Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

Dr. Diesel dr.diesel at gmail.com
Fri May 2 23:17:00 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 7:12 PM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 07:01:53PM -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
>   > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
>   > > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:49:26PM -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
>   > >   > Does this mean anything?
>   > >
>   > >  yes, bad voodoo.
>   > >
>   > >   > [root at localhost ~]# dmesg | tail
>   > >
>   > >  please file a bugzilla with the full dmesg output.
>   > >  (unless you're using any binary-only modules, in which case
>   > >   all bets are off)
>   > >
>   > >  thanks,
>   > >
>   > >                 Dave
>   >
>   > No binary modules.  Today's Rawhide.
>   >
>   > Wait a minute, I did just install VirtualBox 1.6 not long before?
>   > Which has a kernel module...
>
>  Which does all sorts of futzing with page tables.
>  Chances are it can't cope with the changes done in .25 to support PAT.
>  (Though I've seen it cause numerous cases of corruption in even
>   before these changes).
>
>  If I were a betting man, I'd put odds on that module being the cause
>  of your problems.
>
>
>
>                 Dave
>

According to their change log here http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Changelog

Linux additions: compatibility fixes with Linux 2.6.25

Give the word and I'll post a bug to them.

Thanks
Andy





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