Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (507 mails)

[Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:58:16AM +0700, AndiSugandi™ wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Greg KH<gregkh@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 02:23:02PM -0300, Luiz Fernando Ranghetti wrote:
> > > 2009/7/26 AndiSugandi™ <andisugandi@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 1:08 AM, Markus Koßmann<mkossmann_ml1@xxxxxx> 
> > > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Just try it.  I'am running 3.6.30 kernels on 11.1 for some time now 
> > > > > without
> > > > > problems.  Most error messages are caused by a configuration change. The
> > > > > driver is no longer build as module but compiled into the kernel.
> > > >
> > > > I'm using this kernel on openSUSE 11.1 too but have a problem, it
> > > > won't boot until I disable acpi module to be looded at grub menu
> > > > (acpi=off).
> > > >
> > > > The boot log looks like this:
> > > >
> > > > [    10.361694] acer-wmi : Acer Laptop ACPI-WMI Extras
> > > > [     10.373790] Kernel Panic - not syncing: stack-protector: kernel
> > > > stack is corrupted in: 4845ca0e
> > > >
> > > > ...bla bla bla
> > > >
> > > > [     10.623049]  [cffffe424] 0xffffe424 <- #at this line, kernel
> > > > booting stopped.
> > > >
> > > > Notes:
> > > > > uname -r
> > > > 2.6.30.2-4-default
> > > >
> > > > but has different kernel-source version as in
> > > > "Kernel:/HEAD/openSUSE_Factory" repository:
> > > >
> > > > ls -l /usr/src/linux
> > > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2009-07-26 15:51 /usr/src/linux -> 
> > > > linux-2.6.30.2-6
> > > >
> > > > rpm -qa | grep kernel-source
> > > > kernel-source-2.6.30.2-6.1
> > > >
> > > > My box is Acer Aspire 5620:
> > > > http://www1.dealtime.co.uk/xPF-Acer-ACER-AS5622WLMI-050
> > > >
> > > > Should I file the bug? Because it happened similar when I tried to
> > > > install openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 3-Live CD KDE4 on the same machine
> > > > (stopped booting with the same error boot log, and could not reach GUI
> > > > even it booted with acpi=off enabled). Or I should do some more
> > > > workaround?
> > > >
> > > > Btw, I'm new here, and glad to discuss with many experts of my
> > > > favorite Linux distribution.
> > > >
> > > > TIA.
> > > >
> > > > Best regards,
> > > > Andi S.
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Dont need, there is 2 bug reports open 2 months ago with similar errors:
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508571
> > >
> > > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=508351
> >
> >
> > This problem is due to a BIOS bug.  Acer has said they will provide a
> > new BIOS to fix the issue, so please upgrade.
> >
> > Or you can blacklist the acer-wmi kernel module, which should solve the
> > issue as well.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
>
> Thanks Greg, it solved.
>
> I hope the Acer BIOS update will not take any longer to wait :)

Well, ideally we could fix the problem in the kernel driver as well, we
shouldn't crash just because the BIOS engineers can't get their act
together...

Can someone provide the full trace of the oops that happens here?  With
that we have a chance to fix the problem.

thanks,

greg k-h
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