Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 virtual machines running on AMD based hosts panic on boot
book
Article ID: 311315
calendar_today
Updated On:
Products
VMware vSphere ESXi
Show More
Show Less
Issue/Introduction
Symptoms:
Virtual machines running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 (x86 or x86_64 architectures) on AMD Opteron 6000-series based hosts panic on boot. This crash signature is produced:Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000040 RIP: [<ffffffff8008192f>] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/0x356 PGD 0 Oops: 0000 [1] SMP last sysfs file: CPU 0 Modules linked in: Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.18-194.el5 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8008192f>] [<ffffffff8008192f>] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/6 RSP: 0000:ffff81010fc75d60 EFLAGS: 00010246 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: 0000000000000060 RCX: 00000000000006aa RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000060 RDI: 0000000000000003 RBP: ffff81010f765580 R08: 0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000040 R10: ffff81010fc75cf0 R11: 0000000000000060 R12: 0000000000000080 R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: 0000000000000003 FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffffffff803cb000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0018 ES: 0018 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000040 CR3: 0000000000201000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process swapper (pid: 1, threadinfo ffff81010fc74000, task ffff81010fc657a0) Stack: ffff81010fc75e00 000280000f765ec0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 0000000040020140 00000000000000d0 ffff810140020140 0000000000000286 00000000000006a9 0000000000000000 0000000017c0003f 0000000000000000 Call Trace: [<ffffffff80081c48>] cacheinfo_cpu_callback+0xe9/0x516 [<ffffffff80081c93>] cacheinfo_cpu_callback+0x134/0x516 [<ffffffff800820ae>] cache_sysfs_init+0x39/0x54 [<ffffffff80407a5c>] init+0x1f9/0x2f7 [<ffffffff8005efb1>] child_rip+0xa/0x11 [<ffffffff801824cc>] acpi_ds_init_one_object+0x0/0x80 [<ffffffff80407863>] init+0x0/0x2f7 [<ffffffff8005efa7>] child_rip+0x0/0x11 Code: 8b 72 40 48 8d 4c 24 1c 48 8b 7a 20 ba c4 01 00 00 e8 5f 77 RIP [<ffffffff8008192f>] cpuid4_cache_lookup+0x256/0x356 RSP <ffff81010fc75d60> CR2: 0000000000000040 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
Environment
VMware ESX 4.0.x VMware ESXi 4.0.x Embedded VMware vSphere ESXi 5.0 VMware ESXi 4.1.x Embedded VMware ESXi 4.0.x Installable VMware ESXi 4.1.x Installable VMware ESX 4.1.x
Resolution
This is not a VMware issue.
For more information about this issue, see the Redhat Knowledge Base article
37935 .
Note : The preceding link was correct as of August 14, 2013. If you find the link is broken, provide feedback and a VMware employee will update the link.
Feedback
thumb_up
Yes
thumb_down
No