Kernel panic during halt 2.3.6

Peter Clark (pclark@bbnplanet.com)
Sat, 26 Jun 1999 18:17:00 -0400


While halting/reboot or any other type of system halt I get a panic:

INIT: no processes left in this runlevel [ OK ]
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer deference at virtual address 00000098
current->tss.dr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0155900>]
EFLAGS: 00010297
eax: c0201f1c ebx: 00000000 ecx: c01f39d0 edx: c0201f1c
esi: c01f39d0 edi: 00000023 ebp: c0201f3c esp: c0201f1c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage: c0201000)
Stack: c0201f1c c0201f1c c0111849 00000000 00000001 c02230c0 00004dfa 00000000
c0201f50 c0117f35 c0200000 00000000 c010a14e 000007be c0109074 c0200000
c0200000 c01eb618 00000000 00004dfa 000007be c020d000 00000018 00000018
Call Trace: [<c011849>] [<c0117f35>] [<c010a14e>] [<c0109074>] [<c01077c9>]
[<c0107817>] [<c0107859>] [<c0108fd8>] [<c010607b>] [<c0106000>] [<c0100176>]
Code: 8b 93 98 00 00 83 7b 24 00 74 16 a1 b4 d3 1e c0 2b 42 60
Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In swapper task - not syncing

I'm running a Redhat 6.0 base, kernel 2.3.6, Intel P3, 128MB physical RAM,
ATI Rage Fury 32MB, Adaptec 2940UW, 2 IDE CDs, IDE tape, 4GB IBM and 8GB
Seagatge SCSI hard drives. The only change to the kernel 2.3.6 source tree
as distributed was the mmap patch sent out a while ago. 2.3.5 does not
exhibit this behaviour but is repeatable at will with 2.3.6. I can't go
past 2.3.6 as I need FAT/VFAT mounting ability.

More details as requested.

Peter

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