> Hi Nigel, > > 2009/9/18 Nigel Malthus <malthi@xxxxxxxxxx>: > > Possble bug and question of etiquette: > > I'm getting consistent kernel panics evidently associated with the > > media checker thread, every time my cd drawer closes. > > > > I can't see it mentioned already in Trac, after searching as well > > as I > > can. > > > > But this is revision 32959, dated Sept 6. Is it poor form to post a > > bug > > about an old revision? I don't intend upgrading to Alpha until I > > can > > get a physical cd from CafePress. > > > > And apart from the initial message, what else would be helpful? > > syslog? > > Kdl looks daunting but is there something obvious/easy for me to do > > to > > capture useful debug data? > > Could you dump the initial message here? It might be in the ATA > driver, in which case it is better to see if the problem still exists > in the apha 1 (because a lot of changes have been made to the ATA > code > between then and the alpha). If it's another problem then you might > create a bug report with your 'older' build. So let's see if we can > find out where the issue is. > > Kind regards, > > Niels It says: page fault but interrupts were disabled touching address 0x00000010 from eip 0x000428cc Thread 25 "media checker" running on CPU0 this on a single-core Pentium III I have two optical drives, a cd drive on /dev/disk/atapi/1/master and a dvd/cd writer on dev/disk/atapi/1/slave. It only happens on the master, but I haven't tried fiddling the jumpers to see it if stays on the master even if the physical drives are swapped around. Doesn't matter if there's a disk in the drive or not. I hope this helps. Nigel Malthus, Christchurch, NZ. "The only real way to look younger is not to be born so soon." -- Charles Schulz, "Things I've Had to Learn Over and Over and Over"