Testing - kernel-2.6.9-1.715_FC3 panics on GUI Exit

[Jim Cornette]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-12-15 at 07:01 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
>>The problem seems to be triggered when exiting the GUI. When booting in 
>>runlevel 5 and logging out of X, the hourglass stays in the center of 
>>the screen and the caplocks light flashes.
>>When booted into runlevel 3 and closing down, the text on the screen 
>>displays a series of numbers and states that it has a panic condition 
>>and the cap-locks light is flashing.
> 
> 
> Known issue and has been fixed already in later kernels than FC3 (.906
> and later I believe), and at some point I assume it will be pushed down
> to FC3.
> 
> Do you happen to have a ThinkPad T31, or a Radeon graphics card?

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility U1


> 
> Does your panic backtrace look anything like this?
> ------------------
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c0156447>] handle_mm_fault+0xe5/0x233
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c01783c3>] path_lookup+0xff/0x12f
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c0178aa2>] open_namei+0x99/0x581
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c01662be>] filp_open+0x23/0x3c
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c0309b32>] __cond_resched+0x14/0x3b
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c01e132e>] direct_strncpy_from_user+0x3e/0x5d
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c01667e7>] sys_open+0x31/0x7d
> Nov  7 22:22:30 localhost kernel:  [<c030b3c3>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> ------------------

  It seemed to have large blocks of numbers, like on earlier kernels 
with debugging code present.
I logged out of X, then ran poweroff from a terminal on last logout. I 
did not have a kernel panic on poweroff, just the acpi_poweroff problem.

Jim


> 
> Dan
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