On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 03:33 +0930, Tim wrote: > I've just noticed something with the last kernel update that I don't see > with prior kernels: During the very early stages of writing text to the > screen at boot time, there's a message like this: > > ACPI: Invalid PBLK length [5] > You just said that the "last kernel update" gives you these errors. Below you list the release version of the kernel as the one that gives the errors. (a 2.6.15 version, and the latest is a 2.6.18 version). Please explain a little more. Is it really the 2.6.15 kernel giving the errors? If so, are you using that kernel with an otherwise fully updated FC5? It is likely that many software packages that have been fully updated in FC5 may have problems with the 2.6.15 kernel since libraries as well as binaries have been updated. For stability you should run kernel and binaries that are built on and use the same libraries. > I don't know if this is worth worrying about. Anybody care to comment? > > It's a P4S800MX motherboard, and I don't know if the following is > pertinent: > > grep CPU dmesg > Initializing CPU#0 > CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c075b000 soft=c075a000 > CPU: After generic identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: After vendor identify, caps: 3febfbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 > CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K > CPU: L2 cache: 256K > CPU: After all inits, caps: 3febf3ff 00000000 00000000 00000080 00000000 00000000 00000000 > Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. > CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available > CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled > CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz stepping 02 > > cat /proc/cpuinfo > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 15 > model : 1 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 1.60GHz > stepping : 2 > cpu MHz : 1600.124 > cache size : 256 KB > fdiv_bug : no > hlt_bug : no > f00f_bug : no > coma_bug : no > fpu : yes > fpu_exception : yes > cpuid level : 2 > wp : yes > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tmbogomips : 3202.65 > > rpm -q kernel > kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5 (this is the one that shows this) > kernel-2.6.17-1.2187_FC5 (no similar error) > kernel-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5 (no similar error) > And why are you worried about errors from the kernel-2.6.15-1.2054_FC5?? That was the release kernel for FC5 and it has been updated/replaced several times in the last 6 months, with improvements and updates each time.
