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We need more information. Is this a fresh install or was it working and suddenly quit? What OS are you running? What have you tried? A single line gives us close to zero information and no way to help you. The more information you provide, the more likely you are to get a helpful answer
Probably something at the 'other end' of the 'stack trace' is more relevant;
system_call... is more of a 'common beginning'. Take a look here, just as a *sample* (NOT related to your panic)
Sometimes there is an "EIP", or error message that might be related.
Is there any way that you can 'take a picture' to post (as image)? Do other distro .iso's boot?
Suggests that some kernel upgrade may have caused it.
It never hurts to have a backup before this happens but you can and maybe should use some live media to investigate the state of the filesystem. The current distro of what you have may be used if they offer a live or hybrid version.
Might be able to boot to older kernel to test from boot loader.
We need more information. Is this a fresh install or was it working and suddenly quit? What OS are you running? What have you tried? A single line gives us close to zero information and no way to help you. The more information you provide, the more likely you are to get a helpful answer
The EzekielProject,
It was working and I was upgrading or installing something when it quit. It's been a while since I worked on it, but had encountered either a X-win of FSTab problem and was working with that, when the fail happened.
Thank goodness I have other machines, so I'm still working but missing my security blanket laptop!
Suggests that some kernel upgrade may have caused it.
It never hurts to have a backup before this happens but you can and maybe should use some live media to investigate the state of the filesystem. The current distro of what you have may be used if they offer a live or hybrid version.
Might be able to boot to older kernel to test from boot loader.
jefro,
I've tried several times (actually over 12 attempts) to install CloneZilla, but can never get it to work right and also have the same type of problems trying to get Bacula to work as well!
Probably something at the 'other end' of the 'stack trace' is more relevant;
system_call... is more of a 'common beginning'. Take a look here, just as a *sample* (NOT related to your panic)
Sometimes there is an "EIP", or error message that might be related.
Is there any way that you can 'take a picture' to post (as image)? Do other distro .iso's boot?
Jjanel,
Per your link I remember I was working on this "freeze" bug!
If I remember right, the HOWTO I was working from, said to purge X-Win and re-install, however it also said "REBOOT" after the X-Win purge, and this error, the "0x1a/0x1f" part is actually trying to call X-Win, which now no longer exists, therefore the error.
So thinking I need to recover from LiveDVD, but never seems to get the options right, causing more difficulty that a fresh install, where of course you lose your files.
Amazing *patience* (thru sooo much debugging)! Being a ancient computer person, I like to
understand things from 'the bottom up'. That might be useful with this panic. Here's a research (web-search) idea:
linux boot sequence in detail|tutorial panic initramfs|initrd
It looks like grub starts-up [some/'good'?] *kernel* ok, but [maybe] that kernel
never even gets to init [or does it?].
It [usually] uses/depends-on the initrd/initramfs being 'ok'.
(*I* need to study more about: where/how [any 'bad'/wrong] kernel *modules* come into play here)
Do you have any [clever] way to post screen-shots/pictures of the panic(s)?
One 'off the wall' idea (of questionable value here) is to 'throw' the famous BootRepairDisk at it
(that webposts a ton of info IF it can bring up a net device)
Amazing *patience* (thru sooo much debugging)! Being a ancient computer person, I like to
understand things from 'the bottom up'. That might be useful with this panic. Here's a research (web-search) idea:
linux boot sequence in detail|tutorial panic initramfs|initrd
It looks like grub starts-up [some/'good'?] *kernel* ok, but [maybe] that kernel
never even gets to init [or does it?].
It [usually] uses/depends-on the initrd/initramfs being 'ok'.
(*I* need to study more about: where/how [any 'bad'/wrong] kernel *modules* come into play here)
Do you have any [clever] way to post screen-shots/pictures of the panic(s)?
One 'off the wall' idea (of questionable value here) is to 'throw' the famous BootRepairDisk at it
(that webposts a ton of info IF it can bring up a net device)
Best wishes always...
Jjanel,
No Screen shots at all, since it will not boot even in recovery mode.
I fixed this by doing a "Whole Disk" install of the OS again, but not a resolution to the problem in anyway.
Therefore I'm just informing the community this is no longer an issue for me, but will not mark it solved/resolved because this was a "work around" not an actual solution.
Just couldn't be without the portability of the laptop anymore, especially since I blew out my back and have been more or less bed ridden while I recover. Sitting in a chair is just not the mode for work right now!
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