Bug#384717: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:274!
Subject: kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:274!
Package: kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686
Version: 2.4.27-10sarge3
Severity: normal
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Machine is a VIA C3 Nehemiah low-noise server with 256 MB of RAM and about 1G of swap space. All network services (including DHCP, Bind, Apache, Samba and SSHD) stopped responding shortly before 2100 local time, though this was not noticed by anyone until the following day. It was impossible to access the machine, so I reset it, after which I was able to log in as normal. /var/log/syslog contained an error report:
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:274!
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: EIP: 0010:[rmqueue+533/576] Not tainted
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: eax: 0100004c ebx: c10d71e0 ecx: 00001000 edx: 000047b4
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: esi: 0000cff0 edi: c1000020 ebp: c025edd8 esp: c1a43e8c
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: Process named (pid: 15099, stackpage=c1a43000)
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: Stack: c52be032 00000064 0004d2c0 00000292 00000000 c025edd8 c025edd8 c025ef8c
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: 00000001 c025ed00 c013670b c029e000 c1a42000 00000000 c01194db c1a43efc
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: c025edd8 c025ef88 00000000 000001f0 c87b2300 00000000 c3e12ae0 c1a43fa8
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: Call Trace: [__alloc_pages+107/640] [schedule+523/832] [__get_free_pages+28/32] [__pollwait+124/192] [pipe_poll+55/128]
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: [do_pollfd+149/160] [do_poll+237/256] [sys_poll+449/896] [system_call+51/56]
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel:
Aug 24 20:59:19 contin kernel: Code: 0f 0b 12 01 f0 a2 23 c0 8b 43 18 a8 80 74 08 0f 0b 14 01 f0
Aug 24 20:59:20 contin kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:274!
Aug 25 19:13:02 contin syslogd 1.4.1#17: restart.
I was unable to determine which process triggered the bug.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-3-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages kernel-image-2.4.27-3-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.81.1 tools to create initrd image for p
ii modutils 2.4.26-1.2 Linux module utilities
-- no debconf information
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