Re: [BUG GIT] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e1380288

From: Marc Koschewski
Date: Sat Feb 11 2006 - 10:08:15 EST


* Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@xxxxxxx> [2006-02-11 04:01:16 -0500]:

> On Feb 10, 2006, at 17:42, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> >* Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> [2006-02-11 01:25:15 +0300]:
> >
> >>On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:41:22PM +0100, Marc Koschewski wrote:
> >>>I just wanted to mount an external USB HDD... this was what I got:
> >>>[4297455.819000] EIP: 0060:[<c01ee88e>] Tainted: P VLI
> >>
> >>Kindly reproduce without proprietary modules loaded.
> >
> >I knew this would be the response. :)
>
> So why did you bother posting in the first place?
> Patient: Doctor, it hurts when I do this.
> Doctor: So don't do that!
> Patient: I knew that's what you'd say!
> Doctor: ... so why'd you waste my time?

PLease respond like this to any other mail with any proprietary module loaded.
WTF?! I just wanted to let you know... not more, not less.

I could also stop testing -mm and -git from now on. Unfortunately all my
machines have an nVidia graphics. Should all other people as well stop
reporting? Linux without X is useless to me. Sure, I could use the xorg module.
But it mostly sucks performance wise.

Moreover, I don't know in what way a PCI graphics adapter is pissing off USB
devices. Is there a chance to?

Calm down...

>
> >Unfortunately I cannot reproduce. I just remounted the disk 6
> >times, via fstab and 'by hand'. Also rebooted with the thing
> >attached and just plugged it into the running system. No chance ...
> >always worked as expected.
>
> Since you cannot reproduce your problem, we cannot help you. I
> strongly suspect the proprietary module based on general suspicion
> and paranoia. I recommend doing without it if possible.

I didn't know I cannot reprocude this when I sent the report. Please update the
docs so people know to only report bugs/probs in case they're easyily to be
reproduced.

Marc
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