When booting the livecd 1.4_rc4 with gentoo doscsi, the folling append: found aic7xxx ... everything works fine until ---- Copying and symlinking files from CD to populate / then everything freezes (I guess, 5 min and I turn it off!) huh! I try to boot again, without any options that time I went to the prompt... But my second hard drive (supposed to be /dev/sdb or /dev/scsi/host0/lun0/device1 ) isn't here... the hard drive is an IBM 9.1 GB 4mb cash 10Krpm with a 1GB swap and the other space for /home @ ext3fs... when boot with MS windows, everything works and partition magic is able to copy the entire disk as well as partitions to my other hard drive... I continue at the prompt, I lsmod, and aic7xxx is here (unused) that's why I am able to access sda. then I rmmod aic7xxx. It works fine. No more sd devices. Then the bug appens : insmod aic7xxx It begins with probing and scanning luns and buses the bug is coming now : the first lines go too fast so I can't write them down, but I know that the missing things look like that : ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Code : XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX <X>Xxxxxxx xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx /*Then I got it right on the paper!*/ printing eip: e88c49ef *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<e88c49ef>] tainted: GF EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: 00000000 ebx: 000003e8 ecx: df2df46c edx: c03955c4 esi: df2df400 edi: df64c000 ebp: df2df400 esp: dde09f60 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ahc_dv_0 (pid: 4817, stackpage = dde09000) Stack : df2df400 000003e8 dfe5fe00 df64c000 df2df400 e88c66f0 df2df400 e88c7958 df2df46c 000003e8 e88c77d0 df911b04 dde08000 00000297 00000007 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 00000041 00000001 dde09fe0 00000001 dfe5fe00 Call Trace : [<e88c66f0>] [<e88c7958>] [<e88c77d0>] [<e88c64e8>] [<c010709e>] [<e88c639c>] Code : 8b 58 78 8b 44 24 1c 89 86 58 01 00 00 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 <1>Unable to handle Kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000078 printing eip: e88c77de *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<e88c77de>] tainted: GF EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: 00000000 ebx: df2df46c ecx: df2df400 edx: c0395afc esi: e88c77d0 edi: fffffffe ebp: 00000046 esp: c0391124 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process swapper (pid:0, stackpage = c0371000) Stack: c0395afc df2df46c effc77d0 fffffffe c011df81 df2df400 c037113c c037113c 00000000 c038ca30 fffffffe 00000046 c011ab82 c011aab7 00000000 00000001 c011a82f c038ca30 c038c900 00000000 c0371194 c033103c c0109b20 00005c7e Call Trace: /*the trace is too long for me, but I quoted it so if you really need it to help, please ask for , I apologize for unconvinience but It's pretty boring me!*/ Code : 8b 58 78 89 e7 c7 04 24 00 00 00 00 9c 72 04 24 fa 8b 81 84 <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There we are! This is all. A problem also append when I boot with my custom kernel (from gentoo sources 2.4.20-r5 : The second disk produce an error and the system boots with only one hard drive, (the first, again) and sdb is not available. As it contains the /home directory, my users can't log on... Also swap isn't on! because it is supposed to be on sdb1, which doesn't exist! I will try to boot with another kernel later... For now, I'll back my paritions... :( I really hope you'll be able to provide me some help. Tanguy Moal tanguy.moal.tux@wanadoo.fr P.S.: I hope my english is readable, I am french native! Thank you for listening to your users, gentoo is just so good!
Created attachment 15217 [details] This file describes the kernel logs gathered at /var/log/kernel/ This isn't essential, just verbose the behavior of the kernel
Created attachment 15218 [details] This file describes the kernel logs gathered at /var/log/kernel/ This isn't essential, just verbose the behavior of the kernel
Created attachment 15661 [details] The attachment is empty, I only used the comment field. The problem *should* be in the gentoo sources patches in the aic7xxx part : the problem doesn't exist with vanilla-sources. In addition, the problem is really weird in the way that it used to work, I mean for two weeks of daily use, and then a morning, at boot up, it crashed... May be the bug is inside my board... I really don't know! (I am not able to understand the kernel logs) But if I knew what it all meant, I would have help. Anyway, I am still having difficulties with thread and signals in system programming, so I guess I won't be able to hack kernel sources until I know how to do system programming... :) Please tell me if you resolve the problem (may an email will be sent to me automatically ?) so that I can switch back to gentoo-sources, which really improves system speed. Thank you.
This bug has been inactive for a while. Could you try the latest gentoo-sources again and reopen the bug if the problem persists?
