Bugzilla – Bug 206153
i386 mini iso (Rescue CD) - Kernel Crash on AMD K6-2 system
Last modified: 2006-10-03 06:52:04 UTC
Kernel crashes on system with AMD K6-2 450MHz CPU, 256MB RAM. Error occurs after freeing unused kernel memory. Here is a snippet, hand-typed, from screen. (Sorry, could not save screen dump.) Freeing unused kernel memory: 196k freed invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfile: Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0103cda>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010006 (2.6.18-rc5-git-2-default #1) EIP is at check_userspace+0x13/0x19 eax: 00000273 ebx: c02c7a76 eax: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: c0304640 edi: c02c7a76 ebp: cf790000 esp: ef791f5c ds: 0076 es: 0-76 ss: 0060 Process init (pid: 1, ti=cf790000 task=cf78f5f0 task.ti=cf790000) Kernel crashes in all modes of install, i.e. Installation Installation - ACPI Disabled Installation - Local APIC Disabled Installation - Safe Settings Rescue System This problem also occurs using the Alpha 3 rescue CD.
This appears to be a duplicate of bug #202079 -- albeit using the mini-iso instead of the install iso's -- but I like the title better, and #202079 does not appear to be getting any closer to being solved :-) Does Novell intend to drop support of legacy cpu's? I would like to know as soon as possible so I can plan what to do about these machines. (I found the SMP Kernel only change to be somewhat ominous myself.) If OpenSUSE needs help fixing this bug, a pointer to detailed directions on how to help debug such a problem would be useful. (I am not helpless when it comes to debugging Kernel problems, but details of how the installation iso's are compiled and created are not obvious to me just by looking at the factory source directory.)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 202079 ***