Re: udev: BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, udevd/447 (Tainted:P )



--- John Wendel <john.wendel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Antonio Olivares wrote:
Dear List Users,

I have successfully installed Fedora 5 on a
shuttleX machine, AMD 2700 XP processor. I
updated to
kernel-2.6.17-1.2157_FC5 and everything was
working
beautifully and then all of a sudden the machine
froze. Could not CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, could not
shutdown. I was surfing the net and this
happened. I
decided to reset. When I reset the machine it
gave me
the message

Starting
udev: BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0,
udevd/447
(Tainted:P )
lock: c06e07d4, .magic: c06eo7d4, .owner:{weird
symbol goes here} ...
Bug: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, udev/447 cobeo7d4
(Tainted: P).

It stayed there leaving me no choice but to press
and
hold the power button till it shutdown. I let it
stay
off for a little and I turned it back on and it
let me
through with no error message as the previous one.

What does this error mean?

Is the CPU dying little by little?

Thanks for your valuable time,

Antonio

Your hardware is probably just fine. You've been
bitten by a bad
kernel version or bad video driver. Are you running
ATI driver?

No, it has via 8237 integrated video card. Another
machine I have has ATI Radeon 7000 and it is working
fine.


For your system (I have same one here), I'd build a
plain vanilla,
single CPU kernel with the tarball from kernel.org
(2.6.17.7). Mine is
rock solid with this version.

Just my 2 cents worth.

John


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I'll cross my fingers and hope that this does not
happen. If it happens, I'll follow your advice and
get a vanilla kernel.

Thanks,

Antonio

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