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Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:31:58 -0500 (EST)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@holomorphy.com>
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To: Glen Kaukola <glen@earthlink.net>
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Subject: Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
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On Sun, 9 Feb 2003, Glen Kaukola wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> On my Gentoo system, I installed a 2.5.59 kernel, and when I boot it, it tells 
> me this:
> 
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
> In idle task - not syncing
>  Stuck ??
> CPU #1 not responding - cannot use it
> 
> But then it goes ahead and boots anyway, and I just have one cpu missing from 
> programs like top.  My system is a supermicro P4DC6+ motherboard with two 2.2 
> Ghz pentium 4 xeons.  I've attached the output of dmesg.  If you need 
> anything else from me that would be of help then let me know.

Please decode that oops on the system after it has booted. or perhaps even 
turn on CONFIG_KALLSYMS. Does it boot 2.5.59-vanilla fine? or even with 
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.5/snapshots/patch-2.5.59-bk3.bz2?

	Zwane
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