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I've now posted this in Kernel and Hardware issues, where it can be found here.
Hello,
I've been running Arch on my Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop for about 2 weeks now without a single issue. I had an encrypted drive setup with pm-utils working and not much else worth mentioning.
Today I updated with a pacman -Syu. I do not recall all of the updated packages, but since a reboot I have not been able to get back on. I shall attempt to copy as much of the error text as possible. A lot of hex is involved, which I doubt is entirely relevant, so I'll leave most of this out. One more thing worth noting is that I was bringing the laptop out of hibernation and there had been no problems until after entering my LUKS passphrase. All that is below followed:
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000
IP: [<c01b204c>] __bio_clone+0x2c/0x80
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP
Modules linked in: aes_i586 aes_generic xts gf128mul dm_crypt dm_mod crypto_blkcipher sr_mod cdrom sd_mod uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore ata_piix ahci ata_generic pata_acpi libata scsi_mod dock
Pid: 720, comm: vol_id Not tainted (2.6.27-ARCH #1)
EIP: 0060:[<c01b204c>] EFLAGS: 00010206 CPU: 0
EIP is at __bio_clone+0x2c/0x80
EAX: // Bunch of hex
ESI: // Bunch of hex
DS: // Hex...
Process vol_id (pid: 720) // hex
Stack: // Numbers, numbers, everywhere.
Call Trace:
// Might the contents of the call trace be relevant? It'd kill me to type out, but I'll do it if necessary.
Code: // as above
EIP: [<c01b204c>] __bio_clone+0x2c/0x80 SS:ESP 0068:f7057be8
--[ end trace ]---
Now, naturally I've skipped a lot of the nitty-gritty details, but I'm sure anyone would imagine why. I did try to take a picture of the screen, but I've not been able to get it to come out remotely clear. Also, I'm completely unable to do anything on the computer itself--I think my button mashing gets something to time out after 180 seconds sometimes, which allows me a ctrl+alt+delete reboot at most; failing that, it's a hardware reboot.
I use this laptop for study, so it's imperative that I get it back up and running ASAP. I also have a lot of work on this computer which I cannot afford to lose.
Help very much appreciated--I'm not computer illiterate, but this is far beyond my ability.
Last edited by Newnux (2008-12-03 15:56:09)
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