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Bug#504655: marked as done (debian-installer: Kernel panic when velocity driver started)

Your message dated Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:30:09 +0200
with message-id <20090813213009.GA16453@galadriel.inutil.org>
and subject line Re: via-velocity panic: fixed in 2.6.30
has caused the Debian Bug report #504655,
regarding debian-installer: Kernel panic when velocity driver started
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Package: debian-installer
Severity: important
Version: 20081105

Tried to install Debian Lenny on a VIA EPIA SN (VIA C7, i386 arch)
board today. This one has a VIA Rhine II (VT6102) and a VIA Velocity
(VT6120/VT6121/VT6122) NIC.

When detecting the network cards, the kernel panics. In the log I saw
that the panic happened while "ip" was running.

The panic hasn't happened with an old, 2.6.24 based Lenny installer I
tried first (but didn't seem to have LVM support).

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11121 seems to be exactly
the problem I have. Looks like the problem has been introduced with
2.6.26, so it's really a regression.

Tried the Installer from 29. Oct. 2008 (AFAIK RC1) as well as the
daily snapshot from today (5. Nov. 2008).

Workaround is to add "pci=noacpi" at the boot prompt as reported in
the comments to the above mentioned kernel bug report.

		Regards, Axel
-- 
Axel Beckert - abe@deuxchevaux.org - http://noone.org/abe/

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Version: 2.6.30-1

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 06:24:10PM +0100, Matthew Astley wrote:
> I have an SN10000EG rev.A1 which suffered the same problem when
> installing Lenny.
> 
> (System locks up, no response from keyboard, caps-lock and scroll-lock
> flashing.  Booting with pci=noacpi or avoiding bringing up GbE prevent
> the problem.)
> 
> I compiled[1] 2.6.30 and this problem went away.  I haven't attempted
> to find out which commit fixed the problem but could be persuaded to
> investigate git-bisect if it's important.  Kernel compile takes around
> an hour.
> 
> The "eth0: excessive work at interrupt." still occurs if I flog netcat
> in both directions at once (~22MiB/sec).

Thanks, marking 2.6.30 as the fixed version. If you can identify a single
commit (or a small series) of isolated bugfixes we can consider a backport
to a stable kernel update. Otherwise you should stick to a kernel from
backports.org

Cheers,
        Moritz

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