PROBLEM: 2.6.20-1 not working on ibook g4 (BUG/Oops)

Paul Collins paul at briny.ondioline.org
Tue Mar 6 12:53:22 EST 2007


David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> writes:

> On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 14:13 +0100, francesco foresti wrote:
>> Hi,
>> i'm having problems trying to use 2.6.20-1 (taken from kernel.org, not 
>> patched) on my ibook g4 (debian testing/unstable): 
>> i'm getting two errors while trying to boot up, and i can only report the 
>> second one because the other slips offscreen before i can see what's going 
>> on. However, this is what i have been able to hand-copy:
>>  
>> kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:610!
>> Oops: Exception in kernel mode, sig: 5 [#2]
[snipped]
> I've been seeing very similar behaviour with 2.6.20 on all pmac32
> hardware. I haven't yet tried hard to reproduce on non-pmac.

In case it's of interest, 2.6.20 has been running fine on my PowerBook5,4.

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Paul Collins
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