[21232] in Athena Bugs
System crash on reboot, possible AFS problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Cavin)
Mon Dec 23 16:31:22 2002
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Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 16:31:20 -0500
From: Tom Cavin <cavin@MIT.EDU>
To: Athena Bugs list <bugs@MIT.EDU>, SIPB Linux Help <linux-help@MIT.EDU>
Hi,
I've seen this problem for a while on my Linux Athena ThinkPad (A21m), and
at first I thought it was hardware related. It may still be hardware
related, but I'm also getting reports of this happening on other Linux
Athena boxes including two Dell desktop systems.
The basic problem is that when the system reboots, it start to come up just
fine until it gets a kernel paging error. Whenever it has been up enough
to write the messages to /var/log/messages (or when I've looked at the junk
spewed out to the console), the stack trace indicates something in the AFS
code.
The solution is to either reboot or power-cycle the system until it gets
back on its feet.
Is anyone else is seeing this problem?
If they are, has anyone dug into the problem to determine a cause?
And if so, is there a solution?
If anyone is interested in digging into this, I can supply excerpts from
the messages files for at least a few of these events.
Thanks,
--Tom
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