Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.21-1.3255.fc7

[Chuck Ebbert]

On 07/07/2007 06:40 PM, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On 7/7/07, dragoran <drago01 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> updates at fedoraproject.org wrote:
>> >
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>>
>> > Fedora Test Update Notification
>> > FEDORA-2007-0926
>> > 2007-07-06 11:11:15.946017
>> >
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> >
>> > Name        : kernel
>> > Product     : Fedora 7
>> > Version     : 2.6.21
>> > Release     : 1.3255.fc7
> 
> My Dell Latitude D820 will not boot with this kernel unless I add the
> option hpet=disable.  Otherwise, the startup gets to the place where
> it says it found 2 CPUs and it lists out some iomem ports that are
> unavailable, and it stops.  The system is locked up then, I don't know
> of a way to save the output to show you. I do not think any entries
> are added in /var/log/messages, but as I dig into the messages file, I
> find lines that are similar to what is showing on the screen when the
> startup dies.
> 
> Jul  7 16:52:21 pols126 kernel: pnp: 00:0b: iomem range
> 0xfed00000-0xfed003ff could not be reserved
> Jul  7 16:52:21 pols126 kernel: pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0xcb0-0xcbb
> has been reserved
> Jul  7 16:52:21 pols126 kernel: pnp: 00:0d: iomem range
> 0xfed40000-0xfed44fff could not be reserved
> 
> On the good side, with hpet=disable, the system runs fine, and suspend
> to RAM works in both level 3 and 5 with the Nvidia video proprietary
> drivers and either iwl3945 or ipw3945.
> 
> So, again I say, what is this hpet pain in the ass all about?
> 

That's been reported but no idea what happened:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=247361

Please go there and post your hardware configuration.
Smolt profile if you've got it, otherwise just output
of 'lspci -vv' command.