From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows 98; Win 9x 4.90) Description of problem: After (multiple) fresh installs of the 7.1 disks both ones that I created off the internet and a set that I bought. I get completely through the install the reboot the system. After pages and pages of either memory or register contents in the form of "[<hhhhhhhh>]" where "h" is a hex digit, I get a message: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference @ virtual address 00000000c printing eip: c01132f6 pgd entry c0101000: 00000000000 pmd entry c0101000: 00000000000 ppmd not present Oops: 000 cpu: 0 Eip 0010: [<c01132f6>] Eflags: 00010002 The system is an emachines eTower 366c with: Cyrix M II-366 processor 128 Mbytes ram ATI Rage IIc 3D agp w/4mbyte sdram Crystal CS4235 3D audio 3.2 Gb HDD 32x CD ROM system board is a TriGem MB w/ builtin video & audio How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install system (workstation or server or custom) 2.Boot from HDD or Floppy 3.System begins to boot then starts to dump registers or memory Actual Results: System eventually hangs Expected Results: System startup Additional info:
Any idea how far the boot gets before the errors happen ?
I am not real sure how far it gets before it hangs. The first 2 lines that show vmlinuz and something else with the "."'s behind it do get loaded. My eyes are just not fast enough after that. The screen finls with pages of memory or register dumps (seemingly repeating). Is there some way to stop the output at the console (I have tried ctrl z, ctrl q, and some others). This also fails with Mandrake 8.0 after a clean install as well. The system is proported to work with Linux.
I have a similar problem, but the system runs for a while before the null pointer deference, sometimes for hours and sometimes minutes. I have had the same problem with both the 2.4.2 and 2.4.3 kernels. Here is the messages entries: Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: printing eip: Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: c0141aa8 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: pgd entry c294c000: 0000000000000000 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: pmd entry c294c000: 0000000000000000 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: ... pmd not present! Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Oops: 0002 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: EIP: 0010:[prune_dcache+40/352] Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0141aa8>] Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: EFLAGS: 00010216 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: eax: c023991c ebx: c14c4400 ecx: c110fe6c edx: 00000000 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: esi: c15c4360 edi: c15c4360 ebp: 000008af esp: c1173f70 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, stackpage=c1173000) Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000004 c012a026 c1027ae8 0000011a c1172000 00000010 0000011a Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: 00000004 00000004 00000059 00000004 c0141e7a 00000b05 00010f00 c012a2ae Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: 00000004 00000004 00010f00 c023b3a0 00000004 0008e000 c012a340 00000004 Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Call Trace: [refill_inactive_scan+150/256] [shrink_dcache_memory+42/80] [do_try_to_free_pages+94/128] [kswapd+112/272] [do_linuxrc+0/208] Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Call Trace: [<c012a026>] [<c0141e7a>] [<c012a2ae>] [<c012a340>] [<c0105000>] Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: [do_linuxrc+0/208] [kernel_thread+38/48] [kswapd+0/272] Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: [<c0105000>] [<c0105576>] [<c012a2d0>] Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Sep 1 04:02:37 cc1082620-a kernel: Code: 89 02 89 1b 89 5b 04 8d 73 e0 b8 03 00 00 00 0f b3 43 e4 19 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: CPU: 0 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: EIP: 0010:[do_exit+449/464] Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0116d31>] Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c17fc000 edx: 00000000 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: esi: c1172000 edi: 0000000b ebp: 00000002 esp: c1173e4c Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, stackpage=c1173000) Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: Stack: c02040ad c0207b9c 00000002 00000001 00000001 c0141aa8 c1173f3c c01115ee Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: 0000000b c1173f3c 00000002 c0207aba 00000000 c0207b95 c0141aa8 c0207b85 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: c0207b6a 00000000 c02bc4c0 c1172000 c1172000 00000010 c02bc480 00030001 Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: Call Trace: [stext_lock+7501/19392] [error_table+3196/17368] [prune_dcache+40/352] [do_page_fault+846/1200] [error_table+2970/17368] Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: Call Trace: [<c02040ad>] [<c0207b9c>] [<c0141aa8>] [<c01115ee>] [<c0207aba>] Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: [error_table+3189/17368] [prune_dcache+40/352] [error_table+3173/17368] [error_table+3146/17368] [ide_end_request+127/144] [ide_do_request+659/736] Sep 1 04:02:39 cc1082620-a kernel: [<c0207b95>] [<c0141aa8>] [<c0207b85>] [<c0207b6a>] [<c018707f>] [<c0188563>] It looks to me like it's failing on a page fault, but it may be a module problem that looks like a kernel problem.
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