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Message-ID: <1906048706.3314028.1769112640889@mail.yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:10:40 +0000 (UTC)
From: George R Goffe <grgoffe@...oo.com>
To: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
Cc: "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Bug found in linux-6.19-rc5.

Dr. Dave,

That was the last line in the journal. NOTHING after that... the system was frozen though.

The Fedora folks have released a "new" kernel; 6.19.0-0.rc6.260121g6c790212c588f.44.fc44.x86_64

It's installed now. It is my intent to try to repeat the crash. I call it a crash but it doesn't look like any of the crashes I've seen. Just a blinking light on the caps-lock key... no other indications. Very strange. I looked on the web for "linux vivobook s16 blinking caps-lock'. I'm not sure what to make of the search results. The results seem to "think" it could be a hardware problem but the machine was new in May 2025. 

I've had Fedora 42 installed up to about a month ago. FC42 crashed and burned... due to self-inflicted wounds. I tried to reinstall from the original DVD but got FC44.

I will let you know what happens when this latest batch of upgrades (nearly 6500 upgrades) is installed.

THANKS for your response and willingness to help,

Best regards,

George...

On Thursday, January 22, 2026 at 09:48:10 AM PST, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <linux@...blig.org> wrote: 

* George R Goffe (grgoffe@...oo.com) wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm having some trouble finding the Maintainer and the appropriate mailing list for this bug. This is probably my first kernel bug report.
> 
> Out of desperation, I filed a bug report on Fedora 44 at bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2430550
> 
> Here;s the message I'm seeing:
> 
> Jan 16 09:14:26 kernel: kernel BUG at kernel/irq_work.c:245!

Do you have anything after that?  On a good day there should be
a bit of a backtrace below it which might help people figure out what
triggered it.

Dave

> 
> I have tried to build the rc6 kernel but am having trouble buiilding it. There seems to be a problem with the binutils package that halts the build. I cloned the binutils repo but bin utils doesn't want to build either. I have two gcc versions on this build system. Both builds fail in the SAME way... the same indication. Sigh...
> 
> Can you help me please?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> George...
> 
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