Kernel panic on boot up due to USB modules in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
Issue
- Kernel panic on boot up due to USB modules in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
- When the system is booting up, a kernel panic occurs. This doesn't happen all the time but on a rough estimate with every 3 reboots, it happens once.
- Panic will be similar to:
Freeing unused kernel memory: 224k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 527k
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000000000001c RIP:
[ffffffff8024bc5b] netlink_set_err+0x6/0x94
PGD 0
Oops: 0000 [1] SMP
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7
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