Re: Kernel panic in 2.6.19-rc1

[Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com>]

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 14:13:27 -0500
> Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> wrote:
> 
>> Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 14:19:18 -0500
>>> Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm getting kernel panics within a few minutes of boot with 2.6.19-rc1 
>>>> (latest git) on x86_64.  Other than "make oldconfig", it's an identical 
>>>> configuration to a working kernel on 2.6.18.
>>>>
>>>> The panic scrolls off the screen, but I copied down what was on the screen:
>>> Can you get netconsole going?  Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt.
>>> It's pretty simple.
>> Three netconsole dumps attached.  I hope they provide more information. 
>>   Let me know if there's anything more I can provide.
>>
> 
> hmm.
> 
> 
>> [   20.889846] warning: process `date' used the removed sysctl system call
>> [  143.574063] do_IRQ: 0.65 No irq handler for vector
> 
> This might be the cause.  Please try the appended fix.

This patch seems to fix the problem, and since it's already gone into 
the kernel, the latest git tree works without modification.

Thanks for the quick response,

Frank