F7 installation panic (HP Pavilion a1250n)

D. Hugh Redelmeier hugh at mimosa.com
Mon Jun 4 15:48:26 UTC 2007


I'm trying to do a fresh install of F7 x86_64 from DVD onto my main
desktop machine (previously running FC6 x86_64).  I just got a kernel
panic.  This message is partly to capture the symptoms.

The CPU is an Athlon 64 x2 (older -- Socket 939).
Lots of RAM -- 3G, so that should not be a problem.
SATA1 hard drive, IDE DVD Burner, IDE DVD reader.
ATI chipset but nVidea add-in graphics card.

Progress seemed to stall during "checking dependencies" (or whatever
that step is called -- I'm reporting from memory).  So I did an C-A-F1
to see what the console said.  It said the usual stuff, that I don't
remember, but probably a few of these:
	(anaconda:839) HtmlUtil - CRITICAL **: html_stream_cancel: assertion `stream->cancel_func != NULL' failed

A few seconds later spewed a panic message, some of it off the screen.
Here's what is on the screen still.  (This is going to be a bother to
transcribe!)

    R13: ffffffff805a2544  R14:ffffffff8062c2e0 R15: 0000000000000000
    FS:  00002aaaac627fd0(0000) GS:ffffffff8059c000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b
    CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 00000000b898b000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
    Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo ffffffff805fe000, task ffffffff805545c0)
    Stack:  ffffffff802aeb4a 0000000000000046 ffffffff805ffed8 0000000000000000
     0000000000000030 0000000000000000 ffffffff80265498 ffffffff80656f98
     ffffffff80263d5d ffffffff805fff00 ffffffffffffffff ffffffff80629ea0
    Call Trace:
     <IRQ>  [<ffffffff802aeb4a>] handle_edge_irq+0x5c/0x128
     [<ffffffff80265498>] do_IRQ+0xf1/0x15f
     [<ffffffff80263d5d>] default_idle+0x0/0x3d
     [<ffffffff80257631>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa
     <EOI>  [<ffffffff80263d86>] default_idle+ox29/ox3d
     [<ffffffff80244224>] cpu_idle+0x8c/0xaf
     [<ffffffff80609815>] start_kernel+0x2b9/0x2c5
     [<ffffffff8060915c>] _sinittext+0x15c/0x160


    Code:  Bad RIP value.
    RIP  [<0000000000000000>]
     RSP <ffffffff8065df50>
    CR2: 0000000000000000
    Kernel Panic - not syncing: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!

I have no way of knowing if the dependency checking finished before
the panic.

(If it is going to crash, I sure wish that it would crashed earlier.  I
spent a bunch of time selecting packages, all for naught.)

I don't see anything quite like this in bugzila.  Maybe this one, but it 
is pretty non-specific: 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242369




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