Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update

[Martin Kuball <martinkuball@web.de>]

Am Wednesday 02 January 2013 schrieb Michel Dänzer:
> On Die, 2013-01-01 at 21:52 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I made some progress. After switching update to sequential boot I saw
> > the following exception:
> > 
> > machine check in kernel mode
> > caused by (from SRR1=49030): Transfer error ack signal
> > oops: machine check, sig: 7 [#1]
> > 
> > the top entry of the call trace is:
> > gem_ioctl+0x60/0x94 [sungem]
> > 
> > But this seems really odd to me. If the error is in the kernel module,
> > why does it still occur after switching back to the old kernel?
> 
> Maybe one of the userspace packages you upgraded is now using the broken
> kernel functionality but wasn't before.
> 
But sungem ist the ethernet driver, isn't it? And indeed networking is broken. Running ping gives "network unreachable".
ifconfig simply hangs (and with it the shell/terminal from which it was started).

From /var/lib/dpkg/info I was able to see what packages I updated on monday. I downgraded libpci3 and pciutils and removed the new kernel image. But that did not help.