Re: System broken after kernel upgrade - explanation?
On Sun, 22 May 2011 12:18:25 -0400
Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> wrote:
> On Sun, 22 May 2011 17:43:17 +0200
> Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > On 2011-05-22 17:34 +0200, Frank McCormick wrote:
> >
> > > Same situation here - the problem arose after yesterdays
> > > upgrades...which are:
> > >
> > >
> > > [UPGRADE] libgudev-1.0-0 169-1 -> 170-1
> > > [UPGRADE] libudev0 169-1 -> 170-1
> > > [UPGRADE] net-tools 1.60-23 -> 1.60-24
> > > [UPGRADE] udev 169-1 -> 170-1
> > > =========================================================
> >
> > These packages became available just a few hours ago, so they were
> > probably not included in yesterday's upgrade.
> >
> > > Strange you have udev 169-1..mine was upgraded to 170-1 which
> > > created the problem.
> >
> > I doubt that. Note that the udev problem only manifests itself in the
> > initramfs, and the kernel you have just started might not have the
> > latest udev version in its initramfs.
>
> Sorry...what happened in my case was the new pae kernel was
> installed on the 21st...but I did not reboot. Today when I
> did, the boot failure happened. So I went back to the old kernel, and
> this morning did an upgrade at which point udev 170-1 was installed.
> But initramfs was not re-created. So when I tried again to boot into
> the pae kernel it again failed. I will rebuild initramfs and we'll
> see what happens.
Rebuilt initramfs...rebooted and everything **seems** fine.
However in looking through syslog I saw this:
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.698554] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.698680] IP: [< (null)>] (null)
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.698762] *pdpt = 000000003734f001 *pde = 0000000000000000
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.698863] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.698959] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/idProduct
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.699003] Modules linked in: processor video thermal_sys button ext3 jbd mbcache usb_storage uas sg sr_mod sd_mod cdrom crc_t10dif ata_generic ata_piix uhci_hcd libata ehci_hcd scsi_mod usbcore e100 mii [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.699813]
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.699849] Pid: 318, comm: usb_id Not tainted 2.6.39-1-686-pae #1 /D865GBF
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.699987] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00000000 CPU: 0
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] EIP is at 0x0
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] EAX: 00000000 EBX: 000003a9 ECX: f719c0d9 EDX: 00000000
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] ESI: 000003a9 EDI: 00000000 EBP: c1158635 ESP: f72dfce8
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] DS: fd06 ES: 007b FS: c884 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] Process usb_id (pid: 318, ti=f72de000 task=f5bd7b00 task.ti=f73e8000)
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] Stack:
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] 0000158c f582e400 c1011cbf f63071c0 000003a3 0803c000 00001306 00000002
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] f6302198 f6302298 00000000 c1012716 f6302198 f6308f4c 00000000 c10125fb
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] 00000001 f6308f7c 00000000 f6308f4c 00000000 f63042b0 00000001 00000000
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] Call Trace:
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1011cbf>] ? p4_pmu_enable_event+0x102/0x10b
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1012716>] ? p4_pmu_enable_all+0x2a/0x37
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c10125fb>] ? x86_pmu_enable+0x1d1/0x243
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c104f017>] ? hrtimer_forward+0x10f/0x123
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c105307c>] ? timekeeping_get_ns+0x11/0x4f
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c101b24e>] ? lapic_next_event+0x13/0x16
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c10573f5>] ? clockevents_program_event+0xd2/0xe4
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c10581e0>] ? tick_dev_program_event+0x1e/0xfc
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1058302>] ? tick_program_event+0x14/0x17
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c104f643>] ? hrtimer_interrupt+0x16c/0x236
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c103bb6a>] ? irq_exit+0x56/0x79
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c101bc1b>] ? smp_apic_timer_interrupt+0x6b/0x75
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c12b24d1>] ? apic_timer_interrupt+0x31/0x38
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c105c47d>] ? generic_exec_single+0x58/0x65
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1026807>] ? leave_mm+0x29/0x29
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c105c5fc>] ? smp_call_function_single+0xd1/0xe2
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1026807>] ? leave_mm+0x29/0x29
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1026807>] ? leave_mm+0x29/0x29
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<f837a000>] ? 0xf8379fff
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c105c832>] ? smp_call_function+0x17/0x1b
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c105c843>] ? on_each_cpu+0xd/0x30
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<f837a000>] ? 0xf8379fff
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c10aa511>] ? kmap_flush_unused+0xf/0x16
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c102418f>] ? change_page_attr_set_clr+0xf7/0x338
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1050437>] ? down_timeout+0x36/0x3d
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c12b10a2>] ? mutex_lock+0xb/0x24
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c12b10a2>] ? mutex_lock+0xb/0x24
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c12b4f3f>] ? kprobes_module_callback+0xf5/0x109
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c11ac8f9>] ? acpi_ut_release_read_lock+0x40/0x45
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1051841>] ? lowest_in_progress+0x5d/0x66
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c10245e0>] ? change_page_attr_set+0x22/0x26
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c10245f7>] ? set_memory_rw+0x13/0x17
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<f837a000>] ? 0xf8379fff
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c1060ce9>] ? sys_init_module+0xdca/0xe7d
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] [<c12b6fdf>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] Code: Bad EIP value.
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:f72dfce8
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] CR2: 0000000000000000
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.700014] ---[ end trace 6b500ddaea15c049 ]---
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.880396] pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 5.933806] Intel 82802 RNG detected
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 6.046149] parport_pc 00:08: reported by Plug and Play ACPI
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 6.046276] parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 6.137541] shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4
May 22 12:25:21 sid kernel: [ 6.188771] input: PC Speaker as /devices/platform/pcspkr/input/input3
Is that significant ???
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-- Frank --
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