Bug 16169 – livecd boot : kernel panic : attemped to kill the idle task!

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description Poul-Erik Hansen 2003-02-21 20:03:46 UTC]

cd: gentoo-basic-x86-1.4_rc2.iso

Screen dump:
ACPI Subsystem revision 20021212
PCI: PCI Bios revision 2.10 entry af 0xfb370 lastbus=1
PCI: Using configuration type 1 ACPI-0263: *** info: GPE Block 0 defined af GPE0
TO GPE15
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference af virtual address 00000018
printing eip:
  00000018
*pde=00000000
Oops:0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<00000018>]  Not tainted
EF1A65: 00010246
 eax: 00000000 ebx: 801078a4 ecx: 00000090 edx: 812cc000
 esi: 812cc000 edi: 812cc000 ebp: ffffc000 esp: 812cdfb0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=812cd000)
stack 8010791e 00000002 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000002d
      00000e1f 00000df2 00000000 00000000 3400007e 803d20ea
      00000000 00000400 00000000 10624dd3
call trace: [<8010791e>] [<8011cfcb>]
Code: Bad EIP value
<0> Kernel panic: Attemped to kill the idel taks!
In Idle taks - no syncing


My Hardware : abit motherboard : AP6 2*866MHz Pentimu III (133MHz)
256 MByte ram

Bios version : 07/24/2001 - YT
Bios ID : 07/24/2001-694x-686B-6A6LJAIEC-YT

I have tryed the CD "gentoo-grp-i686-1.4_rc2.iso" and got the same result
I tryed the "acpi=no" option and got the same result

Can any one help me ?

best regards Poul-Erik Hansen

Reproducible: Always
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[Comment 1 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-02-25 08:03:07 UTC]

try acpi=off , acpi=no is a mistake on livecd 

[Comment 2 Bob Johnson (RETIRED) 2003-04-04 13:06:44 UTC]

need test info 

[Comment 3 Brian Jackson (RETIRED) 2003-09-27 11:50:43 UTC]

is this still an issue?