Running hcfpciconfig after emerging hcfpcimodem 1.01.04082400 causes the machine to crash Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge "=hcfpcimodem 1.01.04082400" 2. hcfpciconfig 3. crash - bang - wallop! Actual Results: The machine crashes (freezes up) and a hard reboot is necessary. Upon reboot Coldplug hangs. I used the LiveCD to remove coldplug from init.d Expected Results: Complete the configuration. This is what I copied from the frozen screen (forgive any typos): [<d6a67122>] cnxthwpci_init+ 0x122/0x134 [hcfpcihw] [<c01338a1>] sys_init_module+ 0x121/0x2c0 [<c0105d79>] sysenter_past_esp+ 0x52/071 Code: 0f 0b 34 00 08 6f 4c c0 e9 0c f6 ff ff e8 e3 6f 30 00 e9 18 <1>Unable to handl kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000069 printing eip: c0116467 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT Modules linked in: hcfpcihw hcfpciserial hcfpciengine hcfpciosspec CPU: 0 EIP: 0060: [<c0116467>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010017 (2.6.8-gentoo-r10) EIP is at do_page_fault+0x47/0x5a1 eax: 00000001 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 0000007b edx: 00010001 esi: 00000000 edi: c0116420 ebp: 00000001 esp: c0624014 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process syslog-ng (pid: 8062, threadinfo=c0623000 task=d30be6a0) Stack: 00010001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000069 00000000 cad942e0 00030001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 Call Trace: Stack pointer is garbage, not priniting trace Code: 8b 5d 68 81 ff ff ff fb 8b 40 14 f7 d0 c1 e8 1f 39 c2 0f <0>Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt In interrupt handler - not syncing. <-- the machine freezes up at this point --> --------------------------------------- I'm sending this from work, please let me know if you need my emerge info. Regards, MickKi
please try the last hcfpcimodem.
I'm afraid it still crashes: :-( Oops: 0000 [#11] PREEMPT Modules linked in: hcfpcihw hcfpciserial hcfpciengine hcfpciosspec CPU: 0 EIP: 0060: [<c01069da>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010002 (2.6.8-gentoo-r10) EIP is at print_context_stack+0x1a/0x80 eax: 6a624f54 ebx: 6a624000 ecx: c0538510 edx: 00000082 esi: 6a624f51 edi: d1dcdbda ebp: 00000001 esp: c06244f8 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000006a printing eip: c0116467 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#12] PREEMPT Modules linked in: hcfpcihw hcfpciserial hcfpciengine hcfpciosspec CPU: 0 EIP: 0060: [<c0116467>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010013 (2.6.8-gentoo-r10) EIP is at do_page_fault+0x47/0x5a1 eax: 00000002 ebx: c06244f8 ecx: 0000007b edx: d3f02000 esi: 00000000 edi: c0116420 ebp: 00000002 esp: c0624024 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process syslog-ng (pid: 8259, threadinfo=c0623000 task=d37d0c50) Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000 cb93bf64 c0589d60 0000006a 07070707 0000000f 00030001 00000004 00000000 d4857600 00000000 00000000 00000007 d3f02000 d1e0f1d0 c13ce140 d3f02234 c0385961 d3f02000 d3f02188 c13ce140 00000001 Call Trace: Stack pointer is garbage, not priniting trace Code: 8b 5d 68 81 e2 ff ff ff fb 8b 40 14 f7 d0 c1 e8 1f 39 c2 0f In interrupt handler - not syncing. <-- the machine freezes up at this point --> Should I move to a 2.6.9 kernel?
Forgot! This is my emerge info: # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, .6.8-gentoo-r10 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-gentoo-r10 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.6.6 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.92.0.2-r1 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/hare/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usrkde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://212.219.56.146/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://212.219.6.152/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://212.219.56.131/sites/www.ibiblio.org/getoo/ ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ ftp://mir.zyrianes.net/gentoo/ http://212.29.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.orggentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="X alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cscope cups emacs encode ehereal f77 fam flac flash foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 icc imagemagick imp imlib jpeg kde ldap libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl o6gvorbis oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pda pdflib perl png ppds python qt quickime readline samba scanner sdl slang slp spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype uncode usb userlocale x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib linguas_en_GB linguas_el"
one observation not connected to the case: you should have x86 or ~x86 in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS, not both. I'm not a kernel specialist, but seems that syslog-ng is the process who crash the system. My advice is first to run "emerge --newuse" and "revdep-rebuild". If this isn't working, try closing syslog and see if in this case does work.
did you find the cause of kernel crash?
Sorry Alin, I'm in the process of migrating my system onto a new drive and multiple partitions and left installing hcfpcimodem until the new system is working. As soon as I can get it going - I'm having some trouble with compiling a kernel :-( I will try your suggestions and see if it works. Thank you for your help!
closed because state of this bug remained the same after one month. feel free to reopen it if you still have this problem.
Hi Alin, Sorry for taking me so long to get back to you. I have eventually re-installed afresh on a new faster drive (running 2.6.9-gentoo-r13). I emerged net-dialup/hcfpcimodem-1.01.04111200 on my new system and then started running hcfpciconfig. The machine froze again at this stage: ----------------------------------------- Where is the linux source build directory that matches your running kernel? [/lib/modules/2.6.9-gentoo-r13/build] Please wait . . . done WARNING: /etc/runlevels not yet supported error: 'kernel modprobe' is an unknown key <-- the machine freezes at this stage --> ----------------------------------------- Upon rebooting the machine crashes with a kernel panic (fatal exception in interrupt) similar to the error described at the first message. I'm guessing here that the crash takes place when the coldplug rc scripts kick in during booting. This is my new emerge info: ----------------------------------------- # emerge info Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r13 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1-r2 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -fomit-frame-pointer -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms userlocales userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/ http://212.219.56.162/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/pub/gentoo/ ftp://212.219.56.152/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ ftp://ftp.snt.utwente.nl/pub/os/linux/gentoo http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl alsa apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode fam flac foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imagemagick ipv6 jpeg kde libwww mad mikmod motif mpeg ncurses nls nptl oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline sdl spell ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib" ----------------------------------------- Running a winmodem is not critical for me, although I wouldn't mind being able to send/receive faxes without having to reboot into Windoze. Regards, Mick
try it with with coldplug disabled (rc-update del coldplug default).
new version have emerged. if it doesn't work either, you should contact linuxant. I cannot do a thing.
I have eventually managed for the first time to get my modem working! I'm now running net-dialup/hcfpcimodem-1.06. -- Regards, Mick
