[Fedora-xen] xen "broke" my system

M A Young m.a.young at durham.ac.uk
Sat Dec 17 15:26:19 UTC 2011


On Sat, 17 Dec 2011, Carlos Felipe Santacruz wrote:

> ok, sorry i didnt update until now.
> i traced back the previous problem to the nvidia drivers (or lack thereof)
> installing the akmod-nvidia packages solved the "no X" problem.
> but now another problem surfaced, at the end of boot, the X display starts,
> i see the gnome bg for a few seconds but then i get a "system cant recover,
> contact a system administrator" error message, then the only option is a
> forced shutdown, cant change consoles or anything.
> the stock 3.1.5-2 kernel still works.
> 
> the whole /var/log/messages for one boot of the xen kernel:
> http://pastebin.com/Eqfgd8gE (im sorry i didnt trim it, kinda new to it and
> dont know what is important and what isnt)

The lines

Dec 17 09:34:43 cfsantacruza00R kernel: [   41.736859] gnome-shell[2632]: 
segfault at 118 ip 0000003edeed5674 sp 00007ffff5dc7f10 error 4 in 
libnvidia-glcore.so.290.10[3eddc00000+1912000]
Dec 17 09:34:44 cfsantacruza00R abrt[2651]: Saved core dump of pid 2632 
(/usr/bin/gnome-shell) to /var/spool/abrt/ccpp-2011-12-17-09:34:43-2632 
(106831872 bytes)

looks suspicious. The core dump it refers to might tell you more.

 	Michael Young


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