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linux-source-2.6.17 package

kernel oops reading from pipe

Bug #69040 reported by Gustavo Carneiro
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linux-source-2.6.17 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
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Bug Description

From the dmesg output it looks like the process amule was reading from a pipe, which caused another process or thread to wake up, then a "BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address" message.

Tags: kernel-oops
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Gustavo Carneiro (gjc) wrote :
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Chuck Short (zulcss) wrote :

Reassigning to proper source package.

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Gustavo Carneiro (gjc) wrote :

This bug may have been a hardware problem.

I used to have frequent lockups in my computer, then I disabled AGP 4x (limit to 2x) in the BIOS and since then (a couple of weeks ago) I never again had any kind of kernel problem.

So feel free to close if you want.

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Matthew Woerly (nattgew) wrote :

Thanks for the update, I'll set to Invalid. Feel free to set your own bug to Invalid if this happens in the future, and to report any more bugs, too.

Changed in linux-source-2.6.17:
status: New → Invalid
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