Kernel panic after upgrade to kernel 5.2.21 (i386)

[Member Pieter]

I did a fresh install of antix-19_386-full on my 14 year old Acer Aspire 1684 laptop (32bit Pentium M 745, 2GB RAM, 120GB HDD, ATI Mobility Radeon 9700)

After the installation I upgaded the kernel to 4.19.83 and everything went fine.

I decided to upgrade the kernel further to 5.2.21, but during the installation process there were errors

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.2.21-antix.2-486-smp (i686)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/make.log for more information.
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.2.21-antix.2-486-smp (i686)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.61/build/make.log for more information.

And after a reboot very early during bootup it halted with a kernel panic.

I rebooted using the previous kernel and tried to install kernel 5.2.15. During the installation process there were the same errors as with 5.2.21

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.2.15-antix.1-486-smp (i686)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/broadcom-sta/6.30.223.271/build/make.log for more information.
Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 5.2.15-antix.1-486-smp (i686)
Consult /var/lib/dkms/ndiswrapper/1.61/build/make.log for more information.

But after a reboot kernel 5.2.15 booted without any errors…

I’m not a diehard linux user, so I am not sure what to make of the above. Is my hardware too old for kernel 5.2.21, or is this something else?

• This topic was modified 3 years, 5 months ago by Pieter.

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