Bug#883938: RFT: Candidate fix for boot failure of Debian 8.10 on various x86 systems

Hi Ben, Ben Hutchings wrote: An updated package is available at: https://people.debian.org/~benh/packages/jessie-pu/linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64_3.16.51-3~a.test_amd64.deb I can also confirm that this build works fine on my problematic machines. Thanks for the fix! Karsten signature.asc D

Bug#883938: Bug #883938: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on boot after upgrading to debian 8.10 kernel 3.16.51

Bernhard Schmidt wrote: Can you check whether numa=off on the kernel command line fixes this as well? Indeed it does. Appending numa=off to the kernel command line fixes the bug in my KVM virtual machines as well as my physical servers (at least the ones I've tested so far). So this might be a

Bug#883938: Bug #883938: linux-image-3.16.0-4-amd64: Kernel panic on boot after upgrading to debian 8.10 kernel 3.16.51

I can reproduce the bug on multiple (physical) servers running in our data center. When booting my virtual servers with the new kernel, the issue did not arise... ...until I enabled NUMA. Booting a virtual machine with 2 sockets and 16 cores each works fine when NUMA is disabled in KVM. With N