Re: 10.3: kernel panic after online update

On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 20:13 +0100, Rudolf Schuh wrote:
> Hi,
> since update from 10.2 to 10.3 I have got a lot of trouble. A view days ago 
> after an online update my external usb disk did not work anymore. The only 
> solution I found was do install 10.3 anew. After that anything worked without 
> problems until the next update to new kernel 2.6.22.12-0.1 -586.
> 
> After that update I've got the following message during boot:
> 
> EIP (<f0a60f35>) sony_pic_irq+0xfa/0x15a (sony_laptop) SS:ESP 0068:efc85ea0
> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exeption in interupt
> 
> that was it. The only way to start the laptop again was with Failsafe and to 
> go back to the original kernel from the dvd.
> 
> Sony laptop: PCG-GRX316G

Could you open a bug for that pls on bugzilla.novell.com and assign it
to me, pls.
It could take some time until I come to it, though.

sony_laptop sounds like the sony laptop module, but this one should not
have anything to do with irqs?
Can you try a lsmod |grep sony and add the info to the bug, pls.
If there are any sony related modules loaded, you can avoid them to get
loaded, by e.g. add a file:
/etc/modprobe.d/sony_blacklist
which looks like:
install sony_laptop /bin/logger "Module xy blacklisted and not loaded"

Does the machine work better without the sony_laptop module?

Also attach acpidump output to the bug.

Thanks,

   Thomas