Comment 171 for bug 869502
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I also see this or similar behaviour with both 2.6.40 kernel updates, but not 2.6.38.
Often the system doesn't drop to text mode, or the screen is scrambled with panic text overlaid. I also get a panic if I login in text-mode, but it usually takes longer.
The most common panic is "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference", although sometimes it's "Not syncing".
/var/log/messages contains over 300 MiB of such text:
"BUG: scheduling while atomic: swapper"
"bad: scheduling from the idle thread!"
My system: Fedora 15 x86-64, Intel Core i7 940, Asus P6T Deluxe motherboard, NVIDIA 9800 GT graphics with default up-to-date nouveau driver, untainted kernel.
(Screen-shots and log extracts available on request.)
Gareth