On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 14:13:41 +0100 francesco foresti wrote: > Hi, > i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not > patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): > i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the > second one because the other slips offscreen before i can see what's going > on. However, this is what i have been able to hand-copy: > > kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:610! > Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#2]
As you say, this is the second "[#2]" Oops, but the first one is usually the one that we need to see. Can you use a serial console or netconsole to send to kernel messages to another computer? > Modules linked in: snd_aoa_codec_tas snd_aoa_fabric_layout snd_aoa > snd_aoa_i2sbus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm appletouch > snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd soundcore snd_aoa_soundbus uninorth_agp agpgart > eth1394 evdev ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mirror dm_snapshot > dm_mod usbhid ff_memless ide_cd cdrom ide_disk sungem sungem_phy ohci1394 > ieee1394 ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore i2c_powermac > NIP: C007B5A4 LR: C007B740 CTR: 00000000 > REGS: effc7e50 TRAP: 0700 Not tainted (2.6.20.1-powerpc) > MSR: 00021032 <ME,IR,DR> CR: 42000048 XER: 00000000 > TASK effc0bf0[3] 'events/0' THREAD: effc6000 > GPR00: 00000001 EFFC7F00 EFFC0BF0 EFFEE6E0 C0B1E008 00000000 00000000 00000000 > GPR08: C1D093Bc 00004000 FFFFFFF4 C031E000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > GPR16: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 0164B230 41400000 > GPR24: 00000000 00311000 EFFF6920 00000018 00000000 00000000 C1C96A10 EFFEE6E0 > NIP [C007b5a4] free_block+0x5c/0x160 > LR [C007B740] drain_array+0x98/0xd8 > Call Trace: > [EFFC7F00] [00000001] 0x1 (unreliable) > [EFFC7F20] [C007B740] drain_array+0x98/0xd8 > [EFFC7F40] [C007CE0C] cache_reap+0x40/0x128 > [EFFC7F50] [C003E2C8] run_workqueue+0xb4/0x15c > [EFFC7F70] [C003EB10] worker_thread+0x124/0x15c > [EFFC7FC0] [C00423FC] kthread+0xc4/0x100 > [EFFC7FF0] [C0013998] kernel_thread+0x44/0x60 > Instruction dump: > 3d20c02e 81692688 3d254000 5529c9f4 7c09582e 7c895a14 70094000 41a20008 > 8084000c 80040000 5400cffe <0f000000> 80e4001c 5789103a 3c000010 --- ~Randy *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
