Description of problem: The kernel oopses occasionally during normal usage. Not always noticable as a user, sometimes the computer feels frozen for a while. (Dell Inspiron 500m - Intel Centrino w/ 855 chipset, Intel graphics ) [drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 0: [drm] Initialized i915 1.1.0 20040405 on minor 1: mtrr: base(0xf0020000) is not aligned on a size(0x800000) boundary Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000978 printing eip: 22b16619 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] Modules linked in: i915 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 sunrpc md5 ipv6 ds dm_mod button battery asus_acpi ac joydev hci_usb bluetooth yenta_socket pcmcia_core uhci_hcd ehci_hcd snd_intel8x0m snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc gameport snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore e100 mii ext3 jbd CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<22b16619>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00013246 (2.6.8-1.584) EIP is at i915_irq_install+0xcb/0x213 [i915] eax: 00000000 ebx: 22b207a0 ecx: 22b207dc edx: 1a3f6000 esi: 22b20030 edi: 22b207a0 ebp: 22b207dc esp: 1a3f6f2c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process X (pid: 4329, threadinfo=1a3f6000 task=1a3e12b0) Stack: 00000000 1a3f6f6c fee9c3b8 00000000 00000008 fee9c3b0 1a3f6f64 40086414 0215d114 22b207a0 22b20030 219bca40 40086414 22b1685c 00000002 0000000b 22b207a0 22b15e43 fee9c3b0 22b167ff 19c9e240 1989a11c 22b1fec0 40086414 Call Trace: [<0215d114>] get_user_size+0x30/0x57 [<22b1685c>] i915_control+0x5d/0x80 [i915] [<22b15e43>] i915_ioctl+0xe3/0xef [i915] [<22b167ff>] i915_control+0x0/0x80 [i915] [<021786d3>] sys_ioctl+0x296/0x337 [<02163e5c>] sys_write+0x3c/0x62 Code: <3>Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/rwsem.h:43 in_atomic():0[expected: 0], irqs_disabled():1 [<0211c809>] __might_sleep+0x7d/0x88 [<0215c9c2>] rw_vm+0x216/0x482 [<22b165ee>] i915_irq_install+0xa0/0x213 [i915] [<22b165ee>] i915_irq_install+0xa0/0x213 [i915] [<0215d114>] get_user_size+0x30/0x57 [<22b165ee>] i915_irq_install+0xa0/0x213 [i915] [<0210682b>] show_registers+0x109/0x15e [<02106a2f>] die+0x14a/0x228 [<021192d2>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x50d [<021192d2>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x50d [<02119683>] do_page_fault+0x3b1/0x50d [<22b16619>] i915_irq_install+0xcb/0x213 [i915] [<021c2370>] avc_has_perm+0x3f/0x49 [<021192d2>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x50d [<22b16619>] i915_irq_install+0xcb/0x213 [i915] [<0215d114>] get_user_size+0x30/0x57 [<22b1685c>] i915_control+0x5d/0x80 [i915] [<22b15e43>] i915_ioctl+0xe3/0xef [i915] [<22b15e43>] i915_ioctl+0xe3/0xef [i915] [<22b167ff>] i915_control+0x0/0x80 [i915] [<021786d3>] sys_ioctl+0x296/0x337 [<02163e5c>] sys_write+0x3c/0x62 Bad EIP value. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.584 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Same here [tm]. The exact same oops happens to me - It happens when the xorg server starts up after a reboot.
This is no longer the case with my laptop. I did an upgrade to FC3T3 and now it works. [xyz@ ~]$ rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-utils-2.4-13.1.28 kernel-2.6.8-1.607 [xyzr@ ~]$ rpm -qa | grep xorg-x11 xorg-x11-xauth-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-twm-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-font-utils-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-tools-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGL-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-xfs-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-devel-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-Mesa-libGLU-6.8.1-4 xorg-x11-6.8.1-4
This has not occured for two weeks with 1.607 and up - closing.