On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:36:46AM +0100, Zavodsky, Daniel (GE Money) wrote:
> Hello,
>     I have decided to try out the new RHEL 5.3 beta... I upgraded one
> testing 5.2 system but I cannot boot into the Xen kernel.
>     The system is a 64-bit SunFire x4200 with 2x dual-core CPU and 16 GB
> RAM. Has anyone had a similar experience with 5.3 beta or knows what is
> wrong?

Seems, the bug could be related to bugzilla #470202. There is the fix
addressed to issue. Will be great if you can test it.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=470202

Please, let me know if you will face the problems with compiling
custom kernel. I will provide you.

Thanks in advance!
-- Anton

>     This is what I copied from the console:
>  
>  
> PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB)
> Memory: 689152k/794624k available (2445k kernel code, 96936k reserved,
> 1363k data, 184k init)
> Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6483.26 BogoMIPS
> (lpj=12966525)
> Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
> SELinux:  Initializing.
> selinux_register_security:  Registering secondary module capability
> Capability LSM initialized as secondary
> Mount-cache hash table entries: 256
> CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
> CPU: L2 Cache: 1024K (64 bytes/line)
> CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
> CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
> (SMP-)alternatives turned off
> Initializing CPU#1
> Brought up 3 CPUs
> Initializing CPU#2
> migration_cost=383
> checking if image is initramfs... it is
> Grant table initialized
> NET: Registered protocol family 16
> ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 11E27A0 could
> not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
> No dock devices found.
> ACPI Exception (utmutex-0262): AE_BAD_PARAMETER, Thread 11E27A0 could
> not acquire Mutex [2] [20060707]
> PCI: Using configuration type 1
> ACPI: Interpreter disabled.
> Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
> pnp: PnP ACPI: disabled
> xen_mem: Initialising balloon driver.
> usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
> usbcore: registered new driver hub
> PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000
> RIP: 
>  [<ffffffff8034346a>] pci_create_bus+0x59/0x1f3
> PGD 0 
> Oops: 0000 [1] SMP 
> last sysfs file: 
> CPU 0 
> Modules linked in:
> Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.18-120.el5xen #1
> RIP: e030:[<ffffffff8034346a>]  [<ffffffff8034346a>]
> pci_create_bus+0x59/0x1f3
> RSP: e02b:ffff8800011ffd50  EFLAGS: 00010286
> RAX: ffff88002fefb000 RBX: ffff88002ff09200 RCX: 0000000000000000
> RDX: ffffffffff578000 RSI: 0000000000000005 RDI: 0000000000000000
> RBP: 0000000000000000 R08: ffff88002ff09400 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: ffff8800011ffda0 R11: 0000000000000100 R12: ffff88002fefb000
> R13: 0000000000000005 R14: ffffffff805429d0 R15: 0000000000000000
> FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff805b9000(0000)
> knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS:  e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000
> Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff8800011fe000, task
> ffff8800011e27a0)
> Stack:  0000000000000005  0000000000000005  0000000000000004
> 0000000000000000 
>  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  0000000000000000  ffffffff8034433a 
>  0000000000000005  ffffffff80650503 
> Call Trace:
>  [<ffffffff8034433a>] pci_scan_bus_parented+0x6/0x21
>  [<ffffffff80650503>] pcibios_irq_init+0x177/0x491
>  [<ffffffff806347e5>] init+0x1f9/0x2fe
>  [<ffffffff8025fb2c>] child_rip+0xa/0x12
>  [<ffffffff80351d59>] vgacon_cursor+0x0/0x1a5
>  [<ffffffff806345ec>] init+0x0/0x2fe
>  [<ffffffff8025fb22>] child_rip+0x0/0x12
>  
> 
> Code: 8b 7d 00 e8 e2 43 00 00 48 85 c0 0f 85 68 01 00 00 48 c7 c7 
> RIP  [<ffffffff8034346a>] pci_create_bus+0x59/0x1f3
>  RSP <ffff8800011ffd50>
> CR2: 0000000000000000
>  <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>  (XEN) Domain 0 crashed: rebooting machine in 5 seconds.
>  
>  
>  
> Best regards,
>     Daniel Zavodsky

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-- 
-Anton

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