uname -r 3.2.0-17-generic THIS IS NOT THE KERNEL WITH THE PROBLEM; CANNOT BOOT ANY KERNEL WITH THE PROBLEM. lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu precise (development branch) Release: 12.04 apt-cache policy linux-image-generic linux-image-generic: Installed: 3.2.0.21.23 Candidate: 3.2.0.21.23 Version table: *** 3.2.0.21.23 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status When booting Alienware m17x with Precise beta (updated twice a day), all versions of kernel after 3.2.0-17 (3.2.0-18 through -21, 3.3.0-999 dailies, 3.3.0rc7precise, 3.4.0rc1precise) panic about 7 seconds into the boot sequence. I, instead, expect linux to boot. -17 boots cleanly every time on the same hardware. Managed to capture a photograph of the stack trace. Photo and background available at http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=11813173&postcount=14 The trace is ? ite_cir_isr ? wakeup_preempt_entitity.isra handle_irqevent_percpu ? check_preempt_curr handle_irq_event handle_edge_irq handle_irq do_IRQ common_interrupt ? system_call_fastpath RIP value (null)>] (null) io- not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt comm: upstart-udev-br Tainted: G D 3. panic oops_end no_context __bad_area_nosemaphore ? native_send_call_func_single_ipi bad_area_nosemaphore do_page_fault ? scsi_request_fn ? blk_complete_request ? scsi_done ? ata_scsi_go_complete page_fault ? ite+cir_isr ? wakeup_preempt_entity.isra handle_irqevent_percpu ? check_preempt_curr handle_irq_event handle_edge_irq handle_irq do_IRQ common_interrupt ? system_call_fastpath The actual stack traces for 3.3 and 3.4 kernels are different; all the versions of 3.2 produce similar traces to that given. The following commands were run on the -17 kernel listed so they are NOT from the kernel exhibiting the error. The kernels exhibiting the error cannot be booted. Installed versions of kernel (all but first have the error) linux-image-3.2.0-17-generic 3.2.0-17.27 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64bit x86 SMP linux-image-3.2.0-18-generic 3.2.0-18.29 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64bit x86 SMP linux-image-3.2.0-19-generic 3.2.0-19.31 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64bit x86 SMP linux-image-3.2.0-20-generic 3.2.0-20.33 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64bit x86 SMP linux-image-3.2.0-21-generic 3.2.0-21.34 Linux kernel image for version 3.2.0 on 64bit x86 SMP linux-image-3.3-999-generic 3.3.0-999.201203300409 Linux kernel image for version 3.3.0 on 64bit x86 SMP linux-image-3.4.0-999-generic 3.4.0-999.201204040406 Linux kernel image for version 3.4.0 on 64bit x86 SMP lspci -vvvn 00:00.0 0600: 10de:0a82 (rev b1) Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 00:00.1 0500: 10de:0a88 (rev b1) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 00:03.0 0601: 10de:0aae (rev b2) Subsystem: 10de:cb79 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle+ MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Region 0: I/O ports at 1c00 [size=256] 00:03.1 0500: 10de:0aa4 (rev b1) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- 00:03.2 0c05: 10de:0aa2 (rev b1) Subsystem: 10de:cb79 Control: I/O+ Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 10 Region 0: I/O ports at 3080 [size=64] Region 4: I/O ports at 3040 [size=64] Region 5: I/O ports at 2000 [size=64] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nForce2_smbus Kernel modules: i2c-nforce2 00:03.3 0500: 10de:0a89 (rev b1) Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- 00:03.5 0b40: 10de:0aa3 (rev b1) Subsystem: 10de:cb79 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap- 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 19 Region 0: Memory at f0600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K] Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia_current_updates, nvidia_current 00:04.0 0c03: 10de:0aa5 (rev b1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: Memory at f0886000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd 00:04.1 0c03: 10de:0aa6 (rev b1) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 23 Region 0: Memory at f0889000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:06.0 0c03: 10de:0aa7 (rev b1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 21 Region 0: Memory at f0887000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ohci_hcd 00:06.1 0c03: 10de:0aa9 (rev b1) (prog-if 20 [EHCI]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 16 Region 0: Memory at f0889400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd 00:08.0 0403: 10de:0ac0 (rev b1) Subsystem: 10de:cb79 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (500ns min, 1250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 17 Region 0: Memory at f0880000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel 00:09.0 0604: 10de:0aab (rev b1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=64 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: f0500000-f05fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr+ DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> 00:0a.0 0200: 10de:0ab0 (rev b1) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (250ns min, 5000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 20 Region 0: Memory at f0888000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K] Region 1: I/O ports at 30d0 [size=8] Region 2: Memory at f0889c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Region 3: Memory at f0889800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: forcedeth Kernel modules: forcedeth 00:0b.0 0106: 10de:0ab9 (rev b1) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz+ UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 (750ns min, 250ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 40 Region 0: I/O ports at 30e8 [size=8] Region 1: I/O ports at 30dc [size=4] Region 2: I/O ports at 30e0 [size=8] Region 3: I/O ports at 30d8 [size=4] Region 4: I/O ports at 30c0 [size=16] Region 5: Memory at f0884000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: ahci 00:0c.0 0604: 10de:0ac4 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff Memory behind bridge: ac000000-aeffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000d0000000-00000000dfffffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA+ MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:0d.0 0604: 10de:0ac5 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=03, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff Memory behind bridge: a8000000-aaffffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000b0000000-00000000bfffffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:15.0 0604: 10de:0ac6 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=04, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff Memory behind bridge: f0200000-f03fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000f0000000-00000000f01fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:16.0 0604: 10de:0ac7 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: f0400000-f04fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort+ <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:17.0 0604: 10de:0ac7 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 00:18.0 0604: 10de:0ac7 (rev b1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode]) Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Bus: primary=00, secondary=08, subordinate=08, sec-latency=0 I/O behind bridge: 0000f000-00000fff Memory behind bridge: fff00000-000fffff Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000fff00000-00000000000fffff Secondary status: 66MHz- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- <SERR- <PERR- BridgeCtl: Parity- SERR- NoISA+ VGA- MAbort- >Reset- FastB2B- PriDiscTmr- SecDiscTmr- DiscTmrStat- DiscTmrSERREn- Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: pcieport Kernel modules: shpchp 01:07.0 0c00: 1180:0832 (rev 05) (prog-if 10 [OHCI]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64 (500ns min, 1000ns max), Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f0500000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci Kernel modules: firewire-ohci 01:07.1 0805: 1180:0822 (rev 22) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f0500800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci Kernel modules: sdhci-pci 01:07.2 0880: 1180:0592 (rev 12) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f0501000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: r592 Kernel modules: r592 01:07.3 0880: 1180:0852 (rev 12) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 64, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin B routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: Memory at f0501400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: r852 Kernel modules: r852 02:00.0 0300: 10de:0618 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 23 Region 0: Memory at ae000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 3: Memory at ac000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 5: I/O ports at 4000 [size=128] Expansion ROM at <unassigned> [disabled] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia_current_updates, nvidia_current, nouveau, nvidiafb 03:00.0 0300: 10de:0618 (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller]) Subsystem: 1028:02a1 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0 Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 22 Region 0: Memory at aa000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M] Region 1: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M] Region 3: Memory at a8000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=32M] Region 5: I/O ports at 5000 [size=128] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: nvidia Kernel modules: nvidia, nvidia_current_updates, nvidia_current, nouveau, nvidiafb 06:00.0 0280: 8086:422c (rev 35) Subsystem: 8086:1301 Control: I/O- Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx- Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx- Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 41 Region 