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Re: kernel Oops on Linux 9.4.9
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kevin Chen)
Sun Jun 19 00:06:30 2005
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Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 00:06:16 -0400
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Kevin Chen wrote:
> The kernel oops happened to me again a few minutes ago, so I believe the
> ssh problem is unrelated. Unfortunately, another window was covering the
> top window, so I was unable again to see what was causing the load to
> spike.
And here's the /var/log/messages log, which looks mostly the same
(though I wouldn't know what to look for, so am sending it in case the
differences are useful):
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 0000001a
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: printing eip:
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: c01bf732
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: Modules linked in: smbfs nvidia(U) md5
ipv6 nfsd exportfs lockd libafs(U) i2c_dev i2c_core sunrpc vfat fat
nls_utf8 ntfs(U) dm_mod button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd hw_random
snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virmidi snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_midi_emul snd_seq snd_emu10k1 snd_rawmidi snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec
snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_hwdep snd soundcore 8139too mii floppy
ext3 jbd sd_mod scsi_mod
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: CPU: 0
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c01bf732>] Tainted: PF
VLI
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.9-5.EL)
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: EIP is at
inode_doinit_with_dentry+0x26/0x63f
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: f601c000 ecx:
f2a44198 edx: f2a44198
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: esi: f2a44198 edi: f2a44198 ebp:
f94d7680 esp: c5600e60
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: Process owl-beta (pid: 22698,
threadinfo=c5600000 task=c5608d50)
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000000 00000000
f601c000 00008180 f601c000 f2a44198 c5600ea4
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: f94d7680 c017ca68 00000000
f2a44198 f94af22b f2a4421c f60c0000 f601b400
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: f601c000 00008000 01dfd420
00000000 0000efec 00001000 00000000 000081a4
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: Call Trace:
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c017ca68>] d_instantiate+0x12e/0x131
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<f94af22b>]
afs_linux_create+0x1ff/0x2d5 [libafs]
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c0172887>] vfs_create+0xb8/0xef
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c0172c58>] open_namei+0x181/0x57e
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c0161412>] filp_open+0x23/0x3c
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c03003b2>] __cond_resched+0x14/0x3b
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c01d8e46>]
direct_strncpy_from_user+0x3e/0x5d
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c01618e9>] sys_open+0x31/0x7d
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c0301bfb>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: [<c030007b>]
interruptible_sleep_on_timeout+0x91/0x1da
Jun 18 23:44:23 scyther kernel: Code: 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 57 89 d7 56 53
83 ec 14 89 44 24 0c 8b 80 ac 01 00 00 c7 44 24 04 00 00 00 00 c7 04 24
00 00 00 00 89 44 24 08 <80> 78 1a 00 0f 85 85 04 00 00 89 c3 31 c9 ba
6b 00 00 00 b8 a4
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Kevin Chen
http://www.sneswhiz.com/
