BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008

Bug #628606 reported by 23dornot23d
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #614008: lshw causes laptop to freeze up. Edit Remove
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Bug Description

Not sure why this happened - last thing that I did was update the Nvidia Driver to 256.53

ProblemType: KernelOops
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: linux-image-2.6.35-19-generic 2.6.35-19.28
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: No
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-19.28-generic 2.6.35.3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-19-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted.
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: keith 1788 F.... pulseaudio
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf0500000 irq 46'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP77/78 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,10250142,00100202 HDA:11c11040,10250142,00100200 HDA:10de0003,10de0101,00100000'
   Controls : 32
   Simple ctrls : 17
Date: Thu Sep 2 06:00:17 2010
Failure: oops
Frequency: This has only happened once.
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=eac079ff-dc42-49d6-b73a-0b8a8fa7d8bc
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Alpha i386 (20100718)
MachineType: Acer, inc. Aspire 7730ZG
ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-19-generic root=UUID=56d12a92-6e7e-409f-918f-41d096af4be7 ro quiet splash
RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.38
RfKill:
 0: phy0: Wireless LAN
  Soft blocked: no
  Hard blocked: no
SourcePackage: linux
Title: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008
dmi.bios.date: 10/17/2008
dmi.bios.vendor: Acer
dmi.bios.version: v0.3611
dmi.board.name: Mammoth
dmi.board.vendor: Acer, Inc.
dmi.board.version: Not Applicable
dmi.chassis.type: 1
dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer, Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: N/A
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAcer:bvrv0.3611:bd10/17/2008:svnAcer,inc.:pnAspire7730ZG:pvrNotApplicable:rvnAcer,Inc.:rnMammoth:rvrNotApplicable:cvnAcer,Inc.:ct1:cvrN/A:
dmi.product.name: Aspire 7730ZG
dmi.product.version: Not Applicable
dmi.sys.vendor: Acer, inc.

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23dornot23d (keithaerospace92) wrote :
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23dornot23d (keithaerospace92) wrote :

Last thing to be done before I got this error .....

Added the latest Nvidia drivers 256.53

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :

Hi,
  We believe that this bug was fixed by a new kernel (2.6.35-21.30) released a couple of weeks ago. Please test that the

lshw

command completes on your machine without an oops, and comment here either way.

Dave

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
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23dornot23d (keithaerospace92) wrote :
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Ok today I did a full aptitude safe-upgrade ..... now running 260.19.06 - No problems .....

 here is the Xorg,log ....... just for information ..... if its of use to you .........

[code]
[ 31.222]
X.Org X Server 1.9.0
Release Date: 2010-08-20
[ 31.222] X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
[ 31.222] Build Operating System: Linux 2.6.24-27-server i686 Ubuntu
[ 31.222] Current Operating System: Linux keith-laptop 2.6.35-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Sun Sep 19 20:34:50 UTC 2010 i686
[ 31.222] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.35-22-generic root=UUID=16f79f1e-44c0-407d-a7e7-ef59fac8b4f2 ro quiet splash
[ 31.222] Build Date: 16 September 2010 05:39:22PM
[ 31.222] xorg-server 2:1.9.0-0ubuntu7 (For technical support please see http://www.ubuntu.com/support)
[ 31.225] Current version of pixman: 0.18.4
[ 31.225] Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
 to make sure that you have the latest version.
[ 31.225] Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
 (++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
 (WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
[ 31.226] (==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Wed Oct 6 00:21:59 2010
[ 31.297] (==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
[ 31.297] (==) Using system config directory "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d"
[ 31.637] (==) No Layout section. Using the first Screen section.
[ 31.637] (**) |-->Screen "Default Screen" (0)
[ 31.637] (**) | |-->Monitor "<default monitor>"
[ 31.637] (==) No device specified for screen "Default Screen".
 Using the first device section listed.
[ 31.637] (**) | |-->Device "Default Device"
[ 31.637] (==) No monitor specified for screen "Default Screen".
 Using a default monitor configuration.
[ 31.637] (==) Automatically adding devices
[ 31.637] (==) Automatically enabling devices
[ 31.676] (WW) The directory "/usr/share/fonts/X11/cyrillic" does not exist.
[ 31.676] Entry deleted from font path.
[ 31.736] (==) FontPath set to:
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/misc,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/:unscaled,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/:unscaled,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi,
 /usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi,
 /var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType,
 built-ins
[ 31.736] (==) ModulePath set to "/usr/lib/xorg/extra-modules,/usr/lib/xorg/modules"
[ 31.736] (II) The server relies on udev to provide the list of input devices.
 If no devices become available, reconfigure udev or disable AutoAddDevices.
[ 31.736] (II) Loader magic: 0x81f8e00
[ 31.736] (II) Module ABI versions:
[ 31.736] X.Org ANSI C Emulation: 0.4
[ 31.736] X.Org Video Driver: 8.0
[ 31.736] X.Org XInput driver : 11.0
[ 31.736] X.Org Server Extension : 4.0
[ 31.737] (--) PCI:*(0:1:0:0) 10de:06e9:1025:0142 rev 161, Mem @ 0xce000000/16777216, 0xd0000000/268435456, 0xcc000000/33554432, I/O @ 0x00002000/128
[ 31.738] (II) Open ACPI successful (/var/run/acpid.socket)
[ 31.738] (II) "extmod" will be loaded by default.
[ 31.738] (II) "dbe" will be loaded by default.
[ 31.738] (II) "glx" will be loaded. This was enabled by d...

