Bug#284567: Unable to handle kernel paging request
Package: kernel
Severity: normal
The problem occured while running tar, causing it to segfault. It was reproducible until a reboot.
I am copying the info from syslog below. I did a search about this kind of problem and found many complaints about it, but no satisfactory explanation or resolution.
memtest86 found no memory problems.
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 1050f2a3
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: printing eip:
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: c013747d
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: *pde = 00000000
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[sys_lstat64+42/99] Not tainted
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: eax: 1050f26f ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: ce1139e0
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: esi: 401600e8 edi: bffffa10 ebp: bffff968 esp: ce6c5f9c
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: Process tar (pid: 3811, stackpage=ce6c5000)
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: Stack: ce1139e0 c12c6310 cc42f350 080ab840 00000005 00000008 00000001 c7f21240
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: ce6c4000 c01081fb 080ab840 bffffa10 4015d620 401600e8 bffffa10 bffff968
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: 000000c4 0000002b 0000002b 000000c4 400f7168 00000023 00000246 bffff904
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [system_call+51/56]
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel:
Dec 6 21:05:23 localhost kernel: Code: 83 78 34 00 74 07 52 ff 50 34 59 eb 02 31 c0 85 c0 89 c3 75
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-1-386
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
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