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boulde

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Registered: 2009-10-05

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kernel panic

I just had 2 kernel panics, which I never had before. Using Arch on a Dell studio 15 with radeon hd 3200 video card.

I looked at the logs and found this:

% grep -i fatal /var/log/everything.log                                                                                                                                                               15:40
Dec 13 11:27:23 goudes modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting padlock_sha (/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.ko): No such device
Dec 13 14:16:15 goudes modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting padlock_sha (/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.ko): No such device
Dec 13 14:28:57 goudes modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting padlock_sha (/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.ko): No such device
Dec 13 15:27:15 goudes modprobe: FATAL: Error inserting padlock_sha (/lib/modules/2.6.36-ARCH/kernel/drivers/crypto/padlock-sha.ko): No such device

the last line and the 2nd or 3rd corresponds to the time of the kernel panics.
Is that the cause of my issue ? Shall I try to replace the actual kernel (my system is up to date) with the previous version ?
Thanks,

Last edited by boulde (2010-12-13 14:47:22)

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Re: kernel panic

I don't think it has to do anything with your issue; your system simply does not have a VIA CPU (which have the Via Padlock encryption engine), hence why modprobe errors out.

You should try loading the module manually, if that causes a kernel panic, then you can be pretty sure that's the cause; but temporal proximity isn't a causal link per se .

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boulde

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Re: kernel panic

you're right, modprobe padlock_sha did not crash my laptop ;-)
any ideas on where I should look at ?

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Re: kernel panic

Is there anything else in your logs that could shed a light on the problem? I don't know of anything else you could check - kernel panics are iffy :-/

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boulde

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Registered: 2009-10-05

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Re: kernel panic

no, I see no other hint in the logs, wait & see if it happens again ...