From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266820AbUG1LU1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:20:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266839AbUG1LU1 (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:20:27 -0400 Received: from out003pub.verizon.net ([206.46.170.103]:1486 "EHLO out003.verizon.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266820AbUG1LUX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:20:23 -0400 From: Gene Heskett Reply-To: gene.heskett@verizon.net Organization: Organization: None, detectable by casual observers To: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk Subject: Re: 2.6.8-rc2 crashes Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 07:20:21 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.6.82 References: <200407271233.04205.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <200407271315.22075.gene.heskett@verizon.net> <20040727192615.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20040727192615.GG12308@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200407280720.21518.gene.heskett@verizon.net> X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out003.verizon.net from [141.153.76.84] at Wed, 28 Jul 2004 06:20:22 -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Greetings; I just had another crash/lockup, running 2.6.8-rc2-bk3 At the instant, I was looking thru the menu's of the new kde3.3-beta2, in the window decoration, themes etc menu, where it got 14% loaded in a 60 megabyte file and it went away. >>From the log (the whole Oops section this time): Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: printing eip: Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: c0164136 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: *pde = 3ce74067 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1] Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: PREEMPT Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: Modules linked in: eeprom snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_bt87x snd_intel8 x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd forcedeth sg Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: CPU: 0 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: EFLAGS: 00010216 (2.6.8-rc2-bk3-nf2) Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: EIP is at prune_dcache+0x36/0x1c0 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: eax: c0364638 ebx: 00000080 ecx: e85fe134 edx: 00000000 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c198b000 ebp: 00000080 esp: c198bef8 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: Process kswapd0 (pid: 66, threadinfo=c198b000 task=c1978050) Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: Stack: c198bef8 c198bef8 00000080 00000000 c198b000 f7ffea60 c01646df 00000080 Jul 28 06:48:50 coyote kernel: c013a9ab 00000080 000000d0 0001f03f 021edf00 00000000 00000118 00000000 Jul 28 06:48:51 coyote kernel: c0363624 00000001 00000007 c0363500 c013bd51 00000020 000000d0 00000000 Jul 28 06:48:51 coyote kernel: Call Trace: Jul 28 06:48:51 coyote kernel: [] shrink_dcache_memory+0x1f/0x50 Jul 28 06:48:51 coyote kernel: [] shrink_slab+0x14b/0x190 Jul 28 06:48:51 coyote kernel: [] balance_pgdat+0x1b1/0x200 Jul 28 06:48:51 coyote kernel: [] kswapd+0xc7/0xe0 Jul 28 06:48:51 coyote kernel: [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] kswapd+0x0/0xe0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x14 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: Code: 89 02 89 49 04 89 09 a1 3c 46 36 c0 0f 18 00 90 ff 0d 44 46 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: <6>note: kswapd0[66] exited with preempt_count 1 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] schedule+0x47c/0x490 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] ext3_ordered_writepage+0x10e/0x1c0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] __pagevec_release+0x28/0x40 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] mpage_writepages+0x1b1/0x350 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] ext3_ordered_writepage+0x0/0x1c0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] do_writepages+0x44/0x50 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] __sync_single_inode+0x71/0x210 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] ext3_put_inode+0x13/0x30 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] sync_sb_inodes+0x16e/0x290 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] sync_inodes_sb+0x7e/0xa0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] sync_inodes+0x2b/0xa0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] do_sync+0x44/0x80 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] sys_sync+0xf/0x20 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] panic+0xff/0x110 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] do_exit+0x3ff/0x420 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] do_page_fault+0x0/0x519 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] die+0xf8/0x100 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] do_page_fault+0x1db/0x519 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] do_IRQ+0x102/0x1a0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] schedule+0x28e/0x490 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] do_page_fault+0x0/0x519 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] error_code+0x2d/0x38 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] select_parent+0x56/0xb0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] shrink_dcache_parent+0x10/0x30 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] proc_pid_flush+0x17/0x30 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] release_task+0x13d/0x1e0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] wait_task_zombie+0x15b/0x1c0 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] sys_wait4+0x213/0x260 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Jul 28 06:48:52 coyote kernel: [] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Jul 28 11:00:39 coyote syslogd 1.4.1: restart. -------------- Note restart time, but my script worked, the system time is now properly set later in the bootup. Nice. Ok, so which direction do I go, bk2, or bk4, for the next test? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.23% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.