While installing 1.4 from the livecd on my Shuttle SN45G (an nforce-based system), I invariably get a kernel panic while untarring or copying files onto the harddrive. Here's a sample oops: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 usb-ohci ehci-hcd nvnet ohci1394 ieee1394 floppy serial isa-pnp usbcore cloop CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: c010b840 ebx: c15e033c ecx: c118ff30 edx: c118fb58 esi: c118ff30 edi: ddf4d514 ebp: 00002fcc esp: d3b5bc24 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process tar (pid: 1487, stackpage=d3b5b000) Stack: c020844e dd93dcf0 c118ff30 00001000 00000000 00000000 00000000 ddf4d460 de811120 d3b5bc80 d3b5bc78 dd93dcf0 00005ebc 00000000 00005ebc d3b5bc78 de81122c dd93dcf0 d3b5bc78 d3b5bc80 de811120 02fcbd38 00000000 000002c8 Call Trace: [<c020844e>] . . (<-- I got tired of transcribing, so I've omitted much of the Call Trace.) . Code: Bad EIP value I get this panic running the gentoo, acpi, or smp kernels, regardless of the filesystem on the hd, and even after starting the kernel w/ "nodetect". (Actually, I get the same panic on two different boxes, as I have to shuttles, so it's not just a hardware problem.) I used to have Gentoo installed on these boxes w/o problems, so I'm Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
CCing drobbins and pfeifer
For whatever it's worth, I don't get a kernel panic using Bob's 15 July livecd (w/ kde and gnome, if I remember correctly). *Shrug*
*** Bug 26421 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
old bug, reopen if necessary
