I have just built a fanless client using a Via EPIA-5000 mini-ITX motherboard and a very small EOS 40W powersupply (2*4*1").
Has anybody else used Mini-ITX boards as LTSP clients? The problem I have is that about one in three times I get a kernel panic during boot. The problem occurs in the interrupt handler while running dhclient. I tried searching the mailing list for similar problems, but the search-function at SourceForge appears to be down (again)... When the boot does complete the terminal works fine. The kernel files I use are eb-5.0.8-via-rhine.lzpxe and vmlinuz-2.4.19-ltsp-1. This is (part of) the error message I get: eth0: MII PHY found at address 1 Running dhclient Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c48035c2 *pde = 00000000 Oops = 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c48035c2>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010293 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000003 ecx: 0000000f edx: 00000000 esi: 00000000 edi: c10f6400 ebp: c10f6560 esp: c39b1da4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ifconfig (pid 39, stackpage = c39b1000) <snip> Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! In interrupt handler - not syncing Has anybody seen similar problems? Could an older/newer kernel help? Or a different BIOS (the current one is rev. 1.09)? Could the fact that the video "card" and Ethernet "card" use the same interrupt be part of the problem? Best regards, Mikkel C. Simonsen ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
