Re: [Announce] 2.6.29-rc8-rt2

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:

> On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 12:27 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 12:06 -0700, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 19:49 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > > > * Fernando Lopez-Lezcano <nando@ccrma.Stanford.EDU> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > Mar 21 10:47:43 localhost kernel: kernel tried to execute NX-protected
> > > > > page - exploit attempt? (uid: 0)
> > > > > Mar 21 10:47:43 localhost kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel paging
> > > > > request at f6400800
> > > > 
> > > > kernel tried to execute some really weird address, probably via a 
> > > > function pointer.
> > > 
> > > Strangely enough rc8-rt1 boots (almost). _Exact_ same build with the
> > > exception of the change from rt1 -> rt2. 
> > > 
> > > Haldaemon does not start on boot (fails), if I login as root and start
> > > the haldaemon service manually it starts. And then things seem to work
> > > fine (I'm writing this email from that machine). Still investigating...
> > 
> > First problem was due to old firmware for the iwl3945 hardware. I
> > updated to the latest and hal started fine (this is on fc9). 
> > 
> > Now another one related to xorg/drm...
> 
> Scratch that, I had an old version of xorg/drm installed in this 
> particular machine and the new kernel did not like it. Seems to 
> boot fine now... sorry for the noise.

No problem :-)

I'm wondering, do you have any theory about how the old firmware 
cause that weird NX-fault kernel crash? For a few minutes i took it 
for an x86 crash.

	Ingo