Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20-5-generic
My MacBook would not boot after upgrading to Feisty (kernel hung halfway
through startup) and it looked like it was panicing while loading the
madwifi driver (though I could not tell for sure because the text
scrolled past too quickly).
So I chrooted into my system from an Edgy livecd and removed linux-
restricted-modules-2.6.20-5-generic and my computer rebooted into the
new kernel normally (without wifi, of course). I then reinstalled linux-
restricted-modules and blacklisted ath_pci and was able to boot into my
system WITH restricted modules installed. I have included the outout of
`modprobe ath_pci` below.
I realize that running Ubuntu is not supported on Intel Macs, but this
is a critical bug because you cannot even boot into a default install,
or even a feisty livecd for that matter, because of this bug. Both
Dapper and Edgy booted fine on my MacBook so this would be a major
regression. On a related note, is there a way to disable a module from
the kernel command line?
This bug may be related to Bug #77233 regarding unbootable MacBooks in
Feisty.
If there is anything I can do to help diagnose this problem further,
please let me know. Thanks.
Here is the output of modprobing ath_pci from linux-2.6.20-5-generic on
my machine:
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] Oops: 0002 [#1]
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] SMP
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] CPU: 0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] EIP: 0060:[pg0+950247448/1069057024]
Tainted: P VLI
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] EFLAGS: 00010292 (2.6.20-5-generic #2)
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] EIP is at ath_attach+0x148/0x1530 [ath_pci]
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] eax: 00000000 ebx: 0000001c ecx: 00000000
edx: f412fdcf
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] esi: df944000 edi: f4160400 ebp: f4160400
esp: f412fd40
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] Process modprobe (pid: 5732, ti=f412e000
task=f4102030 task.ti=f412e000)
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] Stack: f8f20000 f412fdc8 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] f4160000 001c0000 f4161a38 00000000
00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 00000010 f47cc3e0 c03bbe00
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] Call Trace:
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [pg0+950268144/1069057024]
ath_pci_probe+0x0/0x370 [ath_pci]
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [pg0+950258096/1069057024] ath_intr+0x0/0xb50
[ath_pci]
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [pg0+950268611/1069057024]
ath_pci_probe+0x1d3/0x370 [ath_pci]
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [sysfs_create_link+110/352]
sysfs_create_link+0x6e/0x160
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [pg0+950268144/1069057024]
ath_pci_probe+0x0/0x370 [ath_pci]
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [pci_device_probe+86/128]
pci_device_probe+0x56/0x80
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [really_probe+84/320] really_probe+0x54/0x140
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [driver_probe_device+73/192]
driver_probe_device+0x49/0xc0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [__driver_attach+158/160]
__driver_attach+0x9e/0xa0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [bus_for_each_dev+59/96]
bus_for_each_dev+0x3b/0x60
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [driver_attach+22/32] driver_attach+0x16/0x20
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [__driver_attach+0/160] __driver_attach+0x0/0xa0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [bus_add_driver+123/416]
bus_add_driver+0x7b/0x1a0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [__pci_register_driver+116/192]
__pci_register_driver+0x74/0xc0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [pg0+950095920/1069057024]
init_ath_pci+0x30/0x54 [ath_pci]
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [sys_init_module+349/7088]
sys_init_module+0x15d/0x1bb0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [sys_mmap2+205/208] sys_mmap2+0xcd/0xd0
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [sysenter_past_esp+95/137]
sysenter_past_esp+0x5f/0x89
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] =======================
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] Code: 89 40 04 c7 85 a4 17 00 00 e0 46 eb f8 8b
54 24 20 8d 84 24 88 00 00 00 89 44 24 04 8b 42 1c 89 ea 89 04 24 89 d8 e8 58
32 08 00 <01> 00 00 00 24 2c 0f 84 98 05 00 00 8b 5c 24 2c 8b 43 04 3d 00
Message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] at Mon Jan 29 23:34:09 2007 ...
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] EIP: [pg0+950247448/1069057024]
ath_attach+0x148/0x1530 [ath_pci] SS:ESP 0068:f412fd40
macbook kernel: [ 72.860000] [setup_irq+225/464] setup_irq+0xe1/0x1d0
** Affects: linux-restricted-modules-2.6.20 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Madwifi driver prevents MacBook from booting
https://launchpad.net/bugs/82238
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