[Solved] kernel panics with 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

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[Solved] kernel panics with 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

Postby lxdragon » Jan 21st, '18, 20:16

I can still use kernel 4.9.56 with no issues. If I boot either 4.14.10 or 4.14.13, the PC just locks up. If I boot either 4.14.10 or 4.14.13 in recovery mode, I can see some messages go by with the last message being the kernel panic. Any ideas?

Thanks,
Chris
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Re: Kernel panics with both 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

Postby doktor5000 » Jan 22nd, '18, 00:32

You still didn't add much context information, e.g. what mainboard make/model, BIOS version and what CPU.

Found a similar report at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1520265 which seems to have been fixed by a BIOS upgrade.
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Re: Kernel panics with both 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

Postby benmc » Jan 22nd, '18, 02:07

from your running system (4.9.56) please post back the output of
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"rpm -qa | sort | grep ^kernel":


it is possible there are some kernel packages missing that should have been updated with your new ones, but for some reason were not.
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Re: Kernel panics with both 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

Postby lxdragon » Jan 22nd, '18, 05:02

benmc wrote:from your running system (4.9.56) please post back the output of
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"rpm -qa | sort | grep ^kernel":


it is possible there are some kernel packages missing that should have been updated with your new ones, but for some reason were not.


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kernel-firmware-20170531-1.mga6
kernel-firmware-nonfree-20171220-1.mga6.nonfree
kernel-server-4.14.10-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-4.14.13-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-4.9.35-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-4.9.56-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-devel-4.14.10-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-devel-4.14.13-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-devel-4.9.35-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-devel-4.9.56-1.mga6-1-1.mga6
kernel-server-devel-latest-4.14.13-1.mga6
kernel-server-latest-4.14.13-1.mga6
kernel-userspace-headers-4.14.13-1.mga6
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Re: Kernel panics with both 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

Postby lxdragon » Jan 22nd, '18, 05:07

doktor5000 wrote:You still didn't add much context information, e.g. what mainboard make/model, BIOS version and what CPU.


It's an HP Z400 workstation with a Xeon 2.67 GHz, 12 GB DDR3, 1 TB HDD, Quadro FX 1800.
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Re: Kernel panics with both 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

Postby wintpe » Jan 22nd, '18, 14:36

There are some acpi issues with kernel 4.14 onwards some what are refereed to as faulty bios's , and yours may be having a bigger impact than some.

I get acpi errors since 4.14 as well on my laptop, but not as bad as you are seeing with a crash.

try disabling acpi initially to see if this helps, thats what i found on one of the links to my errors (adding acpi=off' to /etc/grub2.conf )

it will mean that power profiles may not work, but it will help with a diagnosis.

ps there is one artical that suggests that it could be a vbox module issue, try removing virtualbox if you have it for now

and see if that helps https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/17267

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Re: Kernel panics with both 4.14.10 and 4.14.13 on Mageia 6

Postby lxdragon » Jan 22nd, '18, 17:26

Thanks everyone for the help. doktor5000's suggestion about upgrading the BIOS did the trick. I was at ver. 3.20 (2011) and I upgraded to the latest 3.60 (2016), and now I can boot into the latest 4.14.13 kernel.

Thanks,
Chris
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