Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 47397
Kernel panic and other errors while rebooting
Last modified: 2008-05-01 11:38:00 EDT
Description of Problem: I was just doing nothing with my computer, so the screensaver was on when I noticed the screen was frozen. Nor the keyboard neither the mouse worked. Only choice left: reset. I did it. When it booted again I got a Kernel Panic: Attempted to kill the idle task In idle: not syncing. This time I had to unplug the computer. After 5 minutes I tried again. In many trials I got hundreds of errors. These: -After checking /root (passed), it stopped checking /home (failed) and trying to repair it with fsck gave no result (when the computer tried to reboot, it freezes again) -After checking both /root and /home (passed), it stopped at sshd saying: /etc/rc.d/rc line 117 951 segmentation fault $i start -At the end of the startup, black screen and message: Id "x" respawning too fast disabled for 5 minutes (and waiting produces the same message again: I had to unplug) -Inside KDE, trying to open anything gave an error related to inode and in a few seconds X was disabled again for 5 minutes. Since somebody tells me the Oops is important, I noticed that when this appeared it was 0002. If this helps.. After a couple of hours I tried and I was succesfull. Now it seems to be everything ok. How Reproducible: It happened to me before a screen frozen, but after a reset it was ok. So I think this is not easily reproducible. But I confess I have no idea. Steps to Reproduce: 1. No idea, again 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results: Additional Information:
Hmm this smells like either some hardware fault or a kernel bug; the later will be very hard to track down if it doesn't happen again. Since you say that all is well now, I will make this bug "NEEDINFO" and hope that you will open it again if this happens again. If it does happen again, could you check the /var/log/messages file afterwards and see if there is an oops-message in that. I hope you system stays stable though ;)