Using the LiveCD (dated 07-08-2003) to install Gentoo 1.4, I received, more than once, a kernel error ("panic" as you call it?) while doing a regular emerge. The system crashes completely and I have to redo the installation ofcourse! I was following the Installation guide from the Docs section. The first occurance was when emerging genkernel. My laptop had been on for quite a while at that time so I tought it was a one-off. So I started all over again. Genkernel succeeded this time. The story of retries continues but to sum up: I had kernel errors while compiling ati-drivers and xfree-drm too. So I decided to first work off my install this time and then worrying about XFree4.3. Now I am in my installed gentoo system with the gentoo-sources generated kernel and havent had an error yet (and I have been emerging a lot!). I think the source of the problem is that the LiveCD kernel is not 100% working for my Centrino Pentium-M 1.6GHz system, but only 99.999%. So once in a while, in a long compilation, it hangs itself. I myself could not really find any reoccurence or any systematics in the kernel errors, so I dont think I have triggered them in any way. They just seem to happen randomly but always when the CPU is working hard. Below I have added my last error in short (I have to type it over manually twice!). See what you can do with it, although I wouldnt make a too big fuzz. It might still be a (my) human error, and, well, shit happens... Remind you that I am very new to Gentoo. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. kernel error below in short: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c0113a23 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 ppp_synctty ppp_async ppp_generic slhc bcm4400 ohci1394 ieee1394 serial isa-pnp cloop usb-storage hid uhci ehci-hcd usbcore CPU: 0 EIP: 0010 Tainted: GF EFLAGS: 00010002 ... Code: 8b 02 85 c7 75 13 8b 1b 39 f3 75 f1 ff 75 f0 9d 8d 65 f4 5b gcc: Internal error: Segmentatie fout (program as) >>which means Segmentational fault btw PsAttVal.o
Sounds like overheating or something. Either way, please reopen if issue still exists on newer livecds.
