kernel 1.2.13; 2 oopses in 15 min

Adam Goryachev (adamg@warp.ipacific.net.au)
Sat, 25 Jan 1997 16:08:31 +1100 (EST)


this is taken from the log files of a linux 1.2.13 kernel, its been up and running perfectly for over 18 months, (it has had
many reboots, I mean stably as in no oopses/crashes etc).

unfortunately I don't have the System.map for the running kernel, if it is at all possible to work out what might have gone
wrong to cause this oops, I'd greatly appreciate it....

The machine kept running after both hiccups, for an hour and a half but it crashed about with Out of memory errors....

It has since been up for a couple of days now...

kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ef696373
kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 02cce000, ^Hr3 = 02cce000
kernel: *pde = 00000000
kernel: Oops: 0002
kernel: EIP: 0010:00149f8d
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
kernel: eax: 2f696373 ebx: 001cb230 ecx: 02ccfdd0 edx: 028ba000
kernel: esi: 032163f4 edi: 032163f4 ebp: 02ccfe8c esp: 02ccfe00
kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
kernel: Process in.nnrpd (pid: 4999, process nr: 66, stackpage=02ccf000)
kernel: Stack: 03216380 032163f4 600a7368 0000000a 00000005 02ccfe1c 0008c700 642f0001
kernel: 6c2f7665 0000676f 00000005 02e2b85e 0001e6c0 0015ddc3 03804620 0015ddee
kernel: 03804620 03804620 00000000 02ccfec4 00000005 0015c26f 03804620 03804620
kernel: Call Trace: 0015ddc3 0015ddee 0015c26f 00126006 001585ca 0012f2dc 00132621
kernel: 0011edc7 00133d21 00134ce0 0011f338 00126b17 00126bfb 00133df3 0011edc7
kernel: 00135594 00110779
kernel: Code: ff 00 8b 94 24 00 01 00 00 8b 42 10 8b 72 14 8b 7e 10 89 b8
kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000000
kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 02635000, ^Hr3 = 02635000
kernel: *pde = 00102067
kernel: *pte = 00000027
kernel: Oops: 0000
kernel: EIP: 0010:001460c5
kernel: EFLAGS: 00010097
kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00b8ee7c ecx: 00000246 edx: 00000000
kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00b8edfc ebp: 02636e1c esp: 02636df0
kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
kernel: Process named (pid: 66, process nr: 13, stackpage=02636000)
kernel: Stack: 00b8edfc 00000005 ffffffff 0013a19e 00b8edfc 0013a0d8 00b8ef3c 00117704
kernel: 00b8edfc 00000001 001c7eb0 00000001 0011d43e 00000000 02636e40 00000005
kernel: 00000008 02636e84 001106fd 00000002 02054000 00000000 017f3000 00000005
kernel: Call Trace: 0013a19e 0013a0d8 00117704 0011d43e 001106fd 00116dd7 0013148d
kernel: 0013172c 00110779
kernel: Code: 8b 02 89 58 04 8b 02 89 87 80 00 00 00 c7 02 00 00 00 00 c7
kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler

here is what I get at bootup....

kernel: hda: QUANTUM SIROCCO2550A, 2445MB w/75KB Cache, LBA, CHS=4969/16/63, MaxMult=8
kernel: hdb: QUANTUM SIROCCO2550A, 2445MB w/75KB Cache, LBA, CHS=4969/16/63, MaxMult=8
kernel: ide0: primary interface on irq 14
kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
kernel: Configuring Adaptec at IO:334, IRQ 15, DMA priority 5
kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
kernel: scsi : 1 host.
kernel: Vendor: QUANTUM Model: XP34301 Rev: 1051
kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 1, lun 0
kernel: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-85058SQANXR1 Rev: 0781
kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi ta hda: QUANTUM SIROCCO2550A, 2445MB w/75KB Cache, LBA, CHS=4969/16/63, MaxMult=8
kernel: hdb: QUANTUM SIROCCO2550A, 2445MB w/75KB Cache, LBA, CHS=4969/16/63, MaxMult=8
kernel: ide0: primary interface on irq 14
kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
kernel: FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
kernel: Configuring Adaptec at IO:334, IRQ 15, DMA priority 5
kernel: scsi0 : Adaptec 1542
kernel: scsi : 1 host.
kernel: Vendor: QUANTUM Model: XP34301 Rev: 1051
kernel: Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, id 1, lun 0
kernel: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-85058SQANXR1 Rev: 0781
kernel: Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
kernel: Detected scsi tape st0 at scsi0, id 5, lun 0
kernel: scsi : detected 1 SCSI tape 1 SCSI disk total.
kernel: SCSI Hardware sector size is 512 bytes on device sda
kernel: Memory: 63960k/65536k available (672k kernel code, 384k reserved, 520k data)
kernel: This processor honours the WP bit even when in supervisor mode. Good.
kernel: Swansea University Computer Society NET3.019
kernel: Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.019
kernel: IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
kernel: PPP: version 0.2.7 (16 channels) NEW_TTY_DRIVERS OPTIMIZE_FLAGS
kernel: TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
kernel: PPP line discipline registered.
kernel: SLIP: version 0.8.3-NET3.019-NEWTTY (16 channels) (6 bit encapsulation enabled)
kernel: CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
kernel: eth0: 3c509 at 0x300 tag 1, BNC port, address 00 20 af dc 0b 89, IRQ 10.
kernel: 3c509.c:1.03 10/8/94 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
kernel: Checking 386/387 coupling... Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting.
kernel: Checking 'hlt' instruction... Ok.
kernel: Linux version 1.2.13 (root@warp) (gcc version 2.6.3) #24 Sun Jan 14 19:18:39 EST 1996
kernel: Partition check:
kernel: sda: sda1
kernel: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
kernel: hdb: hdb1 hdb2 hdb3
kernel: VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
kernel: Adding Swap: 65516k swap-space
kernel: Adding Swap: 65516k swap-space

any clues/ideas would be greatly appreciated....

Adam Goryachev
adamg@dot.net.au