Distribution: Suse 8.2
Hardware Environment: Compaq Armada E500
Software Environment:
Problem Description: Panic on boot



Linux version 2.6.0-test8 (root@bia) (gcc version 3.3 (SuSE Linux)) #3 
Sat Oct 18 19:00:41 CEST 2003
Video mode to be used for restore is f00
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 00000000000f0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000007ff0000 (usable)
  BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff0000 - 0000000007ff3800 (reserved)
  BIOS-e820: 0000000007ff3800 - 0000000008000000 (ACPI NVS)
127MB LOWMEM available.
On node 0 totalpages: 32752
   DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
   Normal zone: 28656 pages, LIFO batch:6
   HighMem zone: 0 pages, LIFO batch:1
DMI 2.3 present.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 COMPAQ                                    ) @ 0x000f9970
ACPI: RSDT (v001 COMPAQ RSDTBL   0x00000001 CPQ  0x00000001) @ 0x07ff4800
ACPI: FADT (v001 COMPAQ CPQB151  0x20020315 CPQ  0x00000001) @ 0x07ff4828
ACPI: DSDT (v001 COMPAQ ARMADAE7 0x00010000 MSFT 0x0100000c) @ 0x00000000
Building zonelist for node : 0
Kernel command line: splash=silent root=/dev/hda6 console=ttyS0,57600n8 
console=tty0
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 512 (order 9: 4096 bytes)
Detected 597.007 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Memory: 126084k/131008k available (2029k kernel code, 4388k reserved, 
774k data, 132k init, 0k highmem)
Calibrating delay loop... 1179.64 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 256K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0478, last bus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
  tbxface-0117 [03] acpi_load_tables      : ACPI Tables successfully 
acquired
Parsing all Control 
Methods:.............................................................................................................................................................................
Table [DSDT](id F004) - 614 Objects with 75 Devices 173 Methods 25 Regions
ACPI Namespace successfully loaded at root c03effdc
evxfevnt-0093 [04] acpi_enable           : Transition to ACPI mode 
successful
evgpeblk-0748 [06] ev_create_gpe_block   : GPE 00 to 15 [_GPE] 2 regs at 
000000000000500C on int 9
evgpeblk-0221 [08] ev_save_method_info   : Unknown GPE method type: C16A 
(name not of form _Lnn or _Enn)
evgpeblk-0221 [08] ev_save_method_info   : Unknown GPE method type: C135 
(name not of form _Lnn or _Enn)
Completing Region/Field/Buffer/Package 
initialization:.............................................................................
Initialized 25/25 Regions 0/0 Fields 19/19 Buffers 33/33 Packages (622 
nodes)
Executing all Device _STA and_INI 
methods:............................................................................
76 Devices found containing: 76 _STA, 6 _INI methods
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
dsopcode-0526 [19] ds_init_buffer_field  : <1>Unable to handle kernel 
NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004
  printing eip:
c01de05e
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
CPU:    0
EIP:    0060:[<c01de05e>]    Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010213
EIP is at vsnprintf+0x28e/0x4e0
eax: 00000004   ebx: 0000000a   ecx: 00000004   edx: 00000003
esi: c03efae7   edi: ffffffff   ebp: 00000000   esp: c114bac0
ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo=c114a000 task=c117b8c0)
Stack: c114bb08 ffffffff 000004a0 00000000 0000000a ffffffff 00000003 
00000002
        00000004 00000004 ffffffff 00000001 c114bb68 c7f02c48 c7f02ee8 
c01de307
        c03efac0 3fc10540 c03292ea c114bb60 c01e6579 c03efac0 c03292c0 
c114bb54
Call Trace:
  [<c01de307>] vsprintf+0x27/0x30
  [<c01e6579>] acpi_os_vprintf+0x12/0x2a
  [<c020992b>] acpi_ut_debug_print+0x97/0x9d
  [<c01e91d2>] acpi_ds_init_buffer_field+0x18d/0x20c
  [<c01e93ac>] acpi_ds_eval_buffer_field_operands+0x15b/0x17d
  [<c01e9f8f>] acpi_ds_exec_end_op+0x22c/0x409
  [<c0201a29>] acpi_ps_append_arg+0x1d/0x85
  [<c02013e5>] acpi_ps_parse_loop+0x6bf/0xa51
  [<c0209a87>] acpi_ut_status_exit+0x49/0x55
  [<c01ea923>] acpi_ds_call_control_method+0x231/0x261
  [<c01ecd52>] acpi_ds_get_current_walk_state+0x3f/0x4a
  [<c0201836>] acpi_ps_parse_aml+0xbf/0x241
  [<c020253e>] acpi_psx_execute+0x226/0x2b0
  [<c01fd9d4>] acpi_ns_execute_control_method+0xe5/0x104
  [<c01fd8ad>] acpi_ns_evaluate_by_handle+0xdf/0x121
  [<c01fd635>] acpi_ns_evaluate_relative+0x141/0x192
  [<c0209a87>] acpi_ut_status_exit+0x49/0x55
  [<c01fdce5>] acpi_ns_handle_to_pathname+0xbf/0xca
  [<c0209cc2>] acpi_ut_evaluate_object+0x42/0x195
  [<c0205f7c>] acpi_rs_get_crs_method_data+0x42/0x8b
  [<c020416f>] acpi_get_current_resources+0x78/0x93
  [<c0211853>] acpi_pci_evaluate_crs+0x4d/0xb2
  [<c0211a31>] acpi_pci_root_add+0x179/0x2b1
  [<c0211a78>] acpi_pci_root_add+0x1c0/0x2b1
  [<c02191f2>] acpi_bus_driver_init+0x85/0x12c
  [<c0219608>] acpi_bus_find_driver+0x8e/0xdf
  [<c0219b64>] acpi_bus_add+0x193/0x1db
  [<c0219cf5>] acpi_bus_scan+0x149/0x1b3
  [<c03cdba3>] acpi_scan_init+0x87/0xc4
  [<c03c0782>] do_initcalls+0x22/0xa0
  [<c012cb3f>] init_workqueues+0xf/0x30
  [<c01050cd>] init+0x2d/0x140
  [<c01050a0>] init+0x0/0x140
  [<c0107269>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xc

Code: 80 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 83 e5 10 89 c3 75
  <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!