Kernel panic on boot, since 3.3.1

[fudgeboy]

Since the 3.3.1 kernel arrived in the F16 repos, my machine has been throwing a kernel panic on boot. It can still boot 3.2.10 happily, but nothing after that.

The exact error message, straight after "Loading initial ramdisk..."

PANIC: early exception 06 rip 10:ffffffff81d369ef error 0 cr2 0

This is a Dell XPS L501X, running a fully updated 64-bit build of F16.

I had thought that I would just cope with booting an older kernel until the arrival of F17, but I've just booted F17 alpha, and I get the same error. I've tried all the kernel parameters I can think of: noapic, disableapic, mce=off, acpi=off.

I've got quite a few machines lying around, and they all work just fine except this one.

Any ideas?

James

---------- Post added at 12:54 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:26 PM ----------

An update: I've discovered that it boots OK if I disable wifi in the BIOS! That is useful as a clue as to where things are going wrong, but not much of a workaround on a laptop...

lshw reports:

*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: Centrino Wireless-N 1000
vendor: Intel Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:04:00.0
logical name: wlan0
version: 00
serial: 00:26:c7:e2:9a:ac
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlwifi driverversion=3.2.10-3.fc16.x86_64 firmware=39.31.5.1 build 35138 ip=192.168.0.108 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bgn
resources: irq:55 memory:f0500000-f0501fff

[jmadda]

I'm having the same problem, same Dell XPS L501X, 3.2.9 is working fine, 3.3.* won't boot.

[axel2078]

That's odd. Your laptops must be just slightly older than mine. I have a Dell XPS L502X and I'm booting just fine in kernel 3.3.1-3.

[CBindahouse]

I've got the same problem, same laptop (XPS L501X). Can't seem to get it to boot by disabling the wireless in the BIOS, unless I'm missing something.
Also had to disable the nVidia drivers (from rpmfusion) as they don't seem to be booting with the older 3.2.10 kernel any more.

[nordicskiah]

Dell Studio XPS 13 - Same problem

64-bit FC16

Same errors for 3.3.1-3 and 3.3.1-5

Clean boot into 3.1.0-7 (next most recent due to recent install)

[solo2101]

yum reinstall the new kernel, maybe that will help

[nordicskiah]

Originally Posted by solo2101

yum reinstall the new kernel, maybe that will help

#yum remove kernel
#yum install kernel
reboot

Code: bad RIP value.
RIP [<             (null)>]      (null)
RSP <ffff88013fc0300>
CR2: 0
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
panic occurred, switching back to text console

Followed by nothing...

[Dan]

Ok, guys. Get on over to bugzilla and file a bug report on this, or add your two cents to one that's already there. They don't know what's broke until we tell them.

[jayfree]

Live usb kernel panicked for me, but I added modprobe.blacklist=ite_cir to the kernel line at boot and it works. Looks like the ir driver was stopping mine from boot, and I don't need it anyway.