CentOS - Oct 2010 - qemu-kvm segfaults on starting guests

I have a Centos 5.5 on an AMD 64 system (Athlon II x2 250).

I caught up on updates today, including
-- kernel 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5
-- glibc 2.5-49.el5_5.5.i686

I have several guests that were working before the update, but now none of
them will boot.

With each attempt I get a message in /var/log/messages:
-- kernel: qemu-kvm[xx]: segfault at 000000379fc0da11 rip 00002b9f2732283f
rsp 00000000446a6e80 error 7

Has this happened to others? Any fix. I see similar bugreports, but they are
not recent, and not quite like this. The closest thing I can find was on an
nvidia list about vmware posted today -- so maybe this has something to do
with needing to rebuild the nvidia drivers with every kernel update.

Any ideas?
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On Sun, Oct 17, 2010 at 3:11 PM, Negative <negativebinomial at gmail.com>
wrote:
> I have a Centos 5.5 on an AMD 64 system (Athlon II x2 250).
>
> I caught up on updates today, including
> -- kernel 2.6.18-194.17.1.el5
> -- glibc 2.5-49.el5_5.5.i686
>
> I have several guests that were working before the update, but now none of
> them will boot.
>
> With each attempt I get a message in /var/log/messages:
> -- kernel: qemu-kvm[xx]: segfault at 000000379fc0da11 rip 00002b9f2732283f
> rsp 00000000446a6e80 error 7
>
> Has this happened to others? Any fix. I see similar bugreports, but they
are
> not recent, and not quite like this. The closest thing I can find was on an
> nvidia list about vmware posted today -- so maybe this has something to do
> with needing to rebuild the nvidia drivers with every kernel update.
>
> Any ideas?
As you noted, the latest version 260.19.12 causes segfault:

http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=156168

Until Nvidia fixes the issue, the only solution known so far is to go
back to an earlier version.

Akemi