3.0 panic on boot

[mervinb]

Thanks for making the 3.0 liquorix kernel available.

I've tried booting on ubuntu 11.04, and hit a kernel panic. Previous versions up to the most recent 2.6.39 have been very much trouble free and stable. The system is a Dell Studio 15

I've copied what I can from the panic message:

/home/damentz/.../rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)
Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.0-1.dmz.Z-liquorix-amd64 #1
Call Trace:
[ffff.....] .......

[pedro.nariyoshi]

Same here ):

Thank you damentz. 3.0 made my iwl4965 finally work on 802.11n and I was eager to have 3.0-liquorix.

Edit.: my computer is a ThinkPad X300

[pedro.nariyoshi]

I can confirm this on a Athlon 64 2200+ as well.

I wonder if that's a rare case, because both of my computers have the same problem ):

[DeepDayze]

the first message I get as well, but it don't crash for me.

/home/damentz/.../rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)

take a screenshot with a camera to display the full Oops so damentz can help you debug it

[damentz]

The rtc error is harmless and I'm fixing that in the next package I upload. As far as your kernel panic, I'll need to see more of the message to get an idea of what is causing it.

[mervinb]

I hope this image in flickr is viewable. The latest kernel does take care of the rtc problem.

Thanks again for liquorix!

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[pedro.nariyoshi]

rtc is fixed to me as well, but still the same panic.

I'm running on a Linux Mint 11, with module-init-tools as a local package and using an unofficial repo for GCC4.6. Perhaps this might be the cause.

[skotadopsyxos]

I have a hint, the latest kernels, at least for me, don't create an initrd image and so goes into kernel panic, manually creating it seems to fix the problem..

To check if this is the problem with you open grub.cfg and see if it points to an initrd image along with the standard vmlinux image.
If not:
sudo update-initramfs -k 3.0-1.dmz.3-liquorix-amd64 -c
sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-3.0-1.dmz.3-liquorix-amd64

Of course before you attempt this I would like to have a comment by damentz..

Ubuntu 11.04 here with module-init-tools from debian

Last edit: I don't have gcc 4.6 installed but building modules is working just fine (fglrx, vmware and virtualbox) and the programs on their own of course

[DeepDayze]

A good idea is to rebuild the initrd for the new kernel after installing it. There could be many things that could go wrong with that and there might be a bug in the implememtation used on Ubuntu and Ubuntu based distros.


Using debian packages on Ubuntu and vice versa is pretty dicey to say the least

[damentz]

Can we get the output of inxi -F using the code tags? I want to see what kinds of systems I'm dealing with here.