[7895] in testers
Re: Another crash scenario
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nelson Elhage)
Mon Mar 9 21:00:46 2009
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 20:59:57 -0400
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@MIT.EDU>
To: Michael R Morris-Pearce <mikemp@mit.edu>
Cc: testers@mit.edu
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This is mostly like the known bug, which is an AFS crash on
reboot. We're testing a patch to fix it from the AFS developers on a
machine in the SIPB office now.
- Nelson
On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 08:58:48PM -0400, Michael R Morris-Pearce wrote:
> This is different from Eric's crash on m66-080-2. I walked in and found
> m66-080-4 left in the following state:
>
> X was dead, although you could still change terminals.
> tty/1 displayed a trace and one particularly interesting line:
> "... BUG: ... kernel ... [page|paging] request ..."
>
> Any particular log file that it might have been backed up to? tty/1
> appeared to reset after visiting tty/n (for some n . 1 < n < 7), so I
> couldn't simply transcribe the error.
>
> I found the same bug last week on w20's new DebAthena when I changed to
> tty/1 immediately after logging out (before gdm had come back up with its
> prompt). jdreed or broder suggested on Wed (OLC meeting in N42) it might
> be a known bug.
>
> Is it?
>
> I'll try to grab more of the output next time I see it.
>
> - Michael
>
