From kernel.log: Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161849] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161861] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000138 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161866] IP: [<ffffffff8145aad2>] con_set_unimap+0x32/0x290 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161867] PGD 2125b8067 PUD 2125b7067 PMD 0 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161869] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161879] Modules linked in: kvm_intel kvm snd_hda_intel(+) snd_hda_codec i915(+) snd_hwdep snd_pcm crct10dif_pclmul snd_page_alloc snd_seq_midi crc32_pclmul snd_seq_midi_event ghash_clmulni_intel video e1000e ptp ahci pps_core libahci Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161881] CPU: 0 PID: 623 Comm: setfont Not tainted 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161881] Hardware name: /DH67CL, BIOS BLH6710H.86A.0105.2011.0301.1654 03/01/2011 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161882] task: ffff880211888000 ti: ffff8802118b2000 task.ti: ffff8802118b2000 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161884] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8145aad2>] [<ffffffff8145aad2>] con_set_unimap+0x32/0x290 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161885] RSP: 0018:ffff8802118b3d48 EFLAGS: 00010246 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161885] RAX: ffff88003692a708 RBX: 000000000161db10 RCX: 000000000000c710 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161886] RDX: 00000000000010cc RSI: 0000000000000296 RDI: 0000000000000296 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161886] RBP: ffff8802118b3db0 R08: ffff8802118b2000 R09: 0000000000000000 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161887] R10: ffff880036b55df8 R11: 0000000000000015 R12: 0000000000000000 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161887] R13: 0000000000004b67 R14: ffff88003692a400 R15: ffff88003692a400 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161888] FS: 00007fb46b751740(0000) GS:ffff88021fa00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161889] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161889] CR2: 0000000000000138 CR3: 0000000211e94000 CR4: 00000000000407f0 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161890] Stack: Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161891] ffff8802118b3d78 ffffffff813110ed ffff880211888000 0000000000000001 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161892] 0000000000004b67 ffff88003692a400 000002e1118b3d88 ffff88003692a400 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161893] 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000004b67 ffff88003692a400 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161894] Call Trace: Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161898] [<ffffffff813110ed>] ? apparmor_capable+0x1d/0x130 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161900] [<ffffffff81454973>] vt_ioctl+0xe83/0x11c0 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161902] [<ffffffff814484dd>] tty_ioctl+0x26d/0xbb0 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161905] [<ffffffff811cfd10>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e0/0x4c0 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161907] [<ffffffff8109ddf4>] ? vtime_account_user+0x54/0x60 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161908] [<ffffffff811cff71>] SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161911] [<ffffffff8172c87f>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161920] Code: 89 e5 41 57 49 89 ff 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 d3 48 83 ec 40 48 89 7d d0 89 75 cc e8 38 0c c6 ff 49 8b 87 10 03 00 00 4c 8b 20 <41> 8b 84 24 38 01 00 00 85 c0 0f 85 38 02 00 00 66 83 7d cc 00 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161922] RIP [<ffffffff8145aad2>] con_set_unimap+0x32/0x290 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161922] RSP <ffff8802118b3d48> Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161923] CR2: 0000000000000138 Jul 19 10:33:16 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.161924] ---[ end trace fd83f030e7e561a7 ]---
OS: Xubuntu 14.04
Ones again: Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237886] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237897] Modules linked in: snd_hwdep snd_pcm i915(+) coretemp snd_page_alloc kvm_intel snd_seq_midi kvm snd_seq_midi_event snd_rawmidi snd_seq video snd_seq_device crct10dif_pclmul snd_timer crc32_pclmul ghash_clmulni_intel drm_kms_helper aesni_intel drm aes_x86_64 snd lrw i2c_algo_bit gf128mul soundcore glue_helper serio_raw shpchp ablk_helper cryptd lpc_ich hid_a4tech hid_generic usbhid e1000e ahci ptp libahci hid pps_core Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237898] CPU: 2 PID: 586 Comm: setfont Not tainted 3.13.0-32-generic #57-Ubuntu Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237899] Hardware name: /DH67CL, BIOS