Bug#281372: kernel-source-2.4.27: Crash on Dell PE 8450
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 01:07:02PM +0000, Ronny Adsetts wrote:
> Package: kernel-source-2.4.27
> Version: 2.4.27-5
> Severity: important
>
> This is using a kernel compiled using the config from
> kernel-image-2.4.27-1-686-smp for woody with the required tools backported.
>
> I'm fairly confident that this is a kernel issue rather than an issue
> with the backported tools otherwise I wouldn't be reporting it via the
> debian BTS.
>
> I'm currently running 2.4.26 compiled in the same way which crashes
> roughly about every 40 days or so. Built this latest 2.4 kernel to see
> if it helps any. The kernel lasted about 6 hours before bailing. I have
> an oops but can only run ksymoops while booted in 2.4.26 at the moment.
>
> I can do limited testing provided I have time to schedule it as the
> machine is in production.
>
> The important bits about this system as far as I can make out are that
> it's made to work quite hard doing backups. XFS on LVM on hardware RAID
> (Mylex extremeraid 3000 - DAC960 driver). We snapshot the LVM partitions
> before dumping to backup using xfsdump. xfs_freeze is used to quiesce
> the partitions before snapshotting. A couple of the partitions are
> exported using NFS.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give.
Are there oops messages or any indication of which code is failing
and if it is consistently the same code?
--
Horms
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