Re: New Kernel Image

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On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 21:41:58 +0100
"Steven F. Christ" <fedora-core-list@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Sat, 4 Feb 2006 11:39:41 -0800
> Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On 2/4/06, Ernest <kong_an563@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >  New Kernel image 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
> > >  is causing problems with gdm.
> > >
> > >  After boot:
> > >  the kernel is running, but gdm has crashed at the point where a
> > > user login screen should appear.
> > >  All that appears is a blue background speckled with white dots.
> > > It might be that gdm has not crashed, but the boot process has
> > > left something in an incompatible state.
> > >
> > >  It is possible to login to this machine, from another desktop,
> > > using ssh. Once logged onto the fedora system and issuing the
> > > command "gdm-restart", the gdm user login screen appears on the
> > > fedora system console.
> > >
> > >  What has changed between 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4
> > >  and 2.6.14-1.1656.FC4?
> > >
> > >  Where do I start?
> > >  What information is needed?
> > >
> > >  System is an older Gateway PIII, 384MB RAM, ATI Radeon graphics
> > > card in the AGP slot.
> > >  X.org detects and configures this video card properly. The
> > > earlier kernel worked fine, until the system was booted with
> > > kernel 2.6.15-1. Now kernel 2.6.14-1 exhibits the same problem.
> > >
> > 
> > Your problem was answered in this thread "Issues with kernel 2.6.15
> > and other updates this morning". Go to
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2006-February/msg00179.html
> > for more information, then get this file
> > http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/testing/4/module-init-tools-3.2-0.pre9.0.FC4.1.i386.rpm
> > .and update modules-init-tools.
> > 
> After updating module-init-tools there seems to be a problem with the
> grapgic driver for the ati radeon 9800 (fglrx). see syslog..
> 
> ----------------------------------------------
> Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'X', page c193ac14)
> flags:0x80000414 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0 (Tainted: P     )
> Backtrace:
> Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
> [fglrx] Kernel AGP support doesn't provide agplock functionality.
> [fglrx] AGP detected, AgpState   = 0x1f004a1b (hardware caps of
> chipset) agpgart: Found an AGP 3.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
> agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
> agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
> [fglrx] AGP enabled,  AgpCommand = 0x1f004312 (selected caps)
> Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'X', page c193ac14)
> flags:0x80000414 mapping:00000000 mapcount:0 count:0 (Tainted: P     )
> Backtrace:
> [<c014d91e>] bad_page+0x8c/0xc3     [<c014e21c>]
> free_hot_cold_page+0x3a/0x126
> [<c014ea24>] __pagevec_free+0x1f/0x2e     [<c01541e0>]
> release_pages+0x119/0x194
> [<c0161665>] free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x74/0xb6     [<c015d743>]
> unmap_region+0xff/0x115
> [<c015d9c7>] do_munmap+0xb9/0xf4     [<c015da4e>] sys_munmap+0x4c/0x65
> [<c0104035>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
> ----------------------------------------------
> 
> after that, the system is freezing again!
>
 
ok, helped my self out, livna is on the road...
http://bugzilla.livna.org/show_bug.cgi?id=760

sfc


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