On 12/23/2011 5:00 PM, fred smith wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 05:44:11PM -0500, Ross Walker wrote:
On Dec 23, 2011, at 2:47 PM, fred smithfredex@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us wrote:
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 01:02:12PM -0500, fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 05:53:13PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 12/22/2011 05:44 PM, fred smith wrote:
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 04:56:42PM -0600, Johnny Hughes wrote:
<snip> >>> >>> There is a new kernel building right now that might >>> fix something ... though I do not see anything specifically about your cpu. >>> >>> Here is the errata link: >>> >>> http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1849.html >>> >>> If everything builds it should be released in a couple of hours. >>> >> >> so it'll show up in a release channel (or CR repo) ? >> >> > It will be in 6.2/updates/ > > Still building right now. >
Johnny, I got that kernel, and it dies what appears to be the same death as the prior one. the register dump is different than the one I showed, but even before that the dump didn't always look the same. this one also mentions something about alsa or snd. I can put it up on the same web site as the last one if anyone would find it useful to see (I certainly don't know how to interpret it).
also, this is a netbook, so it has no serial port. If it did I'd look into a serial console on the theory that I could capture the entire dump. Can anyone suggest how I would do that without a serial console? ... or if not exactly that, other things that would be useful to do to help clarify/diagnose this?
thanks all!
Fred
here's th e register dump for this failure. it looks like it may be more useful than the last one:
Is that sound on-board? If it is disable it in BIOS, if it isn't, remove the card.
See if it breaks after that.
the Bios has only a very few options, and disabling sound isn't one of them. :( since it's a laptop (netbook) it's probably not possible to yank the sound hardware (which, btw, works fine on Centos 6.1).
I suppose I could try rebuilding the initial ram disk without the sound module(s), though I'm not sure I know exactly the right way to do that....
Add the modules to:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
And re-install the kernel. The dracut util that builds the initramfs includes this file at install time.