linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic: X fails to start with new kernel (oops)

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From: Joachim B Haga <email address hidden>
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Subject: linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic: X fails to start with new kernel (oops)
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:25:46 +0200
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Package: linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic
Version: 2.6.17-10.24
Severity: important

With 2.6.17-10, X won't start (blank screen), and switching to console
doesn't work. Works fine in 2.6.17-7.

This is on an old Toshiba Satelite laptop with P3 cpu. Booted with
acpi=force because otherwise suspend doesn't work. I had a similar
problem earlier in the edgy series, but that was fixed by turning
off bootsplash, and it didn't give a kernel oops. This is written
to syslog, reproducible:

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6361206e
 printing eip:
c022bbc7
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
SMP
Modules linked in: speedstep_lib cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_stats
freq_table cpufreq_powersave cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_conservative video
tc1100_wmi sbs sony_acpi pcc_acpi i2c_ec hotkey dev_acpi button battery
container ac asus_acpi dm_mod ipv6 md_mod lp hostap_cs hostap
ieee80211_crypt orinoco_cs orinoco hermes snd_ymfpci gameport
snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus pcmcia i2c_piix4 snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss
tsdev i2c_core snd_pcm snd_opl3_lib parport_pc parport snd_timer
snd_hwdep snd_page_alloc floppy evdev snd_mpu401_uart serio_raw
snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device psmouse donauboe shpchp pci_hotplug irda snd
crc_ccitt intel_agp agpgart soundcore yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic
pcmcia_core pcspkr ext3 jbd uhci_hcd usbcore ide_generic ide_cd cdrom
ide_disk generic piix thermal processor fan capability commoncap vesafb
fbcon tileblit font bitblit softcursor
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[misc_open+71/533] Not tainted VLI
EFLAGS: 00213293 (2.6.17-10-generic #2)
EIP is at misc_open+0x47/0x215
eax: 6361206e ebx: 00000001 ecx: c037c360 edx: 63612062
esi: ca97ae80 edi: 00000000 ebp: cbe8e418 esp: c4243ed4
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process Xorg (pid: 4193, threadinfo=c4242000 task=c5fb6580)
Stack: 000000ff c0173690 0000000a c022bb80 cbfc8b40 00000000 cbe8e418
c0173dcc
       ca97ae80 00000001 ca97ae80 cbe8e418 00000000 c0173d20 c0168d56
cb7910a0
       cbf3946c ca97ae80 ffffff9c c4243f44 00000007 c0168f35 ca97ae80
00000000
Call Trace:
 <c0173690> exact_match+0x0/0x10 <c022bb80> misc_open+0x0/0x215
 <c0173dcc> chrdev_open+0xac/0x190 <c0173d20> chrdev_open+0x0/0x190
 <c0168d56> __dentry_open+0xb6/0x1e0 <c0168f35>
nameidata_to_filp+0x35/0x40
 <c0168f90> do_filp_open+0x50/0x60 <c017cb46> fasync_helper+0x26/0xe0
 <c0168c33> get_unused_fd+0x53/0xc0 <c0168fea> do_sys_open+0x4a/0xe0
 <c016b651> sys_write+0x41/0x70 <c01690bc> sys_open+0x1c/0x20
 <c0102fbb> sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79
Code: d4 c3 37 c0 0f 88 6f 02 00 00 8b 15 e8 c3 37 c0 83 ea 0c 8b 42 0c
0f 18 00 90 81 3d e8 c3 37 c0 e8 c3 37 c0 75 14 eb 4d 8d 50 f4 <8b> 42
0c 0f 18 00 90 81 fa dc c3 37 c0 74 3b 3b 1a 75 ea 8b 42
EIP: [misc_open+71/533] misc_open+0x47/0x215 SS:ESP 0068:c4243ed4
 gdm_slave_xioerror_handler: Fatal X error - Restarting :0

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers edgy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'edgy-updates'), (500, 'edgy-security'), (500, 'edgy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-7-generic
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.96-5ubuntu4 The GNU core utilities
ii initramfs-tools 0.69ubuntu14 tools for generating an initramfs
ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3ubuntu3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo

Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic recommends:
ii grub 0.97-11ubuntu12 GRand Unified Bootloader

-- debconf information:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.17-10-generic:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.17-10-generic: false
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/abort-install-2.6.17-10-generic:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.17-10-generic:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.17-10-generic:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/initrd-2.6.17-10-generic:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.17-10-generic: false
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.17-10-generic:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.17-10-generic:
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.17-10-generic: true
  linux-image-2.6.17-10-generic/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.17-10-generic: true