From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: On a small number of our systems, the ddcprobe command causes a kernel panic. It doesn't happen always and only some systems exhibit this behaviour. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1.Run ddcprobe many times (eg in a loop of "ddcprobe; sleep 5") 2.That's it! 3. Actual Results: We get a few lines of identical ddcprobe output and then the kernel panics. Expected Results: We should have just seen large number of identical DDC lines. Additional info: At the URL quotes you can find our manual transcription of the screen contining the kernel panic message, the output of a run of ddcprobe and the hardware configuration as spotted by kudzu. $ rpm -q kernel kernel-2.4.18-7.80 $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/kudzu kudzu-0.99.63-3 $ rpm -qf /usr/sbin/ddcprobe rhpl-0.30-1
please try a more recent kernel too; we've fixed quite a few bugs in the vm86 emulation code (and ddcprobe uses that a lot ;)
We have tried it again with kernel-2.4.18-11 and the problem occurs in exactly the same way. This is the latest in our "null" mirror. If you had a different kernel in mind please give specifics.
Further data: We have built kernel-2.4.18-7.80 with apm configured as a module. With the module unloaded our kernel survives ddcprobe without difficulty. Loading the module causes the crashes to recur.
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