Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 38538
nullpointer error during filesystem check
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:32:56 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) After a clean install of RedHat 7.1 on a P2@233Mhz, Asus MB, IBM 15GB HD, Riva128 (more hardware specs can be provided if required) the system performed a correct boot to KDE. It then blocked from some reason and a hard reset was required (no further information on the reason of the block). During the fschk of /home the system reports a nullpointer error and "tried to kill init". The system then freezes. The behaviour reoccurs after a clean reinstall. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. start the computer 2. 3. Actual Results: Screen dump of the nullpointer error with "tried to kill init" message Expected Results: fschk should have completed and the boot should have continued as it did the first time.
The most useful information for me at this time is "lspci" output. Or at least more information about the exact motherboard (which would allow me to get the same info) would be appreciated.
Since RedHat never reaches a state where I can input commands, I cannot run lspci. The MB is Asus P2L97. The system in an extended form (ZIP, CDWriter, etc) has run Windows including W2K without problems for over three years.
Do you have some sort of soundcard ?
I've switched from RedHat 7.1 to Suse 7.2. Installed and runs flawlessly. DHCP server, webserver, SMB. Got myself a new copy of RedHat7.1 which has been installed on another system and runs correctly on that system. Reinstalled that on my system. Similar problem: stuck somewhere in X, reboot, file system checks ok this time, after "INIT: entering runlevel: 5", it reports "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000d00, printing eip". In the EIP dump: "pmd entry c13d4000: 000000000000 ... pdm not present! Oops: 0002" and it is a gonner... Maybe this will help.
Yes, I do have a soundblaster 128 installed. I reinstalled RedHat 7.1 and not let it configure the soundcard (it is found during the hardware detection). Still crashing. Mandrake 8.0 also runs flawlessly. As I understand Mandrake is RedHat compatible. Hence I'm sticking to Mandrake for now.