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NF
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 Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:07 pm Post subject: Dell Latitude CSx crashing [SOLVED] |
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A few days ago I managed to install Gentoo 2006.1 on my old laptop from stage3. However, problems started to arise after installing X and gdm. Now whenever I want to switch from X to a tty and try to login (I get to the point where you type the username) the whole system crashes with a message similar to this:
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Oops: 0000 [#1]
Modules linked in:
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[<c013c633>] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00210046 (2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #4)
EIP is at free_block+0x42/0xcc
eax: 952412dc ebx: c7f460d0 ecx: 12000201 edx: 00000000
esi: 00000470 edi: c7f3c840 ebp: 00000000 esp: c1125f24
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process events/0 (pid: 3, threadinfo=c1124000 task=c7fd5030)
Stack: c11f5210 00000134 c7f460d0 c7f460d0 00000134 c7f460c0 c7f3c840 c013c720
00000000 c11a5720 00000000 c7f3c840 c7f3c888 c013d548 00000000 00000000
c04a6fc4 c7fc77c0 00200286 00000000 c011cb09 c013d511 c7fc77c8 c7fc77c0
Call Trace:
<c013c720> drain_array+0x63/0x7d <c013d548> cache_reap+0x37/0x10c
<c011cb09> run_workqueue+0x69/0x96 <c013d511> cache_reap+0x0/0x10c
<c011ce16> worker_thread+0x0/0x10e <c011cef1> worker_thread+0xdb/0x10e
<c010f0d2> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc <c011ee66> kthread+0x91/0xbd
<c011edd5> kthread+0x0/0xbd <c0100ac5> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
Code: 00 8b 44 24 08 8b 34 a8 8d 96 00 00 00 40 c1 ea 0c c1 e2 05 03 15 30 66 4a c0 8b 02 f6 c4 40 74 03 8b 52 0c 8b 4a 1c 8b 54 24 20 <8b> 41 04 8b 5c 97 14 8b 11 89 42 04 89 10 31 d2 2b 71 0c c7 01
EIP: [c013c633>] free_block+0x42/0xcc SS:ESP 0068:c1125f24
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When I've disabled xdm/gdm from running at boot, everything seems to work ok. I haven't checked but I think so as I didn't have these crashes before GDM and Xorg. Through Xorg everything seems to work but when you get out of X things start breaking apart. I get similar crash when trying to power off the laptop via GDM, but if I power off via xterm there's no problem.
I've tried recompiling Xorg and GDM, even the kernel (I've tried several different kernel configurations), but I don't seem to get rid of that annoying crash.
Any help when it comes to solving this problem is welcome and appreciated. 
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beatryder
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have you tried a revdep-rebuild?
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NF
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 4:23 am Post subject: |
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| beatryder wrote: | | have you tried a revdep-rebuild? |
Thanks for the reply. I did try it, but it says there are no packages to be re-emerged. I also did a bit of research into the problem, it seems that I don't even have to type anything to the login screen for it to crash. When I switch to a tty and wait 2-4 seconds, the crash just happens. |
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Post your make.conf please
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phorn
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:17 am Post subject: |
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Well this is probably a kernel problem. You shouldn't ever get an Oops message from the kernel.
Can you paste your ".config" file?
You can usually find it in a few places:
/usr/src/linux-someversion/.config
zcat /proc/config.gz > my.config
Or it may be in /boot/ as config-VersionNumber
Any idea if you can build a standard kernel (kernel-sources, not gentoo-sources)?
If you still get this crash, you may be able to post it as a bug to the Linux Kernel bug site at http://bugzilla.kernel.org/
You may also want to try disabling GDM.I believe you can use:
| Code: | rc-update del gdm # Disable GDM
rc-update add gdm default # Enable it again. |
To manually start the X server, type "startx" |
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NF
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| Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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| Some updates: I emerged, configured and compiled the vanilla-sources and the problem doesn't seem to be there anymore when running vanilla-kernel so the problem was probably a misconfiguration in the gentoo-kernel. I haven't had time to compare the configs of the kernels, but I'll see if I can find some time to check them out. |
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