Bug#291464: kernel-source-2.6.10: Kernel Panic with SMP PIII as NFS Client under heavy NFS Load

[Stuart Sheldon <stu@actusa.net>]

Package: kernel-source-2.6.10
Version: 2.6.10-4
Severity: important



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-1-686-actusa
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages kernel-source-2.6.10 depends on:
ii  binutils                      2.15-5     The GNU assembler, linker and bina
ii  bzip2                         1.0.2-1    A high-quality block-sorting file 
ii  coreutils [fileutils]         5.2.1-2    The GNU core utilities

-- no debconf information
System kernel is installed on displays following message on screen:
Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempting to free lock with active block list 

References found in this thread from linux-kernel list:
http://seclists.org/lists/linux-kernel/2005/Jan/1198.html

This bug report is being generated from our main build machine, not system
that was kernel panic'ing. Thread was not clear if this was resolved with
the patch listed, but problem still exists in unpatched kernel-source-2.6.10-4.

Please advise if I can be of any assistance.

Stu Sheldon