Kernel panic with Live CD

[Timothy Murphy]

Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:

>> I've put the "snap" KDE Live CD,
>> F10-Beta-i686-Live-KDE.iso
>> on a USB stick, and this runs on most of my computers.
>> But it crashes on an AMD K8 (Athlon-64) machine.
 
> The Beta image isn't one of the snapshots (of which there are 3 now I
> believe), so there's 3 newer images out there then the Beta image you
> tested. Can you reproduce this with more recently composed Live Media?

Sorry, the ISO I installed on my USB stick was in fact
	F10-Snap3-i686-Live-KDE.iso

>> 2. Is there a bugzilla for the F10 test distributions?

> Yes, it's called 'rawhide' in bugzilla, and it should have the
> appropriate components for Live Media.

Thanks for your response.
I take it "bugzilla" means bugzilla.redhat.com ?
I ask because I see a kind of bugzilla list 
in the Alpha-Beta (Fedora 10 Only) forum
at <http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forumdisplay.php?f=64>.

The redhat bugzilla strikes me as very hard to navigate.
There seems to be no way to limit the search for bugs to F10.

If I click on "Search existing bug reports"
and choose Classification:Fedora and Product:Fedora
the page hangs for about 30 seconds,
and then I get a Javascript message
"A script on this page may be busy, 
or it may have stopped responding. 
You can stop the script now, 
or you can continue to see if the script will complete."

Am I alone in finding the Redhat bugzilla system extraordinarily obtuse?
I imagine they must lose at least 80% of bugzillas
because people just can't work out how to report them.

The KDE bugzilla system is far from perfect,
but it is infinitely better than the Redhat one.

> Interesting details include;

> - Does the Live image boot if you put it on a CD?

I guess I should try this (and I will).
But the USB stick works on other computers,
so I don't see why it should not work on this,
unless the snap Live CD just doesn't work on this computer.

> - What type of kernel panic do you get?

Well, it seemed to involve IRQs, as far as I could see.
But is there any way to save the backtrace,
or does one really have to transcribe it all by hand?
Is there any way of reading it from, or sending it to, another computer?
And which is most important, the beginning or the end of the trace?

> - Are there any existing bugs against the kernel version included on the
> Live Media that you know of, that are similar to the behavior you are
> seeing?

As I said, I'm not sure how to restrict the search to F10.
Searching for "kde live cd kernel" finds 39 bugs,
none of which seems directly related to my problem.

But I submitted my problem as bug #469562.