About two out of three times I get a kernel panic when booting etch on my AMD64 system. It started a few days ago when I upgraded from kernel 2.6.18-3-amd64. The rest of the time it comes up normally.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux april 2.6.18-6-amd64 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 17:50:19 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ The messages near the bottom of the screen on kernel panic are (copied by hand via a piece of paper): Code: 83 3f 00 7e f9 e9 d4 fe ff ff f3 90 83 3f 00 7e f9 e9 d3 fe Console shuts up... <07Kernel panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler I have nvidia graphics on the motherboard, using the free nv drivers. Any ideas? What information would be useful? -- hendrik P.S. Existing possibly unrelated known problems. These problems existed before the kernel upgrade, and are still there after. * After X comes up, cntl-alt-F1 does not switch me to a text console. * If I stay logged in overnight, my window manager has often died by the next day. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]