0: Memory at f0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K] Capabilities: <access denied> Kernel driver in use: iwlwifi Kernel modules: iwlwifi lspnp -vvv 00:00 PNP0c01 System board state = active allocated resources: mem 0xffc00000-0xffffffff mem 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff mem 0xfee00000-0xfeefffff mem 0xfed00000-0xfed00fff 00:01 PNP0a08 (unknown) state = active allocated resources: bus 0x0-0xff io 0xcf8-0xcff io 0x0-0xcf7 window io 0xd00-0xffff window mem 0xa0000-0xbffff window mem 0xc0000-0xc3fff window mem 0xc4000-0xc7fff window mem 0xc8000-0xcbfff window mem 0xcc000-0xcffff window mem 0xd0000-0xd3fff window mem 0xd4000-0xd7fff window mem 0xd8000-0xdbfff window mem 0xdc000-0xdffff window mem 0xe0000-0xe3fff window mem 0xe4000-0xe7fff window mem 0xe8000-0xebfff window mem 0xec000-0xeffff window mem 0xf0000-0xfffff window mem 0xa0000000-0xdfffffff window mem 0xf0000000-0xfebfffff window compatible devices: PNP0a03 PCI bus 00:02 PNP0103 High-Precision Event Timer state = active allocated resources: irq disabled irq 8 mem 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff 00:03 PNP0c02 Motherboard resources state = active allocated resources: mem 0xe0000000-0xefffffff 00:04 PNP0c02 Motherboard resources state = active allocated resources: io 0x1000-0x107f io 0x1080-0x10ff io 0x1400-0x147f io 0x1480-0x14ff io 0x1800-0x187f io 0x1880-0x18ff io 0x3040-0x307f io 0x2000-0x203f 00:05 PNP0303 IBM enhanced keyboard (101/102-key, PS/2 mouse support) state = active allocated resources: io 0x60-0x60 io 0x64-0x64 irq 1 00:06 SYN0b12 (unknown) state = active allocated resources: irq 12 compatible devices: SYN0b00 (unknown) SYN0002 Synaptics PS/2 Port Pointing Device PNP0f13 PS/2 port for PS/2-style mice 00:07 PNP0c02 Motherboard resources state = active allocated resources: io 0x10-0x1f io 0x22-0x3f io 0x44-0x5f io 0x67-0x6f io 0x72-0x73 io 0x74-0x7f io 0x91-0x93 io 0x97-0x9f io 0xa2-0xbf io 0xe0-0xef io 0x4d0-0x4d1 io 0x80-0x80 io 0x910-0x911 io 0x295-0x296 00:08 PNP0200 AT DMA controller state = active allocated resources: io 0x0-0x8 io 0xa-0xf io 0x81-0x83 io 0x87-0x87 io 0x89-0x8b io 0x8f-0x8f io 0xc0-0xd1 io 0xd4-0xdf dma 4 00:09 PNP0800 AT speaker state = active allocated resources: io 0x61-0x61 00:0a PNP0b00 AT real-time clock state = active allocated resources: io 0x70-0x71 00:0b PNP0c04 Math coprocessor state = active allocated resources: io 0xf0-0xf1 irq 13 00:0c ITE8708 (unknown) state = active allocated resources: io 0x310-0x317 irq 10 possible resources: Dependent: 00 - Priority acceptable port 0x310-0x310, align 0x0, size 0x8, 16-bit address decoding irq 10 High-Edge cat /proc/interrupts CPU0 CPU1 CPU2 CPU3 0: 113976 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge timer 1: 1143 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 7: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge 8: 1 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0 9: 1688 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi 10: 172 0 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ite-cir 11: 6 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi mmc0, firewire_ohci, r592, r852 12: 52041 0 1253 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042 16: 36 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb2 17: 271 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi snd_hda_intel 20: 0 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi eth0 21: 1480 0 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb4 22: 420 0 145 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ohci_hcd:usb3, nvidia 23: 169 0 2804 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, nvidia 40: 32747 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge ahci 41: 32276 0 0 0 PCI-MSI-edge iwlwifi NMI: 60 40 48 41 Non-maskable interrupts LOC: 16336 43575 38727 36632 Local timer interrupts SPU: 0 0 0 0 Spurious interrupts PMI: 60 40 48 41 Performance monitoring interrupts IWI: 0 0 0 0 IRQ work interrupts RES: 37783 47585 31382 32941 Rescheduling interrupts CAL: 21451 18109 29603 20635 Function call interrupts TLB: 9549 4120 2341 2600 TLB shootdowns TRM: 0 0 0 0 Thermal event interrupts THR: 0 0 0 0 Threshold APIC interrupts MCE: 0 0 0 0 Machine check exceptions MCP: 2 2 2 2 Machine check polls ERR: 1 MIS: 0
Update: blacklisting ite-cir seems to fix the problem: Ran echo "blacklist ite-cir" | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/ite-cir.conf sudo depmod -a 3.2.0-21-generic sudo update-initramfs -u -k 3.2.0-21-generic For each of the affected kernels through 3.2.0-22 and was able to consistently warmboot and coldboot. 3.3.0 and 3.4.0 dailies have an additional, probably unrelated, crash later on in the boot sequence.
I can confirm this on a Dell XPS 1340 and kernel >3.2.7 blacklisting ite_cir fixed the kernel panic issue for me. There is a related bug report for this on Archlinux: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/29240 I'm glad I don't need the infrared stuff
Should be fixed as of Ben Hutching's May 14th patches