On Sat, 2010-06-19 at 23:39 -0400, trouble daemon wrote: > 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. Wow, that log shows some serious trouble. My guess is that something has gone wrong with interrupt routing. Can you try adding 'acpi=noirq' to the kernel parameters? > 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 [...] If my first suggestion doesn't work, can you also try a more recent kernel version such as 2.6.32 (currently in testing) and 2.6.34 (currently in experimental)? Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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