Bug#586494: linux-image-2.6.26-2-686: Dell PowerEdge 4200's don't work with 2.6.26
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-22lenny1
Severity: important
I am using a pair of Dell PowerEdg 4200's that have been working with
debian since 2002 or so, 100% perfectly. However, since testing out
Lenny with a 2.6.26 kernel, it seems that both systems panic in an
unbootable fashion with 2.6.26. On one (this) machine, I even removed
the megaraid card, with the same scsi related crashing/panic.
I have tried a recompile of 2.6.26 with the old aic7xxx module instead
of the new one, but it doesn't seem to make a differece.
This following 2 dmesg dumps are from a serial console that I recorded
earlier and put on pastebin (permanent paste):
- 2.6.26 kernel that panics (latest unmodified debian kernel):
http://pastebin.ca/1886636
- 2.6.18 kernel that works (latest unmodified debian kernel):
http://pastebin.ca/1886641
I am still trying to find out what might have changed since 2002 or
so, up until 2.6.26 that decided to make my dell's into useless
paperweights, but at 5 hours per compile on a make-kpkg after a tree
clean, its highly unlikely that I will be able to track it down
anytime soon. I will try the latest stable vanilla kernel with
everything disabled that I possibly can, and try get at least past the
pivot_root to the real fs. I'll try let you know how it goes.
Help me Obi-Wan Kenobi, you're my only hope.
-- Package-specific info:
** Kernel log: boot messages should be attached
** Model information
not available
** Network interface configuration:
# generated by FAI
auto lo eth0
iface lo inet loopback
iface eth0 inet dhcp
** PCI devices:
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 440FX - 82441FX PMC
[Natoma] [8086:1237] (rev 02)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort+ >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 32
Kernel modules: ipmi_si
00:0d.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21152
[1011:0024] (rev 02) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 255, Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 0000e000-0000efff
Memory behind bridge: fde00000-fdefffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000030000000-00000000300fffff
Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR-
BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR+ NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B-
PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr+ DiscTmrStat+ DiscTmrSERREn-
Kernel modules: shpchp, ipmi_si
00:0f.0 EISA bridge [0602]: Intel Corporation 82375EB/SB PCI to EISA
Bridge [8086:0482] (rev 15)
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 248
Kernel modules: ipmi_si
00:13.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX
[Cyclone] [10b7:9055] (rev 24)
Subsystem: 3Com Corporation 3C905B Fast Etherlink XL 10/100 [10b7:9055]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 80 (2500ns min, 2500ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11
Region 0: I/O ports at f880 [size=128]
Region 1: Memory at fdfffc00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 30100000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 1
Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-)
Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME-
Kernel driver in use: 3c59x
Kernel modules: ipmi_si, 3c59x
00:14.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: ATI Technologies Inc 264VT
[Mach64 VT] [1002:5654] (rev 40) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc Mach64VT Reference [1002:5654]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop+ ParErr-
Stepping+ SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Region 0: Memory at fc000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=16M]
Region 1: I/O ports at f400 [size=256]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 30120000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Kernel modules: ipmi_si
01:0a.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7880U [9004:8078]
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (2000ns min, 2000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at e000 [disabled] [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at fdefd000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at 30000000 [disabled] [size=64K]
Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
Kernel modules: aic7xxx, ipmi_si
01:0b.0 SCSI storage controller [0100]: Adaptec AIC-7860 [9004:6078] (rev 01)
Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV+ VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR+ FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap- 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort-
<TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 64 (1000ns min, 1000ns max), Cache Line Size: 32 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 9
Region 0: I/O ports at e800 [disabled] [size=256]
Region 1: Memory at fdefe000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Kernel driver in use: aic7xxx
Kernel modules: aic7xxx, ipmi_si
** USB devices:
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0.4
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 depends on:
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.92o tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.4-1 tools for managing Linux kernel mo
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 recommends:
ii libc6-i686 2.7-18lenny4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries [i
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 suggests:
ii grub 0.97-47lenny2 GRand Unified Bootloader (Legacy v
pn linux-doc-2.6.26 <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.26-2-686 is related to:
pn firmware-bnx2 <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-bnx2x <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-ipw2x00 <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-ivtv <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-iwlwifi <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-linux <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-linux-nonfree <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-qlogic <none> (no description available)
pn firmware-ralink <none> (no description available)
-- debconf information:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.26-2-686:
shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.26-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.26-2-686: false
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.26-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/abort-install-2.6.26-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: false
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.26-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/initrd-2.6.26-2-686:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.26-2-686: true
linux-image-2.6.26-2-686/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.26-2-686: true
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