Re: today's linux-next fails to boot

From: FrÃdÃric Weisbecker
Date: Wed Jul 16 2008 - 17:58:11 EST


Thomas Meyer a Ãcrit :
Am Samstag, den 12.07.2008, 17:03 +0200 schrieb Takashi Iwai:
At Fri, 11 Jul 2008 14:12:11 +0300,
TÃrÃk Edwin wrote:
Today's linux-next tree (commit
93847083e4791567931bd17c039cc35881cdad29) fails to boot:
[built with gcc-4.2.4-3]

BUG: Int 14: CR2 b0049dea
EDI 00000082 ESI 00000000 EBP c059be88 ESP c059be5c
EBX f000ec62 EDX 0000000e ECX c0595480 EAX f000ec62
err 00000000 EIP c0181ca0 CS 00000060 flg 00010082
Stack: 00000040 c06a2ba0 000080d0 c0595480 c0000f19c c000f180 c0581120
c059bea8
c02bf19b 00000000 00000080 c059beb8 c0000f194 c000f180 0000000a
c059beb8
c03a1059 00000000 00000000 c059bed8 c05c4c7c 0009efff 00000000
c04f4df4

I get this as soon as I boot from grub2, strangely the error message is
at the bottom of the screen, and I can't see the full message (scrolling
won't work).

The last kernel I built & booted was 2.6.26-rc8 from Linus's tree. I
will try to built&boot 2.6.26-rc9, and then bisect.

This happens on 32-bit Dell Inspiron 6400 (Intel Core Duo T2300 @1.66
Ghz CPU), Intel ICH-7 chipset, and a seagate SATA drive. I will provide full hardware details once I bisected the problem.

Meanwhile, if somebody has an idea as to what is wrong?
[Added Ingo to Cc]

I get the boot problem on i386 with 2008-07-11 linux-next tree, too.
In my case, no error appears on the screen, just staying blank and
dead. It seems stopping at the very beginning, soon after GRUB, so
could be the same reason.

The same config worked fine with yesterday's tree (2008-07-10) on the
same machine. Also, today's tree works on x86-64 (but on another machine).


I have got the same problem as Edwin TÃRÃK: From next-20080710 to next-20080711 the kernel fails to boot.
EIP seems to be in function kmem_cache_alloc.

This is also true for next-20080716.
I didn't try the kernels > next-20080711 and < next-20080716.

Any news on this bug?
Yes a fix has been released:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.kexec/1882

But I don't know when it will be applied....
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