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FS#12077 - Crash on Load Modules

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dani (compengi) - Monday, 10 November 2008, 14:33 GMT-5
Last edited by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Thursday, 11 December 2008, 02:37 GMT-5
Task Type Bug Report
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Assigned
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Thomas Bächler (brain0)
Architecture i686
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2008.06
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
I'm having issues during ArchLinux load on my HP Compaq nx5000 laptop. Sometimes during the boot or reboot (it happens in both cases), the system either hanges on `Load Modules` and doesn't display any trace, or it just crashes on load. But, in both cases you would need to shut down your laptop and boot it up again. Sometimes it happens consequently so you would require to boot couple of times to load into the system, or sometimes it just loads normaly without any problem.

PS: See `backtrace` file for the backtrace on the crash. I wrote this trace down from the monitor, so I hope I recopied it correctly.

Additional info:
* uname -a: Linux compengi 2.6.27-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sat Nov 8 10:11:43 UTC 2008 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1500MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
* xf86-video-intel 2.3.2-1 (Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02))
* alsa-lib 1.0.18-1
- alsa-utils 1.0.18-1
- alsa-oss 1.0.17-1
(Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01))
* lsmod|grep '^snd':
- snd_ac97_codec 100516 2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0
- snd 50724 15 snd_pcsp
* lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 81)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 01)
01:04.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter (rev 04)
01:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
01:06.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI7420 CardBus Controller
01:06.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCI7420/7620 Combo CardBus, 1394a-2000 OHCI and SD/MS-Pro Controller
01:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
01:0e.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

* /var/log/: My system crashed on Nov 10 19:47:11, So I added all the /var/log/ log lines during that instant, previous boot and next successive boots (Please see the attachment 'Logs During Crash Instant').

Steps to reproduce:
There are no specific steps to reproduce it. It occurs during the system boot or a reboot
   backtrace (1.2 KiB)
   Logs During Crash Instant (4.1 KiB)
   dmesg.log (24.6 KiB)
   kernel.log (76.4 KiB)
   messages.log (66.1 KiB)
This task depends upon

2008-12-10: A task closure has been requested. Reason for request: Upstream.
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Thursday, 13 November 2008, 11:24 GMT-5
Can you please blacklist the ethernet/wireless modules and see if the problem still occurs?
Comment by Dani (compengi) - Friday, 14 November 2008, 09:53 GMT-5
I blacklisted wireless module "ipw2100" and tried to reboot/shutdown many times and load into the system, no sign of crash.
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Friday, 14 November 2008, 09:59 GMT-5
Then it's probably a race condition. You should file a bugreport at kernel.org.
Comment by Dani (compengi) - Friday, 14 November 2008, 22:04 GMT-5
This would sound now funny http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12030#c1
Comment by Dani (compengi) - Sunday, 23 November 2008, 14:38 GMT-5
It's an interesting situation, here they say it's kernel's bug and there they nothing to blame us, contact your distributor. And at the end the end-user bares the consequences. Maybe someone could tell me what on earth is going on?
Comment by Glenn Matthys (RedShift) - Sunday, 23 November 2008, 14:53 GMT-5
Dani forgot to mention in the bugreport that blacklisting ipw2100 solves his problem... So the orginal bug reporter failed to submit a proper bugreport to kernel.org.
Comment by Thomas Bächler (brain0) - Thursday, 11 December 2008, 02:56 GMT-5
Dani, you probably have to compile your own kernel with vanilla sources from kernel.org and reproduce the problem there to get help on kernel.org. I can just say that we don't apply "random patches" as they claim. Only ACPI got some, but that is not involved here, and some drivers (not the wireless drivers) get bugfixes.

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