary, changing the product version accordingly. Thank you.