ADVICE REQUIRED: Fedora causing sx280 machine to crash

[Alan Cox]

On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 15:59:21 +0100
"dean north (BITS)" <dean.north at bbsrc.ac.uk> wrote:

> All,
> 
> I am looking for some advice.
> 
> I am currently installing the latest version of Fedora on an Dell Optiplex SX280.  The install works, Fedora boots fine and I can log in, but after a while the system crashes.  Most commonly when starting Terminal or firefox the system freezes or crashes with PANIC OCCURRED, SWITCHING BACK TO TEXT CONSOLE.  But I am then unable to do anything from there.

Its a graphics driver crash

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Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<f7a3780a>]
do_intel_finish_page_flip+0x16d/0x1f1 [i915] #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<f7a3e09b>]
intel_finish_page_flip_plane+0x1a/0x1c [i915] #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<f7a2843b>]
i915_driver_irq_handler+0x884/0x942 [i915] #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c07d62b3>] ?
_raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore+0x13/0x15 #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c06a1be1>] ?
__ata_sff_interrupt+0x126/0x137 #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c06a3735>] ?
ata_bmdma_port_intr+0x0/0xc2 #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c048704e>]
handle_IRQ_event+0x4c/0xfe #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c041c9fb>] ?
ack_apic_level+0x57/0x140 #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c0488b03>]
handle_fasteoi_irq+0x74/0xa6 #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c0488a8f>] ?
handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0xa6 #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] <IRQ>
#
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c0404bbd>] ?
do_IRQ+0x3c/0x92 #
Aug 1 11:48:23 localhost kernel: [ 124.221008] [<c043feb7>] ?
irq_exit+0x4c/0x70

File a bug against the kernel including that trace