Bug 20296 – Kernel panic - gentoo-sources2.4.20-r3

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Description Jill Mitchell 2003-05-01 18:09:01 UTC]

Kernel panicked when doing partition check. This did not happen when booting
from a stage1 cd from 1.4-rc3, nor when booting from a vanilla 2.4.20 kernel I
keep on a floppy.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Boot with a second hard drive attached as /dev/hde
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Kernel panic

Expected Results:  
booted into Gentoo

I can't get to it; I (currently) have no net connection from Gentoo. Search for
bugs with my name on them as reporter, I just filed one yesterday with
up-to-date information.

[Comment 1 Jill Mitchell 2003-05-01 18:26:29 UTC]

Created attachment 11369 [details]
Transcription of the core dump following the panic event

[Comment 2 Jill Mitchell 2003-05-01 18:30:11 UTC]

Here's my emerge -info report from yesterday. I changed nothing.

Portage 2.0.47-r10 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.2, glibc-2.3.2-r1)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2100+
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config
/usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config
/usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY=""
USE="x86 apm libg++ mikmod ncurses nls pdflib quicktime spell xml2 zlib gtkhtml
gdbm berkdb slang guile tcpd pam libwww python imlib motif X gtk2 gtk gnome
bonobo cdr cups avi directfb dvd fbcom gpm 3dnow java qt gif jpeg mpeg mozilla
maildir mmx opengl oss perl png readline ssl tcltk truetype xmms crypt esd kde
apic nvidia dga sse sdl svga ggi oggvorbis aalib xv fbcon encode alsa arts"
COMPILER="gcc3"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -fexpensive-optimizations -fPIC -fomit-frame-pointer
-fforce-addr -finline-functions -foptimize-sibling-calls
-fdelete-null-pointer-checks -fno-cprop-registers -frerun-loop-opt
-frename-registers -fmove-all-movables -freorder-blocks"
CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -funroll-loops -falign-functions=4
-fprefetch-loop-arrays -fexpensive-optimizations -fPIC -fomit-frame-pointer
-fforce-addr -finline-functions -foptimize-sibling-calls
-fdelete-null-pointer-checks -fno-cprop-registers -frerun-loop-opt
-frename-registers -fmove-all-movables -freorder-blocks"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
FEATURES="sandbox ccache"

[Comment 3 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-05-01 18:39:40 UTC]

please post your .config used when compiling gentoo-sources-2.4.20-r3. 
 
Thanks, 
 
Jay 

[Comment 4 Jill Mitchell 2003-05-02 07:13:38 UTC]

I'll post my config ASAP ...having connection troubles from linux just now, and can't access the file from within windows :(

For what it's worth, I did NOT compile support for microsoft file systems into the kernel.

[Comment 5 Jill Mitchell 2003-05-06 16:48:23 UTC]

Created attachment 11597 [details]
Kernel configuration file

As requested

[Comment 6 Jill Mitchell 2003-05-06 16:50:22 UTC]

Created attachment 11598 [details]
Kernel configuration file

As requested

[Comment 7 Jill Mitchell 2003-05-06 16:51:01 UTC]

Created attachment 11599 [details]
Kernel configuration file

As requested

[Comment 8 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-05-08 03:01:56 UTC]

what model of mb do you have? i going to take a stab and guess that hde is on a promise controller? if so, here is your issue:
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PDC202XX is not set

You need to enable that.

Otherwise, please post system hardware such as ide controller(s). The sched.c bug as you have it shown is usually because proper ide support has not been compiled into the kernel or loaded via initrd if compiled as a module.

Have a good one,

Jay

[Comment 9 Jill Mitchell 2003-05-09 16:32:22 UTC]

Jay, 

Your comment was exactly right. I just recompiled my kernel with that change, plugged the hard drive in question back in, and have mounted one of the partitions on it.

[Comment 10 Jay Pfeifer (RETIRED) 2003-05-09 16:45:09 UTC]

ok, glad to hear it was fixed and was not a kernel issue but just an oversight. 
 
Jay