Re: PROBLEM: 2.2.13 sporadic crashes

Jim Woodward (jim@jim.southcom.com.au)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:37:54 +1100 (EST)


On Thu, 11 Nov 1999, Guy McArthur wrote:

> My PII / RH5.2 / kernel 2.2.13 box is experiencing sporadic crashes of an
> unknown origin.
>
> Average system uptime is about a day, they seem to occur about the time of
> the heaviest load (the system is heavily used for apache 1.3.6 + mod_php3
> and apache 1.3.9 +The Gimp+Perl). The kernel is a custom compile for SCSI
> support and IP Aliasing. I've followed RedHat's guide for package
> upgrading a 5.2 system to support the 2.2 kernel series, and all RH
> updates have been applied.
>
> Here is the syslog output of the latest
> series: [question: what text from this output do I pass to ksymoops?]
>
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f2e04ff0
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 07526000, %cr3 = 07526000
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: Oops: 0002
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: CPU: 0
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: EIP: 0010:[kmem_cache_free+197/368]
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: EFLAGS: 00010046
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: eax: f2e04fe0 ebx: c7fef680 ecx: c5da1fc0 edx: f2e04fe0
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: esi: c6991fc0 edi: 00000286 ebp: 0000003e esp: c7525c88
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: Process mingetty (pid: 19322, process nr: 20, stackpage=c7525000)
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: Stack: c08e0500 00001000 c01239b7 c5da1cfc c1150900 c011a0f1 c7fef680 c5da1cc0
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: c7523800 c7524000 c7525e68 c7524000 c5da1140 c012840e c08e0500 c7523800
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: c7525db4 c7525e68 c7524000 00000000 c0128535 c6dc50c0 c7525db4 c7525e68
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: Call Trace: [fput+23/72] [exit_mmap+205/268] [exec_mmap+58/264] [flush_old_exec+89/476] [load_elf_binary+1333/2908] [update_atime+93/100] [do_generic_file_read+1502/1516]
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: [search_binary_handler+59/288] [do_execve+391/492] [do_execve+425/492] [sys_execve+47/92] [system_call+52/56]
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: Code: 89 48 10 89 0b eb 9a 57 9d 53 56 68 4c c6 1d c0 e8 e2 fd ff
> Nov 11 16:32:56 cnc kernel: exit_mmap: map count is 7
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 1bc38144
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 074a7000, %cr3 = 074a7000
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: Oops: 0002
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: CPU: 0
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: EIP: 0010:[setup_arg_pages+96/268]
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: eax: c7fa38e0 ebx: c74a8000 ecx: c72c389c edx: 8e2c389c
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: esi: 1bc38144 edi: bffe0000 ebp: c74a9e68 esp: c74a9cdc
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: Process login (pid: 340, process nr: 22, stackpage=c74a9000)
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: Stack: 0001ff34 00000000 bfffff34 c0130bda 0001ff34 c74a9e68 c020758c fffffff8
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: c74a8000 c74a9e68 c74a9dc4 c38ac770 c035d700 c012f785 0001ff34 c011b006
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: c7fd9760 c2c62380 c2c62380 c2c62380 c74a9dc4 00000080 c76c4d7c 08049890
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: Call Trace: [load_elf_binary+1486/2908] [update_atime+93/100] [do_generic_file_read+1502/1516] [search_binary_handler+59/288] [do_execve+391/492] [do_execve+425/492] [sys_execve+47/92]
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: [system_call+52/56]
> Nov 11 16:34:06 cnc kernel: Code: 89 06 8b 4c 24 10 81 e1 00 f0 ff ff 89 4e 04 c7 46 08 00 00

I had a similar one the other day with 2.2.13 on my 486:

Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual ad
dress 245c8b53
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00f57000, %cr3 = 00f57000
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: *pde = 00000000
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: Oops: 0000
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: CPU: 0
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_buffer+38/80]
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: eax: 245c8b53 ebx: 000d6011 ecx: 00000304
edx:
245c8b53
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: esi: 00000400 edi: 000d6011 ebp: 00000304
esp:
c0fc7e78
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: Process slocate (pid: 1060, process nr: 46,
stackpag
e=c0fc7000)
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: Stack: c0124a87 00000304 000d6011 00000400
c0124d1e
00000304 000d6011 00000400
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: 000d6011 00000160 c0516550 00000000
c0454dd0
c012506a 00000304 000d6011
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: 00000400 c06e9d30 c013aedd 00000304
000d6011
00000400 c0516550 c020a210
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: Call Trace: [get_hash_table+23/48]
[getblk+30/336] [
bread+26/128] [ext2_read_inode+237/992] [get_new_inode+153/288]
[iget+92/112] [e
xt2_lookup+84/128]
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: [real_lookup+85/144]
[lookup_dentry+292/496]
[__namei+40/96] [sys_newlstat+14/96] [system_call+52/56]
[startup_32+43/286]
Nov 10 03:06:28 jim kernel: Code: 8b 00 39 5a 04 75 13 39 72 08 75 0e 66
39 4a 0
c 75 08 89 d0

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Weird stuff..

specific details of system:

Running Redhat 6.1 - all current updates. Kernel 2.2.13 release.

Specific hardware:

FreeTech 486 F38X board with a 486 DX2-80 on board. DLink ISA Network card (PCT-220) Adaptec AVA-1515 controlling a Seagate 4767N 767meg SCSI-2 harddisk. Winbond VLB based EIDE controller controllinga Quantum Bigfoot CY 4.3gig and a Philips 40X cdrom drive.

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my name   : Jim AJ Woodward 
my realm  : http://www.jim.southcom.com.au
my e-mail : jim@jim.southcom.com.au

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