CentOS - Jun 2008 - CentOS 5.2 kernel [2.6.18-92.1.1.el5] crashes on dual-PIII Compaq ProLiant 3000

After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ] 
crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000
with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping 03,
CPU1 the same).

I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.

The previous kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i686 ] seems to work fine.

I am wondering if anyone has met this on PIII CPU ?

I have found 99.9% identical problem on
http://www.nabble.com/net-5501-and-RHEL5.2-td18024549.html

(only esp and task slightly different from what I have seen on screen after
crash,
all other registers, call trace, code bytes identical to my case) , 
but that was on a different CPU.

On the other hand, I run CentOS upgraded to 5.2 on a home PC with PIII (single
CPU,
  Abit motherboard with i440BX chipset) with no problem.

Is it normal, that powernowk8_init gets called on PIII CPU?

Best regards,

Wojtek

On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 9:36 AM, Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz at bdk.pl>
wrote:
> After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ]
> crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000
> with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping
03, CPU1 the same).
>
> I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.
>
> The previous kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i686 ] seems to work fine.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has met this on PIII CPU ?
>
> I have found 99.9% identical problem on
> http://www.nabble.com/net-5501-and-RHEL5.2-td18024549.html
>
...snip...

You are definitalty  not alone on this. See
http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2912. Maybe add a note there that
you have the same issue and report your system config. It looks likes
it only happens on older PII and PIII machines.

Regards,
Tim

-- 
Tim Verhoeven - tim.verhoeven.be at gmail.com - 0479 / 88 11 83

Hoping the problem magically goes away by ignoring it is the
"microsoft approach to programming" and should never be allowed.
(Linus Torvalds)

>> I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.
I don't have the necessary knowledge to evaluate kernel related issues, 
but it seems to me that there's some kind of confusion involved here.
People are reporting problems with Intel Pentium II and III machines yet 
PowerNow is a speed throttling </wiki/CPU_throttling> and power saving 
technology used in AMD processors.
Should powernowk8 be called when Intel processors are present?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerNow!
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Wojtek Pilorz <wpilorz at bdk.pl> wrote:
> After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ]
> crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000
> with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping
> 03, CPU1 the same).
>
> I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.
>
> The previous kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i686 ] seems to work fine.
>
> I am wondering if anyone has met this on PIII CPU ?
>
> I have found 99.9% identical problem on
> http://www.nabble.com/net-5501-and-RHEL5.2-td18024549.html
>
> (only esp and task slightly different from what I have seen on screen after
> crash,
> all other registers, call trace, code bytes identical to my case) ,
> but that was on a different CPU.
>
> On the other hand, I run CentOS upgraded to 5.2 on a home PC with PIII
> (single CPU,
>  Abit motherboard with i440BX chipset) with no problem.
>
> Is it normal, that powernowk8_init gets called on PIII CPU?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Wojtek
>
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Is this the same issue I am having on my Celeron 2.6 GHz box, where the new
Kernel dies, after "starting udev" is shown on the CRT?
Warm reboot, after "yum update" yesterday worked fine, but, after
powering
down the box and powering up, I cannot boot into the new Kernel. New Kernel
is booting perfectly, on a P4   1.6 GHz box.
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Wojtek Pilorz wrote:
> After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686 ]
> crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000
> with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai) stepping
03, CPU1 the same).
> 
> I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.
> 
> The previous kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i686 ] seems to work fine.
> 
> I am wondering if anyone has met this on PIII CPU ?
> 
> I have found 99.9% identical problem on
> http://www.nabble.com/net-5501-and-RHEL5.2-td18024549.html
> 
> (only esp and task slightly different from what I have seen on screen after
crash,
> all other registers, call trace, code bytes identical to my case) , 
> but that was on a different CPU.
> 
> On the other hand, I run CentOS upgraded to 5.2 on a home PC with PIII
(single CPU,
>   Abit motherboard with i440BX chipset) with no problem.
> 
> Is it normal, that powernowk8_init gets called on PIII CPU?
> 
We have created a new test kernel that has an upstream patch to fix this 
issue, please test this and see if it fixes your issues:

http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel/5/bz443853/


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On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 06:56:12PM -0500, Johnny Hughes
wrote:
> Wojtek Pilorz wrote:
> >After yum upgrade, the new CentOS5 kernel [
kernel-2.6.18-92.1.1.el5.i686
> >] crashes each time early in boot process on Compaq ProLiant 3000
> >with dual Pentium3 CPU (600 MHz, CPU0: Intel Pentium III (Katmai)
stepping
> >03, CPU1 the same).
> >
> >I get kernel panic at powernowk8_init+0x05e/0x1c3.
> >
> >The previous kernel [ kernel-2.6.18-53.1.21.el5.i686 ] seems to work
fine.
> >
[...]
> 
> We have created a new test kernel that has an upstream patch to fix this 
> issue, please test this and see if it fixes your issues:
> 
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel/5/bz443853/
> 
Yes,

the problem machine (Compaq ProLiant 3000) boots fine with this test kernel.

Thank you very much!

Wojtek

2008/6/26 Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>:
>
> We have created a new test kernel that has an upstream patch to fix this
> issue, please test this and see if it fixes your issues:
>
> http://people.centos.org/hughesjr/kernel/5/bz443853/
>
So this is for those who already have a booting Centos.
Is there a work-around for those trying to install on a Powernow
system with a 5.2 media?
Or do they have to have to revert to trying a 5.1 media?

-Mauriat