Bug#485464: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64: Memory and file corruption after running for few days
On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Arno Griffioen wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64
> Severity: critical
> Justification: causes serious data loss
overflated as usual
> There seems to be a major memory/file corruption issue in 2.6.25.
>
> I have tried running it after my system had been running on 2.6.24-1-amd64
> for quite some time without any issues, but after a few days various
> programs would start to dump core spontaneously.
>
> Messages in the log showed this:
>
> Jun 1 17:03:42 deepthought kernel: [161459.115199] clamscan[17219]
> general protection ip:7ffa5ef9c058 sp:7fff67942cf0 error:0 in
> libc-2.7.so[7ffa5ef2d000+13e000]
> Jun 1 17:05:39 deepthought kernel: [161571.811295] clamscan[17224]
> general protection ip:7f6737a3117f sp:7fff3fed8320 error:0 in
> libclamav.so.4.0.1[7f6737a24000+8b000]
> Jun 1 17:10:49 deepthought kernel: [164336.907368] clamscan[17247]
> general protection ip:7f4f8b028c65 sp:7fff939cde00 error:0 in
> libc-2.7.so[7f4f8afb8000+13e000]
> Jun 1 17:18:20 deepthought kernel: [164783.967493] clamscan[17283]
> general protection ip:7fb8baf9a17f sp:7fffc3440890 error:0 in
> libclamav.so.4.0.1[7fb8baf8d000+8b000]
> Jun 1 17:23:07 deepthought kernel: [165067.957304] clamscan[17289]
> general protection ip:7f9fa51afb83 sp:7fffad64d3b0 error:0 in
> libclamav.so.4.0.1[7f9fa51a0000+8b000]
>
> I also noticed file and filesystem corruption starting to pop up in
> various places.
>
> Eg. an 'apt-get update' would generate a package file wth various parts
> corrupted.
>
> This is on a twin dual-core Xeon machine with 4Gb of RAM and using the
> AMD64 version.
>
> I also tried the 32-bit 2.6.25 version under a KVM virtual machine, but
> it also crashed after a few days of runing.
>
> Since switching back to 2.6.24 the system is stable once more and also
> the virtual machine in the KVM works fine with a 2.6.24.
>
> No other changes were made to the system. Just purge 2.6.25, reboot into
> 2.6.24 and it's OK.
try out latest 2.6.26-rc5 see trunk apt lines on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel
thanks for feedback.
--
maks
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