Bugzilla – Bug 150251
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt
Last modified: 2006-02-21 12:49:21 UTC
On bootup during a the new installation after installing CD#1 of OpenSuse 10.1 beta2, the system hangs at last with the following error message: Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interupt The same fault occures at most of the installation attempts. See the attached screen photos collected in a 5 page pdf file. The last page 5 was taken first, then rebooted and took the photos on page 1-4. Hardware: K7, 512 MB RAM, 5 GB disk slice for / and 1 GB for swap. The same hardware has worked or works well using Suse 9.0-9.3 Pro, OpenSuse 10.0, JDS3/SLES9, Ubuntu 5.10 and Win2k as well; the four latest in a multiboot configuration.
Created attachment 67829 [details] phots of the sreens during bootup after installing CD#1 page 5 was taken first when the system hung, then rebooted and took the photos on page 1-4 of the messages scrolling over the screen. Therefore possibly overlap or holes in the messages sequences.
Yes the most important part - the beginning of the first oops is missing. Also turn off the flashlight please, it makes large parts of the screen unreadable. Much better would be if you use a second computer and a null modem cable
Created attachment 67982 [details] 10.1 /var/log/boot.msg (after incomplete installation) Believe me or not. During preparing a new photo sequence of the screen boot messages, suddenly the boot and installation process continued and asked me to enter CD#2 and CD#3 (for a standard KDE installation selected initially). However, the installation hung again on Saving Network Configuration -> Write drivers information (/etc/modprobe.conf) ..... 0% while the time stamp surrounded This has also happened during a previous installation attempt, or later on Font config. Also this time I had to reset the PC. Booted again, sluggish. The KDE login box had very small fonts, but I was able to login as root. From there, starting Yast2 network card, I set the correct hostname "dhcppc3", because the default "linux" isn't able to connect to Internet!? At the same time I created a normal user. Trying to reboot again, again the kernel panic occures and the PC hang. I havent't the arrangement to connect another PC, but I'm able to mount the Suse 10.1 file system from another distro, JDS3/SLES9, on my multiboot configuration disk. Therefor before trying new sreen photos, I thought the Suse 10.1 /var/log/boot.msg could could be of some use?
If it contains the Oops, yes. Also have a look at /var/log/messages.
Created attachment 68190 [details] 10.1 beta2 /var/log/messages Now both the 10.1 beta2 /var/log/boot.msg and /var/log/messages are attached here
Can you try Beta 3 or later? This should be fixed there.
I agree, this ought to be fixed. Please reopen if the problem persists.
Installed beta3 with standard KDE from CD1-2-3. Couldn't see the kernel panic booting from harddisk, but did still see the messages "Fatal error inserting lib modules 2.6 ...." "Trans replayed: ...." (several error message lines followed) Installation looked to freeze (rotating time stamp didn't finish) just before finishing installation during Configuration Hardware. Had to reset the PC, very slow auto login, video on display was black in minutes after reboot before the login finished.
Created attachment 69184 [details] /var/log/boot.omsg
Created attachment 69185 [details] /var/log/boot.omsg
The messages are much easier to read now, looks like a driver bug, probably one that is specific to the stradis card. <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000fc <4>EIP: 0060:[pg0+552967687/1069884416] Tainted: G U VLI <4>EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.16-rc1-git3-7-default) <0>EIP is at stradis_probe+0x5ba/0xa31 [stradis] <0>eax: 00000000 ebx: e130a720 ecx: 00000000 edx: df768ab0 <0>esi: e130a1cc edi: e130ab80 ebp: e130a720 esp: df877d70 <0>ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 <0>Process modprobe (pid: 1557, threadinfo=df876000 task=df768ab0) <0>Stack: <0>dfe4b0cc 00000000 00000000 00000001 dead4ead ffffffff ffffffff 00000001 <0> dead4ead ffffffff ffffffff 00000001 dead4ead ffffffff ffffffff 00000001 <0> dead4ead ffffffff ffffffff 00000001 dead4ead ffffffff ffffffff e1309fac
Stradis is part of video for linux -> Gerd?
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 144623 ***