Bug 81144

Summary:	Kernel panic while emerging ncurses-5.4-r5 on 2.6.10-r6
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Hannes Erven <h.e>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo Kernel Bug Wranglers and Kernel Maintainers <kernel>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	critical
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Hannes Erven 2005-02-07 10:38:32 UTC

I added some USE flags (e.g. unicode) and did a emerge --update --deep --newuse world ; emerge says it will merge 24 packages, starting with ncurses-5.4-r5 .

I tried three times now (once with emerge --ask ncurses only), and got three kernel panics -- I've screendumped the last one. I cannot swore, but I think the first one was different (Kernel Panic:Not syncing)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge --update ncurses
Actual Results:  
Console output (via SSH):

Compilation seems to work out fine, but at
>>> Merging sys-libs/ncurses-5.4-r5 to /
--- /etc/
--- /etc/env.d/
>>> /etc/env.d/50ncurses
--- /etc/terminfo/
--- /etc/terminfo/a/
>>> /etc/terminfo/a/ansi
--- /etc/terminfo/d/
>>> /etc/terminfo/d/dumb
--- /etc/terminfo/l/
>>> /etc/terminfo/l/linux
--- /etc/terminfo/r/
>>> /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt
--- /etc/terminfo/s/


and there it hangs. The console shows a "kernel panic",
CPU0: Running in modulated clock mode
CPU1: Running in modulated clock mode
Oops: 0002 [#10]
PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: eeprom lm85 ic2_sensor i2c_i801 i2c_core ppp_deflate bsd_comp
ppp_async ppp_generic slhc
CPU:	1752645165
EIP:	0060:[<c01107hb9>]	Tainted: G	M  VLI
EFLAGS:	00010002	(2.6.10-gentoo-r6)
EIP is at smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x29/0xf0
eax: 3b9f1680	ebx: c04e3488	ecx: 00000000	edx: ecdf6000
esi: ecdf7d84	edi: ecdf66cc	ebp: e8b0b018	esp: ecdf66b0
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 616a2edf
 printig eip:
 c011411c
 *pde = 00000000
_

Expected Results:  
Update ncurses w/o trouble.

Portage 2.0.51-r15 (default-linux/x86/2004.3, gcc-3.3.5,
glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16
Python:              dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jan 30 2005, 00:00:34)]
dev-lang/python:     2.3.4
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.59-r6, 2.13
sys-devel/automake:  1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.9.4
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.10-r4
virtual/os-headers:  2.4.21-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /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/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config
/var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.inode.at ftp://mirror.nutsmaas.nl/gentoo/
http://gentoo.mirror.sdv.fr http://www.gigaload.org/gentoo.org/
ftp://ftp.join.uni-muenster.de/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
MAKEOPTS="-j3"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 X acpi apache2 apm arts avi bash-completion berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr
crypt cups dvd encode esd ethereal f77 fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran
gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 hardend imagemagick imap imlib ipv6 jpeg libg++ libwww mad
maildir mikmod motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl oss pam pcre
pdflib perl php png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell
ssl svga tcltk tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicode usb xml2
xmms xv zlib"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

Comment 1 Hannes Erven 2005-02-11 05:26:54 UTC

Today I checked my portage tree and found: 
*  sys-libs/ncurses
      Latest version available: 5.4-r5
      Latest version installed: 5.4-r5
      Size of downloaded files: 2,103 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html
      Description: console display library
      License:     MIT

So I guess that ebuild was installed silently when I installed something else... since the system now runs stable as ever, and I'm not able to reproduce the kernel panic I'll mark the bug report INVALID.