More problems with 2.0.18

Chris Adams (cadams@sh1.ro.com)
Wed, 11 Sep 1996 13:45:24 -0500 (CDT)

I mailed earlier about kernel 2.0.18 failing, with kswapd dieing off
(followed by many other processes). Well, 11 hours later, it happened
again with a little bit different message. This time, init was the
first to die, followed by just about everything else (it got to the
point where I couldn't unmount filesystems). Here is the message:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d289e0f4
current->tss.cr3 = 07fdd000, (r3 = 07fdd000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<0012176c>]
EFLAGS: 00010206
eax: 1289e0cc ebx: 00000000 ecx: 1289e0cc edx: 0289e000
esi: 0001aef5 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: 07ff6f7c
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process init (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=07ff6000)
Stack: 00000000 bfffffce bfffffce bffffd64 1289e0cc 00000000 00000000 40010000
1289e0cc 001218e6 00000000 00000000 07ff7018 0012190f 00000000 0010a432
bffffd78 00000000 00000002 bfffffce bfffffce bffffd64 ffffffda 0000002b
Call Trace: [<001218e6>] [<0012190f>] [<0010a432>]
Code: 39 58 28 75 d3 8b 48 18 89 4c 24 10 83 3c 9d b4 24 1b 00 00

Using `/System.map' to map addresses to symbols.

>>EIP: 12176c <sync_buffers+50/18c>
Trace: 1218e6 <fsync_dev+e/30>
Trace: 12190f <sys_sync+7/10>
Trace: 10a432 <system_call+52/80>

Code: 12176c <sync_buffers+50/18c> cmpl %ebx,0x28(%eax)
Code: 12176f <sync_buffers+53/18c> jne ffffffd8 <_EIP+ffffffd8>
Code: 121771 <sync_buffers+55/18c> movl 0x18(%eax),%ecx
Code: 121774 <sync_buffers+58/18c> movl %ecx,0x10(%esp,1)
Code: 121778 <sync_buffers+5c/18c> cmpl $0x0,0x1b24b4(,%ebx,4)

Also, intermixed with some of the messages was

Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list corrupted

Is there a different kernel that is more stable that I can use? Or is
it just not going to work?

-- 
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com - System Admin - Renaissance Internet Services
"So, if anybody wants to have hardware sent to them: don't call me, but
instead write your own unix operating system.  It has worked every time
for me." - Linus Torvalds, author of Linux (Unix-like) OS