On Mon, 2012-06-04 at 10:03 +0200, Andrea Musuruane wrote: > On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Adam Williamson <awilliam@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> * 3rd attempt: > >> Same as options as the 2nd attempt but this time I chose to enable > >> only the F17 remote repositories and I disabled the "Install repo" so > >> I presume all the packages were downloaded from the net. At about 85% > >> of installation I got a kernel panic - this time I took care of the > >> message "unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at > >> 0000000000000088". > > > > Frankly, I wouldn't trust your hardware. > > > > The installer uses the same kernel as the installed system, so even if > > you get it to install (which apparently you finally did), if you're > > getting quasi-random kernel panics, I wouldn't be at all surprised if > > you keep getting them on the installed system. > > > > That (and 'inexplicable' errors like failure to read a package on > > known-good media) points either to bad hardware or a kernel bug specific > > to your system in some way (as we don't have any known general kernel > > breakage AFAIK). You'd definitely need to get better data on one of the > > crashes (i.e. an actual log, or at least screen capture) and give it to > > the kernel team, to look into it. > > > > It may be worth running memtest on the system, first, though. > > Everything can be and I will run memtest as you advised. > > But I didn't had any kernel problem in the past - and I've used every > Fedora release on the same PC for about 4 years. After I could bypass > this problem - I could install the system, including I think all the > RPMs anaconda was trying to install without any problem. Note that I > don't run the same kernel used by anaconda because in fedora updates > there is available a newer one. > > Anyway, in case I hit this issue again, I would be interested to know > how to get the log of this kind of error. Depending on how hard the fail is, it may be in /var/log/messages when you reboot. If not, all you can do is take a picture of the screen when the crash comes, or maybe try and use netconsole: http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt which I've got working once, but it's a bit finicky. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
