[SOLVED] Kernel Panics made me cry.

Kebertx · 2012-10-24 01:38:54

rtl8180_init:Error channel plan! Set to default.

That's the only "Error" I could grep out of my dmesg log, I should have snapped a picture.

I had three kernel panics earlier today (this is after two panics on the 18th), the result of which has been a lot of worry, and a few manly tears during a physics lecture.

I was getting random kernel panics on the 3.5 kernel, but they went away after I blacklisted btusb (no clue why, didn't care tbqh). Now it seems my worries from the days of this thread are back.

To be frank, I have absolutely no clue how to deal with kernel panics, they just make me incredibly anxious and scared. And they are happening entirely too frequent for me to handle. I need someone to help me help myself. I need to know what is wrong so I can fix it and leave behind my fears that my system is unstable. What do I look for? What do I do? Should I just downgrade?

ALSO, I tried linux-lts, It throws me a million and one errors having to do with btrfs, so I switched back to the 3.6 kernel. I don't have the old package in /var/cache. Should I just give up on life, move to debian stable, and quietly weep?

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twelveeighty · 2012-10-24 03:00:35

Maybe I'm feeding a troll here, but can you give us some facts instead of emotional issues? Was this system ever running fine? What happened since? Is this from a pacman update, hardware change?

Kebertx · 2012-10-24 05:27:58

Sorry, I'm not trolling. Just baffled, really.

No hardware changes. I upgraded to the 3.6 kernel about a week ago, which seems to have brought back an issue of seemingly random kernel panics. By random, I mean that I can't find a logical connection between them. I'll be connecting to a wireless network, waking up my computer from suspend, unplugging it from it's charger, or not doing anything at all, and every once in a while one of these things apparently confuses my system and I get a panic. Three times today, the day after I switched from initscripts to systemd, Twice five days ago before I changed. I don't think that upgrade is related.

I found some pictures I took on the 18th. This probably isn't the best way to present information, but...

I see "try_to_wake_up" in the error mess, as well as references to [r8187se], which is my wireless driver. I don't know what to do with any of the information it's given me, though. Ideas?

Stebalien · 2012-10-24 05:47:35

When something says "kernel BUG at ..." it's generally a kernel bug . Please report it upstream (bugzilla.kernel.org) and include those pictures.

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Lekensteyn · 2012-10-24 09:33:28

"Tainted: G C" and "r8187se(C)"

The C taint flag means that the kernel is marked as "tainted crap" by the r8187se module. This flags is set for modules in the staging directory. Between 10 April 2010 and now, there are only changes to coding style, comments, small kernel API changes and other trivial errors. I think this module is pretty unmaintained. Maybe there is a different driver you can use?

Kebertx · 2012-10-24 15:28:33

Lekensteyn wrote:

"Tainted: G C" and "r8187se(C)"
The C taint flag means that the kernel is marked as "tainted crap" by the r8187se module. This flags is set for modules in the staging directory. Between 10 April 2010 and now, there are only changes to coding style, comments, small kernel API changes and other trivial errors. I think this module is pretty unmaintained. Maybe there is a different driver you can use?

Sure enough... I went out and found this. RTL8187SE is listed under unsupported chips, and it links users here, which is "the vendor driver converted to compile with a 2.6.29, or later, kernel." I'm now fairly certain it's my wireless card.

Upon failing to make this work, I suppose I could install ndiswrapper and download the non-free driver that all the Windozers are using (still better than Debian).

I filed a bug report, and found lots of internet info about this wireless bug, which is all I really wanted. I guess I'll mark this solved. Thanks Arch people!

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#1 2012-10-24 01:38:54

[SOLVED] Kernel Panics made me cry.

#2 2012-10-24 03:00:35

Re: [SOLVED] Kernel Panics made me cry.

#3 2012-10-24 05:27:58

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#4 2012-10-24 05:47:35

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