Re: 2.4.20 kernel crashes while scanning partition list

Joshua Kwan (joshk@ludicrus.ath.cx)
Sat, 18 Jan 2003 17:09:07 -0800


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I ran your oops log through ksymoops, doesn't look like you made an=20
error writing it down :)

I have no clue what is going on, though - I'm just attaching it and see=20
if the list can make any sense of it.

Attached (ksymoops.log) is the aforementioned file

Regards
Josh

On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 02:02:40PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> I am installing Debian Linux on my new Athlon XP PC, and I have
> problems with the 2.4.20 kernel crashing on boot. I can successfully
> boot using the 2.4.18 kernel build that is included with the Debian 3.0
> install cds.
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> The problems seems to stem from my use of Promise FastTrak133 RAID
> controller (yes, I know they say it sucks, but it's what is integrated
> on the MB). In 2.4.18, I can get ataraid working, although I have to
> specify the address to the IDE controller manually. 2.4.20 picks that
> up automatically, but crashes when enumerating the HD partitions
> (reproducible every time).
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> The crash output looks like this (I had to write it down by hand, hopeful=
ly
> there will be no typos):
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> {{{output from enumerating partitions on /dev/ataraid/d0}}}
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000=
00
> printing eip: 00000000
> *pde =3D 00000000
> Oops: 00000000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010282
> eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c038c740 edx: 00000000
> esi: f7e80f40 edi: 0040f5c8 ebp: 06ed3cf9 esp: c1c17d94
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=3Dc1c17000)
> Stack: c01e5ddc c038c740 00000000 f7e80f40 00000002 00000000 f7e80dc0 c1a=
7b3d0
> c01e5e3e 00000000 f7e80f40 00000000 00000006 c01351b0 00000000 f7e=
80f40
> c1a7b3d0 d7fbcdb4 00000000 f7ed0d30 00001000 00000004 00000400 f7e=
80f40
> Call trace: [<c01e5ddc>] [<c01e5e3e>] [<c01351b0>] [<c012580c>] [<c0137d6=
f>]
> [<c0137cd0>] [<c0127c75>] [<c0152162>] [<c0137d60>] [<c01522a=
3>]
> [<c0116315>] [<c015278b>] [<c014538e>] [<c013811d>] [<c0151f8=
4>]
> [<c01345f8>] [<c0296373>] [<c02093a8>] [<c02094ac>] [<c020943=
7>]
> [<c01520f7>] [<c0152036>] [<c0208af4>] [<c0105037>] [<c01055b=
8>]
> Code: Bad EIP value.
> <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
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> The corresponding System.map file can be downloaded at
> <URL:http://www.softwolves.pp.se/tmp/2.4.20/System.map-2.4.20> and a
> partition list from sfdisk -l can be found at
> <URL:http://www.softwolves.pp.se/tmp/2.4.20/partlist.txt>.
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> The motherboard is a MSI KT3Ultra2 ("VIA KT333 chipset based"), the CPU
> is an Athlon XP2200+, and the machine has 1 Gbyte of RAM.
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> Any help in getting this resolved would be greatly appreciated! I
> really would like to move on from my old K6 machine...
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> Please Cc replies to me, I do not subscribe to the list due to its
> volume.
> --=20
> \\//
> Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
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ksymoops 2.4.8 on i586 2.4.20-ck2-kanoe. Options used
-V (specified)
-K (specified)
-L (specified)
-O (specified)
-m System.map-2.4.20 (specified)

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 00000000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Not tainted
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010282
eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c038c740 edx: 00000000
esi: f7e80f40 edi: 0040f5c8 ebp: 06ed3cf9 esp: c1c17d94
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, stackpage=c1c17000)
Stack: c01e5ddc c038c740 00000000 f7e80f40 00000002 00000000 f7e80dc0 c1a7b3d0
c01e5e3e 00000000 f7e80f40 00000000 00000006 c01351b0 00000000 f7e80f40
c1a7b3d0 d7fbcdb4 00000000 f7ed0d30 00001000 00000004 00000400 f7e80f40
Call trace: [<c01e5ddc>] [<c01e5e3e>] [<c01351b0>] [<c012580c>] [<c0137d6f>]
[<c0137cd0>] [<c0127c75>] [<c0152162>] [<c0137d60>] [<c01522a3>]
[<c0116315>] [<c015278b>] [<c014538e>] [<c013811d>] [<c0151f84>]
[<c01345f8>] [<c0296373>] [<c02093a8>] [<c02094ac>] [<c0209437>]
[<c01520f7>] [<c0152036>] [<c0208af4>] [<c0105037>] [<c01055b8>]
Code: Bad EIP value.

>>EIP; 00000000 Before first symbol

>>ecx; c038c740 <blk_dev+0/9780>

Trace; c01e5ddc <generic_make_request+11c/130>
Trace; c01e5e3e <submit_bh+4e/70>
Trace; c01351b0 <block_read_full_page+230/250>
Trace; c012580c <add_to_page_cache_unique+6c/80>
Trace; c0137d6f <blkdev_readpage+f/20>
Trace; c0137cd0 <blkdev_get_block+0/40>
Trace; c0127c75 <read_cache_page+85/120>
Trace; c0152162 <read_dev_sector+32/90>
Trace; c0137d60 <blkdev_readpage+0/20>
Trace; c01522a3 <extended_partition+c3/210>
Trace; c0116315 <printk+105/120>
Trace; c015278b <msdos_partition+19b/2f0>
Trace; c014538e <get_empty_inode+8e/a0>
Trace; c013811d <bdget+fd/150>
Trace; c0151f84 <check_partition+104/180>
Trace; c01345f8 <bread+18/70>
Trace; c0296373 <_mmx_memcpy+53/160>
Trace; c02093a8 <calc_pdcblock_offset+18/70>
Trace; c02094ac <read_disk_sb+ac/e0>
Trace; c0209437 <read_disk_sb+37/e0>
Trace; c01520f7 <grok_partitions+b7/f0>
Trace; c0152036 <register_disk+26/30>
Trace; c0208af4 <ataraid_register_disk+24/28>
Trace; c0105037 <init+7/110>
Trace; c01055b8 <kernel_thread+28/40>

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