Help debugging kernel BUG

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:29:13PM -0500, Ian Petersen wrote:
> It's a Dell Precision M90 laptop.  The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo
> T7200 at 2GHz (family 6, model 15, stepping 6).  I have 2 GB of RAM, a
> "NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express" network card, an
> Intel "PRO/Wireless 3945ABG", and an nVidia "G71 [Quadro FX 2500M]"
> video card (but the error presents itself even without the binary blob
> loaded).  Most of the onboard components are by Intel, and the main
> chipset seems to be in the ICH7 Family.  I'm not sure exactly what
> kind of harddrive I have, but it's a SATA drive at 7200 RPM, and dmesg
> leads me to believe it's made by Hitachi: "ata1.00: ATA-7: Hitachi
> HTS721080G9SA00, MC4OC10H, max UDMA/100".  I also have a DVD+/-RW
> drive made by NEC: "ata2.00: ATAPI: _NEC DVD+/-RW ND-6650A, 102C, max
> UDMA/33".
> 
> Booting.  It's hard to know exactly what it's doing because the error
> messages fly by so quickly, but I think the first error is reported
> right after the init scripts launch udevd.  The machine gets to the
> point where it tells me what version of init is starting without
> error.  The first few init scripts start without error and then they
> start flying.  As I mentioned earlier, I think it's some kind of
> interaction with iptables because removing those modules from the
> .config fixed things--I don't see the errors anymore.

Does the network use the bnx2 driver?  I remember seeing some bug
reports for that driver recently so maybe it could be related to that.

What happens if you leave iptables enabled but disable the broadcom
ethernet driver instead?

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