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Created attachment 503451 [details] Picture of the error Description of problem: When booting 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.i686 or 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686, the system spawns a 'BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request' error. With kernel 2.6.35.13-91.fc14.i686 (running on Fedora15!), everything works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): failing: 2.6.38.7-30.fc15.i686 and 2.6.38.6-27.fc15.i686 How reproducible: Everytime I try to boot the fc15-kernel, it hangs. Steps to Reproduce: 1. reboot the system 2. 3. Actual results: The error is seen on the attached picture (unable to copy paste, or use abrt, unfortunately) Expected results: A normal booted system. Additional info: It's a Lenovo T400 Thinkpad laptop. Output of lspci: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller (rev 07) 00:03.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PT IDER Controller (rev 07) 00:03.3 Serial controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset AMT SOL Redirection (rev 07) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82567LM Gigabit Network Connection (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M-E LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Mobility Radeon HD 3400 Series 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Ultimate N WiFi Link 5300 04:00.0 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Turbo Memory Controller (rev 11) 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba) 15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04) 15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21) 15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11) 15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11) If any additional information is needed, please let me know!
Created attachment 504672 [details] First part of the traceback Have a similar problem. Attached the image. I have a lenovo w500. In my case the issue presents itself in the majority of bootups, but not all.
Created attachment 504673 [details] Second part of the traceback I also installed f15 on a lenovo n200 and it does not show this issue. In case it is relevant : I selected minimum installation (I only have 190 packages installed).
I updated to kernel-2.6.38.8-32.fc15.x86_64 and stopped seeing this issue. It now dies after and has no 'radeon' in the message.
Agreed, it's intermittent! It happens to me about 9/10 times on my T500 (after that I try and leave it running as long as possible and only put it to sleep). It must be a race-condition of some kind and sometimes the good guys win.
I am also seeing this bug on my Dell Vostro. It occurs as far back as kernel-2.6.38-0.rc5.git1.1.fc15 on x86_64, but I can't try any farther back (easily) since it's not packaged.
Also, it seems like I can run Ubuntu 11.04 live ISO without issue, which apparently uses 2.6.38.8.
Had a similar problem on a ASUS B43J. First (cold) boot on the XFCE live CD OOPS'ed on modprobe, second boot (hot) with reduced graphic went fine, third boot (hot) with normal graphic went fine too.
FYI, I'm even more assured it's race-condition related. I think I'm actually affecting the boot results by hitting return at the right time to give it one more interrupt in the middle of stuff. But it has to be well timed. My screen typically looks like "bunch of stuff <slight pause at about 1.5-2.0> bunch more stuff, flash to new screen as driver loads". If you hit return once or twice (but no more) *right* after it pauses you can get it to boot with greater reliability. (this is all trial and error with no hard evidence cataloged).
For the last few weeks the problem seems to have gone away on my laptop. I don't *think* I saw a kernel update during that time, but I suspect I missed it while doing a yum update a while ago. Current kernel: kernel-2.6.40-4.fc15.x86_64 I suspect the jump from 2.6.38 to 2.6.40 fixed it.