Kernel Panic

[Rayen Riedel]

Hi,

I am trying to fix a kernel panic issue that I am having but it seems to be very complicated. The output of the panic is this:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000044
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
Kernel 2.4.9-e.3smp
CPU: 3
EIP: 0010:[] Tainted: P
EFLAGS: 00010046
EIP is at end_that_request_last [kernel] 0x75
eax: 00000004 ebx: 00000034 ecx: 001d1642 edx: f5675ea0
esi: f5675e94 edi: 00000014 ebp: c03ec0e0 esp: c29b1ec8
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c29b1000)
Stack: c02f6d2c 00000004 00000286 f5675e94 00000050 c03ec0e0 c01a2d48 f5675e94
00000000 00000000 f8a69000 c03ec0e0 c03ec0a0 c01a3369 c03ec0e0 00000050
00000000 c03ec0e0 f7e5de80 00000282 c01a403b c03ec0e0 c01a32a0 c299ce40
Call Trace: [] ide_end_drive_cmd [kernel] 0x128
[] drive_cmd_intr [kernel] 0xc9
[] ide_intr [kernel] 0x11b
[] drive_cmd_intr [kernel] 0x0
[] handle_IRQ_event [kernel] 0x5e
[] do_IRQ [kernel] 0xc1
[] default_idle [kernel] 0x0
[] call_do_IRQ [kernel] 0x5
[] default_idle [kernel] 0x0
[] default_idle [kernel] 0x2e
[] cpu_idle [kernel] 0x32
[] printk [kernel] 0xd8
[] .rodata.str1.1 [kernel] 0xd24


Code: 8b 43 10 8d 6b 10 89 50 04 89 46 0c 89 6a 04 89 53 10 8b 44
<0>Kernel panic: not continuing
In interrupt handler - not syncing

I cannot see what the exact cause is of this problem. Does anyone knows what this mean?

Tnx.

Regards,

Rayen

[Michael Williams_6]

Not having a clue about such things, I would say that your kernel is quite old, try upgrading if you can, you might inadvertently fix the fault while doing so...!

[Muthukumar_5]

I hope the problem may be because of kernel loadable module insertion. It tainted the kernel "EIP: 0010:[] Tainted: P "

And syncing problem ?? Are you trying 2.4.9 ? It is very old < 2.4.25 ?? Do you have data there is machine??

It is good to increase your kernel's age.

[Chris Saunderson]

I'm not sure what version of kernel you have has to do with the problem.

Can you run the oops through ksymoops and repost? Look in Documentation/ksymoops.txt