I have a Dell Dimension 8300 with Pentium 4 3.0 GHz and Bios Revision A05 (latest). When I enable Hyper Threading, sometimes I get a kernel panic with the following message: Call Trace: [<c027a04c>] psmouse_interrupt+0xa3/0x2da [<c027cb76>] serio_interrupt+0x7b/0x7d [<c027d3ee>] i8042_interrupt+0xc9/0x15d [<c027d141>] i8042_aux_write+0x54/0x68 [<c027a317>] psmouse_sendbyte+0x94/0x96 [<c027a494>] psmouse_command+0x17b/0x188 [<c027a585>] genius_detect+0x2c/0xb5 [<c027a81f>] psmouse_extensions+0x101/0x1b9 [<c027a931>] psmouse_probe+0x5a/0x85 [<c027ac99>] psmouse_connect+0x102/0x27b [<c027c796>] serio_find_dev+0x56/0x58 [<c027cbb3>] serio_register_port+0x3b/0x52 [<c0574d67>] i8042_port_register+0x68/0x89 [<c0574fd5>] i8042_init+0x18e/0x193 [<c0574b01>] serio_init+0x1f/0x41 [<c0560872>] do_initcalls+0x27/0xb3 [<c013008c>] init_workqueues+0x17/0x2e [<c01004c3>] init+0x96/0x25b [<c010042d>] init+0x0/0x25b [<c0103271>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: Bad EIP value. <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! This problem appears with every 2.6 kernel up to the newest 2.6.7-gentoo-r13, I haven't tried with 2.4. Sometimes the system boots fine, sometimes the error mentioned above happens and sometimes an other error is shown (something with acpi, I'm not sure because it happened only a few times and I don't remember the message.) My, a bit unnormal, workaround is to wait for the fan to slow down, because the probability for a perfect boot is higher then ( I don't know why! ) Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Expected Results:
Does this also happen on a stock 2.6.7 kernel from kernel.org?
I'm not really sure about that, but I think so, because other distributions like SuSE and Debian Sid had similar problems.
I tested the vanilla kernel from kernel.org (version 2.6.7) and it gave me that: printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010206 (2.6.7) EIP is at 0x0 eax: c0595fb8 ebx: ftc02000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 000000fa input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1 esi: 000000 edi: 000000fa ebp: c0504740 esp: c0597f68 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process kirqd (pid: 43, thread info=c0597000 task=f7dcd260) Stack: c032f3d0 f7c02000 c0595fb8 <6>serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq1 c0595fb8 c0105a50 0000003f 000000fa 000000fa 000000fa c0595fb8 c0331efa c0504740 000000fa 00000000 c0595fb8 0000003d 00000020 c0332772 c0504740 000000fa 00000000 c0595fb8 c1bb7828 04000001 Call Trace: Stack pointer is garbage, not printing trace Code: Bad EIP value. <0> Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt In Interrupt handler - not syncing Maybe there are some copy mistakes - sorry for that - but I don't know how to handle it digital. Is it possible to capture the kernel-log over serial-port on a second computer or something?
By the way: It works fine with Windows XP - so it can't be any hardware defect
Ok, please try the 2.6.8 kernel, and if that still gives you the same error, report it at bugzilla.kernel.org, as it's an upstream bug, nothing we can do about it here from the gentoo side, sorry.
Same problem with 2.6.8 Doesn't matter, thanks for help.
Installed Debian Sarge just now and it seems as if it doesn't has the problem - so there must be a patch.
