[CentOS] kernel panic/abort during boot

Fri Dec 23 19:47:26 UTC 2011
fred smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>

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:

http://users.rcn.com/fredricksmith/100_2020.JPG


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