Kernel Panic - 11.3

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Since the update to 11.3 i’m getting kernel panics randomly. Because the X server freezes and I can only force an “unexpected reboot”, there is not much information I have.

I installed kdump and activated it with the Yast module. I’m collecting dump files, now. But I’m not sure what to do with does files.

2

Hi there,

“unexpected reboot” means that you hit the button?

you could post some details of the new collected files just here, would help to see a failure, maybe

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“unexpected reboot” means pressing the power button :wink:

The dump files are binary (and pretty large) so I cant post them in the forum.

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Fruchtratte wrote:

>
> Since the update to 11.3 i’m getting kernel panics randomly. Because
> the X server freezes and I can only force an “unexpected reboot”,
> there is not much information I have.
>
> I installed kdump and activated it with the Yast module. I’m
> collecting dump files, now. But I’m not sure what to do with does
> files.

Open bug reports, then attach the diagnostics.

–
Per Jessen, Zürich (24.8°C)
http://en.opensuse.org/User:Pjessen

5

I’m having the same problem, and have the feeling that the frequency of freeze occurrences in increasing. I start considering to demote to 11.2 that was perfectly working.

6

In may case it was the Intel graphic chip. There is already a bug
report:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615649

The patch
that is proposed there worked, but you have to compile the kernel module.

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Well, I am having similar problems:

I tried to update to 11.3 from 11.2 (kernel 2.6.31.12-0.2-desktop) - the hadrware I am using is of DELL (two computers, a T300 server tower and a Dell Precision M6400 laptop).
Both use DELL RAID controllers
In both cases the new kernel failed to autodetect the RAID arrays and the booting stopped with kernel panic.

I guess, 11.3 is not going to play for me …

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It does not look necessary to include a patch and recompile the kernel as there is an alternative solution proposed in this thread
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615649 by Alex

Well, there is the solution for kernel 2.6.34:

  1. Add X11 repo
    (Index of /repositories/X11:/XOrg/openSUSE_11.3) and update
    Mesa, libdrm and xorg-x11-driver-video-intel-legacy
  2. Edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-device.conf:
    Section “Device”
    Identifier “Default Device”
    Driver “intellegacy”
    EndSection
  3. Reboot and enjoy legacy driver stability :slight_smile:

This works fine for me (Dell E6400 with an Intel GM45 card)