Bug#674427: Frequent freezes during run- and boot time due to kernel module general protection fault
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From: Olaf Rühenbeck <some.individuum@googlemail.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Subject: Re: Bug#674427: Frequent freezes during run- and boot time due to kernel module general protection fault
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 15:28:59 +0200
On Mon, 28 May 2012 04:04:02 +0100
Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-05-25 at 09:46 +0200, Olaf Rühenbeck wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 May 2012 16:21:49 +0100
> > Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > > On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 04:30:02PM +0200, Olaf Ruehenbeck wrote:
> > > > Package: general
> > > > Severity: important
> > > > Tags: squeeze
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > The correct package name to use when reporting a bug in the kernel
> > > is 'linux-image-' followed by the version string reported by
> > > 'uname -r', so in this case it would be
> > > 'linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64'. Which version of this package do
> > > you have installed?
> > >
> > > Can you check that the package is properly installed, by running
> > > 'debsums -c linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64'? (You might need to
> > > install debsums first.)
> > >
> > > Ben.
> > >
> >
> > I'm sorry, this is my first debian bug report. I will try to behave
> > in the future :)
> >
> > The installed version of the kernel package is 2.6.32-41squeeze2.
> >
> > root@Blackmagic:/home/xxxxxx# debsums -c linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64
> > root@Blackmagic:/home/xxxxxx# echo $?
> > 0
>
> So it seems to be installed OK, and as you've seen the same problem on
> multiple machines it's probably not due to defective hardware.
>
> Are you using any out-of-tree modules? (I.e. kernel modules that
> aren't part of the kernel package.)
>
> Can you check whether this is fixed in the current stable version
> (2.6.32-45)? Then if it isn't, test Linux 3.2 from testing, unstable
> or sqeueeze-backports?
>
> Ben.
>
tried a backport kernel 3.2, won't even boot at all. Scrambles the
screen and dies on X startup. We recently installed to those 3 Systems
additional 100mbit intel network cards, maybe this could be the source
of the issue? Using the e100 kernel module for this.
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