Fedora 16 kernel panic

[Kevin Martin]

On 02/24/2012 03:00 PM, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Brian Johnson wrote:
>> Thank you all for the responses. I went to reboot my laptop into the old
>> 3.2.2 kernel to confirm that it was having the same issue, and it boot into
>> it with no problem. I then reboot my laptop and let it start up with the
>> latest 3.2.7 kernel, and it, too, started with no problem again.
>>
>> There doesn't seem to be any consistency to it. Hadn't had a chance to make
>> any of the suggested changes below....
> One possible explanation is dodgy memory: do give it a check. The
> memtest86 on a Fedora install would be good for that. There’s also a
> chance that some other part of your system (possibly the processor)
> isn’t working quite properly: keep an eye out for that. (One traditional
> stress-test for processor and memory is a kernel compile).
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> James.
>
Hmm, yes, that is interesting. It boots into the newest kernel now with no changes from you when it wasn't before. Definitely sounds
like it could be hardware related.

Kevin