Machine booted up fine. On starting a X session (so, being prodded by hal/g-v-m, presumably): scsi13 : SBP-2 IEEE-1394 scsi 13:0:0:0: CD-ROM _NEC DVD_RW ND-2500A 1.06 PQ: 0 ANSI: 0 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy sr 13:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr1 sr 13:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 5 fw_core: created new fw device fw4 (3 config rom retries) audit(1171042113.212:1114): audit_pid=0 old=1925 by auid=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0 general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP last sysfs file: /class/drm/card0/dev CPU 1 Modules linked in: nfs lockd nfs_acl i915 drm netconsole autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack nfnetlink ipt_REJECT iptable_filter ip_tables xt_tcpudp ip6t_REJECT ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables cpufreq_ondemand dm_multipath video sbs i2c_ec dock button battery asus_acpi backlight ac ipv6 lp fw_sbp2 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm fw_ohci fw_core parport_pc i2c_i801 ata_generic snd_timer parport serio_raw snd i2c_core pcspkr iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support soundcore e1000 snd_page_alloc shpchp sr_mod cdrom sg dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_mod pata_marvell ahci libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.20-1.2922.fc7 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff881ad1cb>] [<ffffffff881ad1cb>] :fw_core:fw_core_handle_response+0xab/0x120 RSP: 0018:ffff81003ee3be60 EFLAGS: 00010006 RAX: 000000000000ffc1 RBX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b5b RCX: 0000000000000168 RDX: 6b6b6b6b6b6b6b6b RSI: ffff81003ee96820 RDI: ffff81001c473010 RBP: ffff81003ee3beb0 R08: 0000000000000002 R09: 0000000000000001 R10: ffffffff881ad168 R11: ffff81003c219150 R12: 000000000000000d R13: ffff81003c218470 R14: 00000000ffc10000 R15: ffff81003c2199c0 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff81003ee050a0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000641008 CR3: 000000002baa2000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffff81003ee34000, task ffff81003ee96100) Stack: ffff8100026274c0 ffff81003c218000 ffc0352000000001 0000000000000202 0000ffc13ee3bea0 ffff81003c2199a0 ffff81003c218000 0000000000000009 0000000000000001 0000000000000008 ffff81003ee3bee0 ffffffff881ba29d Call Trace: <IRQ> [<ffffffff881ba29d>] :fw_ohci:ar_context_tasklet+0x99/0xfe [<ffffffff802915f7>] tasklet_action+0x5e/0xb2 [<ffffffff80211ba6>] __do_softirq+0x5f/0xe3 [<ffffffff8025d2ac>] call_softirq+0x1c/0x28 [<ffffffff8026bdfc>] do_softirq+0x39/0x9f [<ffffffff802914cd>] irq_exit+0x4e/0x50 [<ffffffff8026bfb0>] do_IRQ+0x14e/0x170 [<ffffffff80255c77>] mwait_idle+0x0/0x50 [<ffffffff8025c666>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xf <EOI> [<ffffffff80260f3e>] __sched_text_start+0xafe/0xb36 [<ffffffff80255cbd>] mwait_idle+0x46/0x50 [<ffffffff802481e1>] enter_idle+0x22/0x24 [<ffffffff802483dc>] cpu_idle+0xa1/0xc4 [<ffffffff80275c70>] start_secondary+0x46e/0x47d Code: 48 8b 53 10 0f 18 0a 48 8b 45 b8 48 8d 7b 10 48 83 c0 28 48 RIP [<ffffffff881ad1cb>] :fw_core:fw_core_handle_response+0xab/0x120 RSP <ffff81003ee3be60> <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
This bug should be fixed in 1.2987.fc7 or later.