Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt : In interrupt handler - not syncing

[Hans Müller]

Am Sonntag, 4. Juli 2004 04:08 schrieb Rafael Gomes Monteiro:
> Hi,
>
> I've been using Fedora Core 2 very often and had no problems. Recently, the
> system started to freeze while I was using the GUI (either Gnome or KDE).
> When it happens I have to press the reset button (i've tried Ctrl+Alt+F*,
> Ctrl+Alt+Del, pressing the power button [ATX] but nothing works, I can't
> even change the NumLock status).
>
> The only critical changes I did:
> - an up2date (which updated the kernel to 2.6.6-1.435.2.1)
> - installed the new NVIDIA driver (6106)
>
> In graphical mode the system freezes and doesn't display any message.
> Recently I was able to see the system freezing in console mode (booted into
> init 5 and changed to init 3). It displayed an error message like this (i
> didn't write down all the hexadecimal numbers, but if that's needed I can
> do it later):
>
> ============================ begin ============================
> 3jbd
> CPU: (some hex numbers)
> EIP: (some hex numbers) Not tainted
> EIFLAGS: (some hex numbers) (2.6.6-1.435.2.1)
> EIP is at 0x236b1bb
> ...
> CALL TRACE
> run_timer_softirq+0x10b/0x12a
> __do_softirq+0x35/0x73
> do_softirq+0x46/0x4d
> ...
> do_irq+0x15d/0x169
> default_idle+0x23/0x26
> cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34
> start_kernel+0x178/0x17a
>
> CODE: 00 b8 b1 36 02 c0 b1 36 02 c0 b1 36 02 c8 b1 36 02 c8 b1 36
>
> <0> Kernel panic: Fatal exception in interrupt
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
> ============================ end ============================
>
> Steps to reproduce:
> 1. Start the system.
> 2. After some time (sometimes even during boot, sometimes it takes about 1
> hour or more) it crashes.
>
> Things i've already tried:
> - Uninstall NVIDIA's driver
> - Downgrade the kernel to the 2.6.5 that comes with Fedora Core 2 CD1
> - Reset BIOS values to "Optimal Values" and "Default Values"
>
> I don't think it's a hardware problem since I have win2k installed in the
> same machine and it doesn't have any problems.
>
> (and please excuse my poor english)
>
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After i update to kernel to 2.6.6-1.435.2.1 or kernel to 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 i 
have also only problems. It can be a problem with acpi try to use acpi=off.