Hi Nigel, 2009/9/18 Nigel Malthus <malthi@xxxxxxxxxx>: >> 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 someone on this list can help you on doing a backtrace (I don't remember how exactly). With that backtrace you can open a new bug report. Kind regards, N>