From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: The kernel Oopses when booting the FC3test3 install disc 1, apparently while probing for PS/2 mice. Here are the last 24 lines of on-screen output (hand-typed, since the system locks up hard afterwards): ---------------- drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.0:USB HID core driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010017 (2.6.8-1.541) EIP is at 0x0 eax: f7e62000 ebx: f7e62000 ecx: 00000000 edx: c03cdfbc esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: c0369d40 esp: c03cef94 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c03ce000 task=f7c518b0) Stack: c0290a72 c0369a40 c0369a40 c0369d40 00000000 00000000 c0292aca c03cdfbc f7e6e620 00000000 c03cdfbc 00000046 c0293541 c03cdfbc f7e6e6a0 04000001 00000000 c03cdfbc c01077b1 c03cdfa0 c039f600 c03ce000 0000000c c0107dae Call Trace: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Code: Bad EIP value. <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt ---------------- Motherboard is Asus P4S8X (Pentium 4, 2.53 GHz), connected to a Cybex KVM switchbox. I don't know if using a directly-connected keyboard/mouse changes anything. FC2 final installed and ran fine on this system. Problem doesn't occur with an HP OmniBook 2100. My workaround was to reboot and pass the "noprobe" option to the kernel. Installation was successful (although I had to hand-pick network driver modules), and the installed system booted successfully. Here are the relevant kernel boot messages that appeared around the Oops point (above) in the successfully-booted-installed-system case: ---------------- mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12 input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio1 serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0 ---------------- My mouse is not a wheel mouse as the message claimed above, but rather a simple HP 3-button PS/2 mouse. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.541 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot FC3test3 install disc 1 on system in question (see above). Actual Results: Installer kernel Oopses (see above). Expected Results: Installer kernel should not Oops, and should proceed to start the installer application.
Can you reproduce the Oops on the running system by running as root: /usr/sbin/kudzu -p -b psaux
Running "/usr/sbin/kudzu -p -b psaux" on the running installed system works fine (no Oops): ---------------- - class: OTHER bus: PSAUX detached: 0 driver: pcspkr desc: "PC Speaker" - class: MOUSE bus: PSAUX detached: 0 device: input/mice driver: generic3ps/2 desc: "ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse" - class: KEYBOARD bus: PSAUX detached: 0 driver: ignore desc: "AT Translated Set 2 keyboard" ---------------- Is there a similar command you'd like me to try from the bash console after successfully booting the installer with "noprobe", in case there's a difference in kernel builds between the install CD and the installed system?
Is this any better with the latest release candidate from http://testing.fedora.redhat.com/tree/ ?
Yes, much better. I downloaded "http://testing.fedora.redhat.com/tree/i386/iso/FC3-i386-disc1.iso" (dated "29-Oct-2004 12:31"), burned it to a CD, and booted it on the previously problematic system. The kernel and Anaconda boot successfully. Thanks for fixing this issue. (I didn't attempt to install based on the release candidate, but at least verified that the installer starts successfully.)
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
This bug has been automatically closed as part of a mass update. It had been in NEEDINFO state since July 2005. If this bug still exists in current errata kernels, please reopen this bug. There are a large number of inactive bugs in the database, and this is the only way to purge them. Thank you.