Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 83335
Kernel BUG at apic.c:287! / Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 Description of problem: During inital boot from CD on digital PRIORIS XL 6200 (200Mhz PPro) the install hangs with an apparent kernel crash: Kernel BUG at apic.c:287! ... Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Just try to boot from iso CD; tried "linux apic", "noapic", "disableapic", etc. Got the panic every time. 2. 3. Actual Results: as described below Expected Results: I was hoping to be able to install :-) Additional info: .... Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. Checking for popad bug... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX ---------------[ cut here ]----------- Kernel BUG at apic.c:287! invalid operand: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c028682e>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 EIP is at (2.4.18-14BOOT) eax: 0 ebx: ff ecx: ffffffff edx:0 esi: 59800 edi: c0105000 ebp: 4e00 esp: c027ffdc ds: 18 es: 18 ss: 18 Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c027f000) Stack: ff 0 59800 c0286dd9 c02806b8 c027e000 0 c02afd40 c0100191 Call Trace: Code: 0f 0b 1f 01 46 c7 22 c0 b8 ff ff ff ff 87 05 e0 e0 ff ff a1 <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! In idle task - not syncing <and it hangs there with Caps / Scroll lock LEDs flashing>
Same bug is present in the PHOEBE beta kit: kernel BUG at apic.:298! ... register dump, stack / call trace etc <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
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