From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task In idle task - not syncing Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot default 2. 3. Actual Results: Kernel Panic Expected Results: Boot Additional info: RH Linux 7.1 Deluxe/Intel (RH30000US) (RH30000US) Installed RedHat 7.1 from CD (purchased). Default installed the workstation. The motherboard is a Micro-Star 945D Pro version 1.0. There are two cpu's installed, two 72 GB ide drives and CDrom. When the system re-boots after install I get a kernel panic the info on the screen is below. It happens every time. It boots successfully with the UP kernel. ------------------------------------ Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at Virtual address 00000018 Printing EIP:00000018 pgd entry c0101000: 00000000 pmd entry c0101000: 00000000 ... pmd not present Oops: 0000 CPU:1 EIP: 0010:00000018 EFLAGS: 0010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: c0107290 ecx: 00000032 edx: c145c000 esi: c145c000 edi: c145c000 ebp: c0107290 esp: c145dfb0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process Swapper (pid:0, stackpage c145d000) Stack A lot to copy, but I can get it if it will help... Call trace: [<c0107342>] [<c0185859>] Code: Bad EIP Value Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task In idle task - not syncing
I think this is the same issue: I have a Digital Celebris, 64 megs memory, 2 "classic" 166 mhz Pentium chips, 64 megs mem. a 170 meg IDE (/boot) and two fast/wide SCSI drives on a Q-logic IPE SCSI card. I installed 7.1 (2.4.2-2 SMP) and it works like a champ. I updated to the 2.4.9-34 SMP kernel, and every reboot ends in a kernel panic ("Attempted to kill init!") 2.4.9-34 UP kernel always boots successfully. The displayed stack-frame: Oops: 000 Kernel 2.4.9-34smp CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0114457>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 EIP is at IO_APC_get_PCI_irq_vector [kernel] 0x17 eax: 00000000 ebx: c122ec00 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: 00000010 edi: 00000001 ebp: c1117fab esp: c1117f80 ds: 0018 es:0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1117000) Stack: 00000001 ffffffff c122ec00 00000010 00000001 c1117fab c02f49ad 00000000 00000001 00000000 0008e000 c1116000 c02effc0 c0105000 0008e000 c02f4621 00000000 c02d4cac 00000000 c0249cff c01b0e76 c1116000 c02f092b c0105288 Call Trace: [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0 [<co249cff>] .rodata.str1.1 [kernel] 0x11fa [<co1b0e76>] pci_init [kernel] 0x6 [<c0105288>] init [kernel] 0x28 [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0 [<c0105856>] kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26 [<c0105260>] init [kernel] 0x0 Code: 83 3c 90 ff 75 23 52 68 00 24 23 c0 e8 e8 52 00 00 8b 44 24 <0>Kernel panic: Atttempted to kill init! end stack frame
Update: I did some snooping around on Bugzilla, and found bug 63296 (viz: 7.3 RH) that sounds suspiciously like this one.... one guy put up a stack-frame that was almost the spittin' image of the one I entered above.... There are also some interesting proposed solutions/workarounds. Question: how many of these updated kernels would work with 7.1? (BTW) I originally tried installing 7.3 on this system and gave it up because it was so painful.... I back-rev'd to 7.1 just to see what was what. I may try going back to 7.3, if I can get the kernel they suggest... Jim
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