From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: Kernel paniced on shutdown. Error message copied by hand: kernel panic - not syncing: fs/proc/generic.c:521: spin_lock (fs/file_table.c:c034aa10) already locked by fs/file_table.c/204 Caps lock and scroll lock lights were flashing. magic sysreq didn't do anything (it was enabled via sysctl). There was nothing in the logs about the panic, but the sysklogd shutdown message was present so the oops happened at some point after that. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.724_FC3 How reproducible: Hasn't happened before, and this is a desktop which gets shut down daily. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Selected logout => shut down from gnome menu 2. Waited Actual Results: Kernel panic Expected Results: System should have powered off
Under 2.6.10-1.770_FC3 the same message: | kernel panic - not syncing: fs/proc/generic.c:521: spin_lock | (fs/file_table.c:c034aa10) already locked by fs/file_table.c/204 As I remember its hapen during execution of '/etc/rc6.d/K90network' when downing lo interface. Mainboard is Gigabyte GA-7NF-RZ (bios up2dated, nforce2, using integrated network and audio).
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Havne't seen this for a while