Re: oops during boot of 2.6.16-rc3-git7 on AMD64

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 08:42:08PM +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> Andi Kleen schrieb:
> > Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <c-d.hailfinger.devel.2006@gmx.net> writes:
> > 
> > 
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>vanilla 2.6.16-rc3-git7 gives me the following oops during boot (most
> >>of the time while mounting all filesystems) on my amd64 machine:
> >>
> >>(hand-written, no serial interface available)
> >>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008
> >>rip: run_timer_softirq+322
> >>process udev
> >>Call trace:
> >>__do_softirq+68
> > 
> > 
> > Looks like someone is corrupting the timer list. Nasty. Can you do
> > a binary search?
> > 
> > Or alternatively remove as many drivers as possible and narrow down
> > which one is to blame.
> 
> Yes, will do that.

What is the status of this problem?

> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel

cu
Adrian

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