On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 17:12 +0100, Andrea Spadaccini wrote: > Package: linux-2.6 > Version: 2.6.32-29 > Severity: critical > Justification: breaks the whole system This does *not* break the whole system - the package works for other people and even you are able to reboot into another kernel version. > The system randomly (say, 2 times every 3 boots) shows General Protection Fault > errors at boot time. I don't get to multiuser init levels. [...] > I found in /var/log/syslog.0 a similar trace, but I > don't know if it's the same problem. Here it is: > > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.816204] ------------[ cut here ]------------ > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.817009] kernel BUG at /build/buildd-linux-2.6_2.6.32-28-amd64-EUJiNq/linux-2.6-2.6.32/debian/build/source_amd64_none/mm/slub.c:2969! > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.817895] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.818786] last sysfs file: /sys/module/processor/initstate > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.819697] CPU 0 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] Modules linked in: acpi_cpufreq cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats fuse loop firewire_sbp2 snd_hda_codec_analog snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec snd_hwdep snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm arc4 snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq ecb snd_timer radeon snd_seq_device rtl8187 ttm drm_kms_helper mac80211 led_class cfg80211 drm i2c_algo_bit snd rfkill i2c_i801 soundcore eeprom_93cx6 i2c_core button snd_page_alloc evdev pcspkr asus_atk0110 processor serio_raw ext3 jbd mbcache usbhid hid sg sd_mod crc_t10dif sr_mod cdrom ata_generic pata_jmicron uhci_hcd ahci ata_piix ehci_hcd thermal firewire_ohci firewire_core crc_itu_t sky2 floppy libata scsi_mod thermal_sys usbcore nls_base [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan] > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] Pid: 9, comm: events/0 Not tainted 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 P5K-E > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff810e6e5f>] [<ffffffff810e6e5f>] kfree+0x55/0xcb > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] RSP: 0018:ffff88007fb9bd00 EFLAGS: 00010246 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000001 RCX: ffffffff8118fda5 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] RDX: 0000000000000001 RSI: ffff880001811d10 RDI: ffffea0000000000 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] RBP: ffff880000000000 R08: ffff88007fb9a000 R09: ffffffff81452c20 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] R10: ffff880001812ba0 R11: dead000000200200 R12: ffffffffa000f6b8 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] R13: 0000000000000001 R14: ffff88007ca3f7c0 R15: 000000000000ff91 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff880001800000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] CR2: 00007f873667f000 CR3: 00000000379d8000 CR4: 00000000000006f0 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] Process events/0 (pid: 9, threadinfo ffff88007fb9a000, task ffff88007fba0000) > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] Stack: > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] 0000000000000001 ffff880000000000 0000000000000008 ffffffffa000f6b8 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] <0> 0000000000000001 8000028005810000 ffff88007c8ca000 ffffffff8104800d > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] <0> 0000000100015780 ffff88007ca3f1a0 ffff880001818180 000000000000ff91 > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] Call Trace: > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] [<ffffffffa000f6b8>] ? usb_control_msg+0x124/0x135 [usbcore] > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] [<ffffffff8104800d>] ? finish_task_switch+0x3a/0xaf > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] [<ffffffffa031bd2e>] ? rtl818x_ioread8+0x61/0x7e [rtl8187] > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] [<ffffffffa031bd6f>] ? rtl8187_is_radio_enabled+0x24/0xc0 [rtl8187] > Dec 28 11:33:38 beriserv kernel: [ 20.820173] [<ffffffffa031be30>] ? rtl8187_rfkill_poll+0x25/0x78 [rtl8187] [...] This is presumably caused by a bug in rtl8187. However, it is not a general protection fault so there may be two different bugs here. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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