Bug#528989: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64: Kernel errors when inserting memory card
On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 04:20:59AM +0200, Christoph Franzen wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.26-2-amd64
> Version: 2.6.26-15lenny2
> Severity: important
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm using Lenny (AMD64 with proposed updates) on a HP Pavilion dv9668eg laptop with
> an internal card reader and a Turion X2 TL-60 dual core processor.
> See also the "lspci" ans "lsmod" outputs below.
>
> Whenever a SD or SDHC card is inserted into the card reader,
> the system fails randomly, but always, after some
> subsequent accesses with one of these symptoms:
>
> - Kernel Oops messages
> - Fsck erronneously reporting a damages file system
> - Complete system freezes (only "Alt-Sysrq-b" works)
> - Other kernel error messages
>
> Write accesses would probably lead to severe damage of the cards' data structures.
>
> This is an example of an error message
> a few seconds after inserting a 2GB SD card
> and immediately before a complete system freeze:
>
> =================================================
> Message from syslogd@christoph11 at Sat May 16 22:49:27 2009 ...
> christoph11 kernel: [14478.647829] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>
> Message from syslogd@christoph11 at Sat May 16 22:49:27 2009 ...
> christoph11 kernel: [14478.647838] invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP
>
> Message from syslogd@christoph11 at Sat May 16 22:49:27 2009 ...
> christoph11 kernel: [14478.648103] Code: e5 75 1c 49 8b 6c 24 20 49 8d 44 24 20 41 c7 44 24 60 01 00 00 00 48 39 c5 0f 84 a4 00 00 00 8b 45 20 41 3b 87 18 01 00 00 72 24 <0f> 0b eb fe 41 8b 5d 00 8b 54 24 04 48 89 ee 4c 89 ff e8 74 f0
> =================================================
>
> Due to my lack of an idea what exactly is going on,
> I did not yet report this to upstream with the
> exception of using the "Oops message reporting tool"
> a few times (whenever it was automatically triggered).
>
> Further below you find the standard information added by "reportbug".
>
> Thanks for your fine operating system, best regards, Christoph
>
> =================================================
> -- Package-specific info:
> ** Version:
> Linux version 2.6.26-2-amd64 (Debian 2.6.26-15lenny2) (dannf@debian.org) (gcc version 4.1.3 20080704 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.2-25)) #1 SMP Wed May 13 15:37:46 UTC 2009
>
> ** Command line:
> root=/dev/sdb1 ro
>
> ** Tainted: P (1)
Sorry for the late response.
First of all we should rule out that the Nvidia kernel module is
causing trouble. Does the error also occur if they're not loaded?
As a next step we should test, whether this has been fixed upstream
in the mean time. Please install a 2.6.30 kernel from backports.org
to test whether this is the case. If so, we can try to identify if
isolated patches can resolve the problem for the Lenny kernel and
apply them for a point update.
Cheers,
Moritz
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