Installed Fedora 13 RC2 On Dell Latitude E6400

[Robert L Cochran]

The kernel error messages I'm referencing below as a Fedora 13 problem 
are very similar to these from recent Fedora 12 kernels:

May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DRHD: handling fault status reg 2
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[DMA Read] Request device 
[01:00.0] fault addr 0
May 12 16:19:24 deafeng29 kernel: DMAR:[fault reason 07] Next page table 
ptr is invalid

I'll post actual messages from Fedora 13 either very late tonight or 
tomorrow.

Bob Cochran



On 05/15/2010 08:57 AM, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> Last night I installed Fedora 13 RC2 from the DVD download, and it was
> pretty smooth. Some install questions:
>
> 1. I clicked the checkboxes for all the possible Fedora 13 x86_64 repos.
> Is this a problem?
>
> 2. I had some momentary confusion with what exactly I wanted to install,
> and I clicked the radio buttons for 'Web Server' and 'Graphical Desktop'
> a few times before settling on 'Graphical Desktop'. I have the
> impression, since httpd installed, that at least some of the 'Web
> Server' components installed.
>
> Logging in for the first time after installation also went smoothly.
>
> I checked the contents of /var/log/messages because I've noticed that
> the last 2 Fedora 12 kernel updates seem to send DMA-related error
> messages. There can be hundreds of these filling up the log, so rather
> than use the latest 2.6.33 kernel I'm using Fedora 12 with an older
> 2.6.31.12-174 kernel that doesn't trigger off the error messages.
>
> Anyhow the 2.6.33 kernel installed under Fedora 13 does produce these
> DMA error messages. There are dozens of them and I can see them growing
> to hundreds of thousands of messages in the course of a day. Later
> tonight or tomorrow, I will try to file a bug -- it has been a long time
> since I've used Bugzilla.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob Cochran
>
>