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From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@interlinx.bc.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops with 2.6.0 on IBM 600X
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 05:55:41 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031219135541.GP31393@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1071842015.5759.64.camel@pc>

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 08:28, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> devfs is not really in a state to be used (maybe it should be removed);
>> could you try without?

On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 08:53:36AM -0500, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> The same kernels that cause this problem on my IBM laptop do not cause
> the same problems on my desktop Athlon 800 (Thunderbird) machine, so
> this has to be some strange interaction with this hardware, no?
> In any case, with a devfs enabled kernel booted with "devfs=nomount"
> causes the same problem.
> A non-devfs enabled kernel no error message regarding devfs and no stack
> trace from it, but I still get an oops:
> hdc: CRN-8241B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000008
[...]
> EIP is at sysfs_hash_and_remove+0x8/0x69

This one we can do something about. Looking into it.


-- wli

      reply	other threads:[~2003-12-19 13:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-12-19 13:22 oops with 2.6.0 on IBM 600X Brian J. Murrell
2003-12-19 13:28 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-12-19 13:53   ` Brian J. Murrell
2003-12-19 13:55     ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]

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