BLH6710H.86A.0105.2011.0301.1654 03/01/2011 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237899] task: ffff88003616dfc0 ti: ffff880212ac6000 task.ti: ffff880212ac6000 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237901] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8145aad2>] [<ffffffff8145aad2>] con_set_unimap+0x32/0x290 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237902] RSP: 0018:ffff880212ac7d48 EFLAGS: 00010246 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237903] RAX: ffff88020f858b08 RBX: 0000000000d2ab10 RCX: 000000000000c710 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237903] RDX: 00000000000010b6 RSI: 0000000000000296 RDI: 0000000000000296 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237904] RBP: ffff880212ac7db0 R08: ffff880212ac6000 R09: 0000000000000001 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237904] R10: 0000000000000001 R11: 000000000000008f R12: 0000000000000000 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237905] R13: 0000000000004b67 R14: ffff88020f858800 R15: ffff88020f858800 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237913] FS: 00007fd48d21d740(0000) GS:ffff88021fb00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237914] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237914] CR2: 0000000000000138 CR3: 0000000212df8000 CR4: 00000000000407e0 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237915] Stack: Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237916] ffff880212ac7d78 ffffffff813110ed ffff88003616dfc0 0000000000000001 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237925] 0000000000004b67 ffff88020f858800 000002e112ac7d88 ffff88020f858800 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237926] 0000000000000000 0000000000000001 0000000000004b67 ffff88020f858800 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237926] Call Trace: Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237931] [<ffffffff813110ed>] ? apparmor_capable+0x1d/0x130 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237933] [<ffffffff81454973>] vt_ioctl+0xe83/0x11c0 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237935] [<ffffffff814484dd>] tty_ioctl+0x26d/0xbb0 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237938] [<ffffffff811cfd10>] do_vfs_ioctl+0x2e0/0x4c0 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237940] [<ffffffff8109ddf4>] ? vtime_account_user+0x54/0x60 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237941] [<ffffffff811cff71>] SyS_ioctl+0x81/0xa0 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237944] [<ffffffff8172c87f>] tracesys+0xe1/0xe6 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237961] Code: 89 e5 41 57 49 89 ff 41 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 89 d3 48 83 ec 40 48 89 7d d0 89 75 cc e8 38 0c c6 ff 49 8b 87 10 03 00 00 4c 8b 20 <41> 8b 84 24 38 01 00 00 85 c0 0f 85 38 02 00 00 66 83 7d cc 00 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237962] RIP [<ffffffff8145aad2>] con_set_unimap+0x32/0x290 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237963] RSP <ffff880212ac7d48> Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237963] CR2: 0000000000000138 Jul 24 15:53:18 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 14.237964] ---[ end trace 091ab75084353345 ]---
Would you mind telling me how to appear to be hiiting this bug. Regards Nick
If you meant how to reproduce it, I do not know. I just boot my comp. and boot process stops. Normally it should be: ... Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.738568] [drm] Memory usable by graphics device = 2048M Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.738571] checking generic (e0000000 500000) vs hw (e0000000 10000000) Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.738572] fb: conflicting fb hw usage inteldrmfb vs VESA VGA - removing generic driver Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.738593] Console: switching to colour dummy device 80x25 Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.780554] i915 0000:00:02.0: irq 50 for MSI/MSI-X Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.780563] [drm] Supports vblank timestamp caching Rev 2 (21.10.2013). Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.780564] [drm] Driver supports precise vblank timestamp query. Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.780610] vgaarb: device changed decodes: PCI:0000:00:02.0,olddecodes=io+mem,decodes=io+mem:owns=io+mem Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.794306] [drm] Wrong MCH_SSKPD value: 0x16040307 Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.794308] [drm] This can cause pipe underruns and display issues. Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.794309] [drm] Please upgrade your BIOS to fix this. Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.880501] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus vga] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 2 Jul 30 21:01:59 xub-14-04 kernel: [ 15.946412] fbcon: inteldrmfb (fb0) is primary device ...