lm-sensors 2.8 serious bug

lm-sensors 2.8 serious bug

[Matej Obid]

Hello!

I am a user of gentoo linux and I have just installed masked
lm-sensors-2.8.0 and i2c-2.8.0. After running sensors detect
which detected my chipset and sensors I ran it and it seriously crashed
linux after trying to load adm1021 module (the machine stopped
responding to anything so I had to turn it off completely, even the
reset button was not enough)
My system is running on ABIT NF7-S motherboard. (I dont know if this is
important information but I have AthlonXP 2100+ and Radeon 9600 Pro)
The modules that sensors-detect put in /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors are:
MODULE_0=i2c-nforce2
MODULE_1=i2c-isa
MODULE_2­m1021
MODULE_3îprom
MODULE_4=w83781d

I hope that I helped somehow with this information.

lm-sensors 2.8 serious bug

[Jean Delvare]

> I am a user of gentoo linux and I have just installed masked
> lm-sensors-2.8.0 and i2c-2.8.0. After running sensors detect
> which detected my chipset and sensors I ran it and it seriously
> crashed linux after trying to load adm1021 module (the machine stopped
> responding to anything so I had to turn it off completely, even the
> reset button was not enough)
> My system is running on ABIT NF7-S motherboard. (I dont know if this
> is important information but I have AthlonXP 2100+ and Radeon 9600
> Pro) The modules that sensors-detect put in /etc/conf.d/lm_sensors
> are: MODULE_0=i2c-nforce2
> MODULE_1=i2c-isa
> MODULE_2­m1021
> MODULE_3îprom
> MODULE_4=w83781d
> 
> I hope that I helped somehow with this information.

Yes, you did. We already had reports that adm1021 was causing systems to
crash, so you seem to confirm that.

Most likely, you don't have an adm1021 or compatible device on your
system. The driver is probably trying to handle a device it wasn't
written for.

We'd need the full output of sensors-detect 2.8.0 to investigate the
problem. I'd also want the output of sensors-detect CVS (which you can
get here:
http://www2.lm-sensors.nu/~lm78/cvs/lm_sensors2/prog/detect/sensors-detect).
Don't forget to unload all chip drivers (adm1021, eeprom, w83781) before
running the scripts.

Thanks.

-- 
Jean Delvare
http://www.ensicaen.ismra.fr/~delvare/