Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750721AbWHVTjB (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:39:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750722AbWHVTjA (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:39:00 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:1925 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750721AbWHVTi7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 22 Aug 2006 15:38:59 -0400 Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:38:50 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Paul Drynoff Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [BUG] Can not boot linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2 Message-Id: <20060822123850.bdb09717.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20060822125118.12ba1ed4.pauldrynoff@gmail.com> References: <20060822125118.12ba1ed4.pauldrynoff@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1621 Lines: 42 On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:51:18 +0400 Paul Drynoff wrote: > The almost the same config works fine with linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm1, > kernel compiled with debug info, but for some reason there is no > human readable trace. > > The kernel linux-2.6.18-rc4-mm2 + ntp-add-ntp_update_frequency-fix.patch > > Any idea? > > Here is log: > EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. > VFS: Mounted root (ext3 filesystem) readonly. > Freeing unused kernel memory: 500k freed > Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 860k > Failed to execute /linuxrc. Attempting defaults... > BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer derefence at virtual adress 000000000 > print eip > b7f106d0 > Oops: 0000 [#1] > 8K_STACKS DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > last sysfs file: /block/hda/range > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0073:[] Not tainted VLI > EFLAGS: 00000246 (2.6.18-rc4-mm2 #2) > EIP is at 0xb7f106d0 > eax, ebx, edx, ecx, esi, edi, ebp: 0000000 > esp: bf843680 > ds, es, ss: 007b > Process init (pid: 1, ti=c1166000 task=c11615d0 task.ti=c1166000) > EIP: ] 0xb7f106d0 SS:ESP 007b:bf83680 I tried to reproduce this with qemu but wasn't able to work out in less than sixty seconds (== one attention-span) how to find and use a suitable userspace image. Help. Could you please suggest where such an image can be obtained and how it should be invoked to reproduce this? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/