Kernel panic: scsi_free: Bad offset

Andy Norman (andy@focus.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 30 May 1996 12:09:07 +0100

I keep getting (every couple of days) this kernel panic on one of my servers:

Kernel panic: scsi_free: Bad offset
In swapper task - not syncing.

I am using 1.3.72 at the moment, when I first installed the machine it ran
for 55 days without incident, now it doesn't seem happy. Is this a problem
that would go away if I used a newer kernel, or do I have something more
fundamentally wrong ?

System:

PCIset Pentium 75
16 Mb RAM, 32 Mb swap
Adaptec 2940
Fujitsu 1Gb SCSI II hd (no other SCSI devices)

Running:

1.3.72 (on a Slackware 3.0 base)
netatalk 1.3.3 (it's sole purpose at the moment)

Andy Norman Datamonitor Group IT Co-ordinator
A.Norman@datamonitor.com andy@focus.demon.co.uk
http://www.datamonitor.com
Tel: 0171 625 8548
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