From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946565AbXD3VXS (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:23:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946824AbXD3VXS (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:23:18 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:38544 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946565AbXD3VXQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:23:16 -0400 Message-ID: <46365E3F.9070109@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2007 17:23:11 -0400 From: Chuck Ebbert Organization: Red Hat User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Manuel Metz CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nappers@gmail.com, Michal Piotrowski Subject: Re: PROBLEM: oops in 2.6.21.1 after bringing up the network References: <8fgo8-1wP-9@gated-at.bofh.it> <4635D7B1.2040001@astro.uni-bonn.de> In-Reply-To: <4635D7B1.2040001@astro.uni-bonn.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Manuel Metz wrote: > Brett Ryland wrote: >> Hi, >> I am consistently getting a kernel oops from a vanilla 2.6.21.1 kernel. It >> also occurs in vanilla 2.6.21, but not in 2.6.20.8. The relevant section of >> the kernel is networking, in particular the sis900 module (I think). >> The attached file contains the oops and the information asked for on the site >> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/lkml/reporting-bugs.html for reporting >> kernel oopses. The oops fully crashes my computer and leaves the capslock and >> numlock leds flashing, so the oops is transcribed by hand from a photo >> (hopefully I haven't made a mistake, I do still have the photo if it's >> needed). >> >> I'm not subscribed to the mailing list so please CC any questions/solutions to >> me. >> >> Regards, >> Nappers. > > Hi, I have the same problem here on an ASUS laptop with sis network > card. The system worked fine with kernel 2.6.21-rc7-mm2 and 2.6.20.7, > but crashes with 2.6.21.1. > Fixed by this: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=dc5a144991ba803bc8afded105c9db1dea0e57ab Look here before reporting bugs to linux-kernel: http://kernelnewbies.org/known_regressions