From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754380Ab2D0GLO (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:11:14 -0400 Received: from mail-vb0-f46.google.com ([209.85.212.46]:65331 "EHLO mail-vb0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751278Ab2D0GLM convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2012 02:11:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Originating-IP: [189.105.198.102] In-Reply-To: <20120427013225.GA1011@pervalidus> References: <20120427013225.GA1011@pervalidus> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 03:11:11 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: What may be causing this kernel panic ? From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_L=2E_W=2E_Meunier?= To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2012/4/26 Frédéric L. W. Meunier: > I don't know if it's a bug in the kernel, a miscompilation or anything > else, but as soon as I start the Midnight Commander file manager on a > Linux console, what I didn't do for some time, and press F3 to read any > file, even a very small text file, I get the attached kernel panic and > need to force a reboot. > > Another strange thing is that I can't reproduce it if I start 'mc' from > a X terminal emulator. > > Also, the screenshot was made from a VirtualBox session, but the same > kernel (3.3.3) crashes my Linux installation too. I'm also attaching my > .config if it can be of any use to know where to start. https://sites.google.com/a/fredlwm.net/fredlwm/home/kernelpanic2.png is more complete and shows something about the keyboard, I guess.