Description of problem: Newly installed fc3 with all updates as of 2004-12-22. In run-level 3 started an slattach, ifconfig, attempted to use the resultant serial port, then killed -9 the job. The hardware is a new IBM xSeries 306. Immediately got the following screen (this info is typed in, not copy-and-paste): EFLAGS: 00010202 (2.6.9-1.681_FC3smp) EIP is at sl_tx_timeout+0x40/0xd3 [slip] eax: 00000000 ebx: 21776400 ecx: 023b3fbc edx: 022f1841 exi: 21776640 ebi: 21776640 ebp: 023b3fcc esp: 023b3fa4 ds: 007b es: 007b ss; 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=023b3000 task=0230aa60) Stack: 022f1841 21776400 02278128 03407760 02278181 022f1841 21776400 21776400 02127254 00000246 023b3fcc 023b3fcc 0000000a 00000001 0237b88 0000000a 00000000 02123eb8 02379f94 00000046 023a4184 0046a007 021802a9 Call Trace: [<02278128>] dev_watchdog+0x0/0x91 [<02278181>] dev_watchdog+0x59/0x91 [<02127254>] run_timer_softirq+0x123/0x145 [<02123eb8>] __do_softirq+0x4c/0xb1 [<021082a9>] do_softirq+0x4f/0x56 ========================= [<021162fb>] smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0xd9/0xdd [<021040e5>] mwait_idle+0x33/0x42 [<0210409d>] cpu_idle+0x26/0x3b [<0237a784>] start_kernel+0x194/0x198 Code: 01 0f 84 aa 00 00 00 8b 43 24 8b 73 64 a8 82 0f 84 9c 00 00 00 a1 a0 c8 30 02 2b 43 4c 2d 20 4e 00 00 0f 88 89 00 00 00 0b 46 04 <8b> 50 04 ff 92 d4 00 00 00 85 c0 75 0b 83 7e 2c 00 b8 30 25 ab <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel: kernel-2.6.9-1.681_Fc3smp slattach: net-tools-1.60-37 udev: udev-039019.FC3.6 How reproducible: Could not reproduce. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start kernel in run-level 3 (I set it both in /boot/grub/ and /etc/inittab) 2. Login as normal user, su to root. 3. Execute "/sbin/slattach -p slip -s 115200 /dev/tty0 &" 4. Noted via statserial that CTS was not asserted. 4. Switched to another window, logged in, and attempted to send many packets to port. 5. kill -9 of the above pid Actual results: See kernel panic dump Expected results: System to kill job and continue processing. Additional info: If I did a startx, started a terminal (in fvwm 2.5.10, if it matters), then did the slattach in the foreground and hit CTRL-C, then I lost all keyboard functionality until I exited X every time. However, I could not reproduce the kernel panic.
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