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23dornot23d (keithaerospace92) wrote :

Here is the full kernel log link to my latest one ....

https://sites.google.com/site/000menu/home/kernel-log-latest

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :

Hi,
  Thanks for that - could you just confirm that the command

sudo lshw

completes OK?

Dave

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23dornot23d (keithaerospace92) wrote :
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lshw Completes ok ............ not sure how to Pipe the output to a file ....... here is what I got on the screen from it .......

             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pci subtractive_decode bus_master cap_list
        *-isa
             description: ISA bridge
             product: ICH9M LPC Interface Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.0
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: isa bus_master cap_list
             configuration: latency=0
        *-storage
             description: SATA controller
             product: ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller
             vendor: Intel Corporation
             physical id: 1f.2
             bus info: pci@0000:00:1f.2
             logical name: scsi0
             logical name: scsi1
             version: 03
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 66MHz
             capabilities: storage msi pm ahci_1.0 bus_master cap_list emulated
             configuration: driver=ahci latency=0
             resources: irq:45 ioport:18f0(size=8) ioport:18e4(size=4) ioport:18e8(size=8) ioport:18e0(size=4) ioport:18c0(size=32) memory:f0504000-f05047ff
           *-disk
                description: ATA Disk
                product: ST9250827AS
                vendor: Seagate
                physical id: 0
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
                logical name: /dev/sdb
                version: 3.AA
                serial: 5RG76V48
                size: 232GiB (250GB)
                capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
                configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=50a5b170
              *-volume:0
                   description: Windows FAT volume
                   vendor: MSWIN4.1
                   physical id: 1
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
                   logical name: /dev/sdb1
                   version: FAT32
                   serial: 2507-11e7
                   size: 1003MiB
                   capacity: 1004MiB
                   capabilities: primary bootable fat initialized
                   configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat label=ZY2P1
              *-volume:1
                   description: EXT4 volume
                   vendor: Linux
                   physical id: 2
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
                   logical name: /dev/sdb2
                   version: 1.0
                   serial: c7a88754-bede-4cce-ad5b-91b9a5cc8178
                   size: 62GiB
                   capacity: 62GiB
                   capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                   configuration: created=2010-09-08 18:52:11 filesystem=ext4 label=sda2_UE_OS lastmountpoint=/Z�CW����������N�������"����������Q�Q����� �4�����"�� modified=2010-10-04 18:13:17 mounted=2010-10-05 18:55:06 state=clean
              *-volume:2
                   description: Extended partition
                   physical id: 3
                   bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,3
                   logical name: /dev/sd...

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Dave Gilbert (ubuntu-treblig) wrote :

Seems to work, the oops is as of the bug 614008 so will dupe.

Changed in linux (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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