[CentOS] Kernel panic, CentOS 7.1503 fully updated, with executing gkrellm.

Thu Apr 2 11:29:41 UTC 2015
Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner at gmail.com>

On 02-04-2015 02:04, Lamar Owen wrote:
> Just a heads up, since I know gkrellm is in EPEL and not in the main
> CentOS repos.  However, something fairly fundamental has changed, as
> prior to updating, gkrellm worked fine, but now every time I execute
> gkrellm the kernel panics.
>
> I'm going to triage on a different machine, as the panic corrupted at
> least one system library used by nautilus, but rpm -Va is your friend in
> these situations, and yum reinstall is its close kin.  So I would prefer
> to duplicate on a burner machine, and I'll try to get a snapshot of the
> panic.
>
> If anyone else wants to try to reproduce, simply try installing the
> current gkrellm from EPEL on a fully updated CentOS 7 machine and see if
> it panics on you.  I kindof hope it's local to my machine and its
> configuration (/home is LUKS, for instance), and it would be great if
> someone could verify that.

If it's that easy to reproduce, please grab the panic message or 
generate a vmcore through crashdump and report it at bugzilla.redhat.com 
against kernel component.

You may be using an EPEL application but kernel shouldn't be panicking 
like that, specially if you're running it as an user.

   Marcelo