[solved I think] Kernel Panic on shutdown

lyallp · Last edited by lyallp on Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:08 am; edited 1 time in total

Using latest Kernel with ati-drivers. (My gentoo system is right up to date as at 16-Mar-2006)

I do a shutdown and when 'entranced' is shut down, the kernel panics

Oops: 0002 (#1)
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: ntfs ati_pci ath_rate_sample wlan ath_hal fglrx e100 mii

plus lots more that won't paste here.

I have tried doing a make clean in the kernel source tree and re-building and installing, followed by an emerge ati-drivers

Everything seems to work fine till shutdown.

Help!
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loki99 · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:51 am Post subject:

Does this only happen when you logout of X?

If yes, you might want to take a look at this and this.

lyallp · Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2006 3:19 am Post subject:

It does not happen when I logout of X.

I leave 'entranced' at the login screen, it's when the shutown process terminates the entranced process that things fail.
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lyallp · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 7:15 am Post subject:

Any suggestions as to how I gather more information (rather than copying down the screen)

Is there such a thing as 'savecore' or similar whereby a copy of the vm can be written to a file for analysis?

Just how would I go about trying to trouble shoot this?
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lyallp · Posted: Mon Apr 03, 2006 9:45 pm Post subject:

My kernel panic is still happening.

Happens when I stop xdm (not when I logout of X and it re-starts), only when I use /etc/init.d/xdm stop.

At the moment, I am manually shutting down each non xdm service and doing a 'sync' prior to attempting the xdm shutdown and subsequent kernel panic.

No suggestions as to how I work on this problem?
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Skillshot · n00b Joined: 20 Nov 2002 Posts: 70 Location: KA, Germany

Hi,

i have exactly the same problem. Nearly every time i shutdown my system i get a kernel panic on "xdm stop" ... I do also use the ati-drivers. I'm going to try different versions (again ...) ...

Greetings, Skillshot

hiroki · Posted: Thu May 11, 2006 11:55 pm Post subject:

i think you're having the same problem as described here

lyallp · Posted: Sun May 14, 2006 9:55 am Post subject:

Unfortunately not.

Mine is a complete failure of the kernel on gdm shutdown.

I can login to X environments, logout, login, logout no problems (I use fluxbox).

Once my panic is displayed, my machine is dead in the water. Hard reset required to restart.

Curiously, the problem appears to have gone away with the latest release of the ATI Drivers I installed last week. I have not been around for a week so I will have to 'be brave' and try a normal shutdown soon.
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lyallp · Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:08 am Post subject: [solved] I think

I think the problem arises if you emerge the ati-drivers against a /usr/src/linux that is not currently installed or being booted against.

For example I probably had the kernel built in this directory but had not got around to installing it.
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sebbothebutcher · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 52 Location: Vienna

i've been experiencing the same problem, but unkeywording the latest ati-drivers
(ati-drivers-8.25.18) and using the latest stable gentoo-sources (2.6.16-r9) worked
fine for me. no more kernel panics here.