[Bug 32070] Re: AMD 280 Kernel OOPS on Bootup (dapper Flight4 Live CD)

[Joe Kislo]

So, I can't get access to the Dual Core Dual CPU machine.  But if I boot
beta2 live dapper on a Dual CPU machine... Powernowd still loads, but
doesn't seem to be very happy.

If I try to stop it with
/etc/init.d/powerdnow stop

it won't die

If I try to kill it using 
kill 6057

I get this error on the console:
  316.415412] powernowd[6057]: segfault at 0000000000500000 rip 00002aaaaac2bc23 rsp 00007fffffb83700 error 4

I tried it again and got similar results:
[  352.372750] powernowd[7042]: segfault at 0000000000500000 rip 00002aaaaac2bc23 rsp 00007fffff83efa0 error 4

Not sure if that's terribly helpful.  It *did* appear to power down the
cpu a little according to /proc/cpuinfo.  I had been under the
assumption that opteron chips didn't have this ability.  But perhaps it
was just that the older live CDs never loaded powernowd on an opteron

-- 
AMD 280 Kernel OOPS on Bootup (dapper Flight4 Live CD)
https://launchpad.net/bugs/32070