Bug#405804: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686: Kernel panic on boot
Package: linux-image-2.6.18-3-686
Version: 2.6.18-8
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable
During booting 2.6.18-6 the kernel panics with the following message:
<0> Kernel panic - not syncing.
Attempted to kill init!
The call trace is:
pcibios_sort + 0x9e/0x154
pcibios_allocate_resources + 0x103/0x115
pcibios_init + 0x67/0x6a
init + 0x111/0x286
ret_from_fork + 0x6/0x1c
init + 0x0/0x286
init + 0x0/0x286
kernel_thread_helper + 0x5/0xb
The output of lspci is:
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 915G/P/GV Processor to I/O
Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82915G Express
Chipset Family Graphics Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1b.0 0403: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High
Definition Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC
Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6
Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA
Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family)
SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:02:03.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): VIA Technologies, Inc. IEEE 1394 Host
Controller (rev 46)
0000:02:04.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6410 ATA133
RAID controller (rev 06)
0000:03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751
Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
Searching on the web suggested adding 'pci=nosort' to the boot line
(people had similar problems with Fedora and SuSE).
This does indeed work for me, however, I still think something needs
fixing within the kernel.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (650, 'testing'), (600, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-686
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.18-3-686 depends on:
ii coreutils 5.97-5 The GNU core utilities
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.4.30.13 Debian configuration management sy
ii module-init-tools 3.3-pre3-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii yaird [linux-initramfs-tool] 0.0.12-18 Yet Another mkInitRD
-- debconf information:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.18-3-686:
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.18-3-686: true
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.18-3-686: false
linux-image-2.6.18-3-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.18-3-686:
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