Help debugging kernel BUG

[Jamon Camisso]

On November 9, 2007 11:00:29 am Ian Petersen wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> This morning I booted my laptop to a scrolling list of kernel bugs
> that I didn't have last night.  Most of the text zips by too fast to
> read, but, by limiting the boot to single-user, no network, I was
> able to eventually get to a login prompt.  The output from dmesg is
> the same bug report repeated many times.  I've never had to deal with
> an error like this before, so I'm hoping someone can give me some
> direction.
>
> Here's the output in dmesg (I've typed this by hand, so I hope there
> are no typos):
>
> kernel BUG at net/core/skbuff,c:95!
<snip>
> If I boot the machine and press F12, I'm given the option to run a
> diagnostic.  I tried that, thinking I might have some kind of
> hardware problem, but all the tests pass (it checked the RAM, the
> video, the drives, etc.).  The machine is a Dell Precision M90 and
> it's about a year old.  I'm completely clueless about what could be
> the source of the error (besides that it's related to udev), so I'm
> not sure what information to include this email.  Please ask me for
> anything that might be relevant.

Try http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/8/22/189, also, what kernel are you 
running? Post the output of uname -a as a start. Distribution? There 
may be a bug filed against your particular distro's kernel, or if 
you've rolled your own, you can use the patch posted in that link 
above.

Jamon
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