Bug#666442: Kernel Panic at boot up

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

reassign 658578 src:linux-2.6 2.6.32-41
forcemerge 666442 658578 634023
severity 666442 important
quit

Buford Peek wrote:

> Yes it does fail regularly on a cold boot. and fails regularly on a
> warm boot.

You mentioned before that when you reboot it, it boots normally.

> We have iDRAC on these systems and we have a video capture of the
> last boot. The file extension is .dvc file..I am not sure what kinda
> a player you will need to play this file..I have included three more
> screen shots of the whole panic and right before things started
> going wrong.

Perfect, thanks.  The image shows a NULL pointer dereference (for a
field at offset 0x40) in elv_queue_empty+0x12.

Merging with some similar reports, though I am not confident they
have the same cause.  I guess I would suggest testing with
2.6.32-34squeeze1 and 2.6.32-35 from snapshot.debian.org (or similarly
searching through historical kernels to find which introduces the
bug).

Thanks,
Jonathan