Bug 617196

Summary: Kernel oops when booting kernel-factory-head on 11.2
Product: [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.3 Reporter: Jörg Mayer <jmayer>
Component: KernelAssignee: E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Critical    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jeffm
Version: Factory   
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Hardware: i586   
OS: openSUSE 11.2   
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Description Jörg Mayer 2010-06-24 19:04:59 UTC 
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Problem description:
Kernel boot stops early with an oops. If vga setting is anything but "normal", it just hangs with a grey screen, with vga=normal there are only a few lines visible, which are included below (in a shortened version).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot
2.
3.



Traceback copied to paper and then typed in:
Pid: 0, comm:swapper Trainted: G    D 2.6.35-rc3-2-desktop
Call Trace:
try_stack_unwind
dump_trace
show_trace_log_lvl
show_trace
dump_stack
panic
do_exit
oops_end
do_invalid_op
error_code
kmap_atomic_prot
kmap_atomic
simple_write_begin
initramfs_file_write
initramfs_write
do_copy
flush_buffer
gunzip
unpack_to_rootfs
populate_rootfs
start_kernel



jmayer@egg:~> uname -a
Linux egg 2.6.31.5-0.1-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2009-10-26 15:49:03 +0100 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

  jmayer@egg:~> lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    core-2.0-noarch:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-noarch:core-2.0-ia32:core-3.2-ia32:core-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-ia32:desktop-4.0-noarch:graphics-2.0-ia32:graphics-2.0-noarch:graphics-3.2-ia32:graphics-3.2-noarch:graphics-4.0-ia32:graphics-4.0-noarch
Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX
Description:    openSUSE 11.2 (i586)
Release:        11.2
Codename:       n/a

 jmayer@egg:~> zypper lr -d
...
9  | kernel-factory-head           | kernel-factory-head                | Yes     | No      |   70     | rpm-md | http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_11.2/                |        
...

 jmayer@egg:~/work/suse> zypper se -s kernel- | grep ^i
i | kernel-desktop                  | package    | 2.6.35-rc3.2.1  | i586   | kernel
-factory-head                                             
i | kernel-desktop-base             | package    | 2.6.35-rc3.2.1  | i586   | kernel
-factory-head                                             
i | kernel-desktop-devel            | package    | 2.6.35-rc3.2.1  | i586   | kernel
-factory-head                                             
i | kernel-devel                    | package    | 2.6.35-rc3.2.1  | noarch | kernel
-factory-head                                             
i | kernel-firmware                 | package    | 20100227-22.1   | noarch | kernel
-factory-head                                             
i | kernel-source                   | package    | 2.6.35-rc3.2.1  | noarch | kernel
-factory-head    
i | linux-kernel-headers            | package    | 2.6.31-3.4      | noarch | Main R
epository (OSS)  
i | nfs-kernel-server               | package    | 1.1.3-21.3.1    | i586   | openSU
SE-11.2-Update   
jmayer@egg:~/work/suse>
Comment 1 Jeff Mahoney 2010-06-24 19:20:31 UTC 
This is the same initramfs DSDT bug that's been reported several times.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 616940 ***