Re: iBook G3 stopped booting after last testing update
On Mit, 2013-01-02 at 14:40 +0100, Martin Kuball wrote:
> 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.
Right, so the most likely trigger was the upgrade of anything network
related, or maybe some kind of boot/init related package which is now
setting networking parameters it wasn't before.
But a machine check leaves little doubt that the root cause is a bug in
the sungem kernel driver (or a hardware problem).
> Running ping gives "network unreachable".
> ifconfig simply hangs (and with it the shell/terminal from which it
> was started).
Given the subject says 'stopped booting', how are you able to test
that? :)
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