updated kernel panics with dhcp

Tim ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au
Sun Jul 22 07:24:21 UTC 2007


On Sat, 2007-07-21 at 22:20 -0400, Joe Smith wrote:
> I finally rebooted just to see if I had any problems from the update, 
> and sure enough, my system panics when eth0 is started, after
> printing 
> "Determining IP information for eth0...".
> 
> If I boot with the modem powered off, it's fine, but as soon as I run 
> "service network start" I get a kernel panic.
> 
> I rebooted several times trying different tactics, and I did have one 
> instance when I got eth0 to come up cleanly, but about four other
> times 
> when it paniced, always at the same place.
> 
> Sorry--no useful log messages. The final line on the screen was 
> something like "Fatal Exception in interrupt, not syncing". 

You should have said what network hardware you have.  If you don't know,
the full output from lspci would probably be of use to someone.

-- 
[tim at bigblack ~]$ uname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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