Re: Linux null-pointer deref in 3.16.7-ctk2-1 (was: Bug#776192: upgrade-reports wheezy to jessie boot problem)

[Bill MacAllister <whm@stanford.edu>]

--On Sunday, January 25, 2015 11:25:34 AM +0100 Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> wrote:

> I have CC'ed the Debian linux maintainers as I noticed your kernel
> reports a null pointer deference in the kernel (see below for the
> trace).  I have taken the liberty of reassigning it to the linux package
> as well.
>   @linux maintainers: if you suspect that the null pointer issue is
> unrelated to Bills boot problem, please clone the bug and throw the bug
> back to upgrade-reports for further analysis.
>
> Bug link: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=776192
>
> Thanks,
> ~Niels

Any news on this problem?  I am still seeing this problem even though
we have moved on to 3.16.7-ckt7-1.

I had the thought to look at the kernel modules that support the
PERC controller on these Dell systems.  Explicitly specifying the
mpt* modules and updating initramfs does not fix the problem.

We have plenty of these 1950s.  I really need to come up with a
work around or a solution to this problem.  Any ideas about what
I should try next?

Bill

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Bill MacAllister
Systems Programmer, Stanford University