kernel 2.4.5 problems
Hi All,
recently moved to debian woody and have to admit, really was
impressed with the installation etc.
Being keen on playing around with iptables and such, tried installing
kernel-2.4.5 image using dselect, didn't work, it would come up with
a message asking me to append "root=" in the boot options. tried
doing that using rdev and also root=/dev/hda1 in lilo - didn't work
so i gave up. downloaded the sources, compiled (after altering the
makefile to export the root= option), lilo, everything worked. Most
of the stuff works, but I have the following problem.
After running for a while the kernel crashes repeatedly. The machine
is usually not being used for anything except masquerading and it is
often not even being used for masquerading when it crashes. heres a
log entry at a crash point.
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: printing eip:
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c0125e24
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>]
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000002 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx:
00000003 edx: 82d66560
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: esi: c10cd2ec edi: 00000002 ebp:
0000001d esp: c5ff7fb8
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3,
stackpage=c5ff7000)
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Stack: c10cd308 c10cd2ec c01276fb
c10cd2ec c5ff6000 c020efd1 c5ff6239 0008e000
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c01279dc 00000006 00000000
00010f00 c11e5fb8 00000000 c0105644 00000000
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: 00000078 c026bfc4
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c01276fb>] [<c01279dc>]
[<c0105644>]
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel:
Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d
4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89
the above crash blames it on kswapd, but here another one
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: printing eip:
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: c0125e24
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>]
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000003 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx:
00000003 edx: 82d66560
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: esi: 00000088 edi: c4df5c44 ebp:
c11c3be8 esp: c2249ed8
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Process md5sum (pid: 14387,
stackpage=c2249000)
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Stack: 0000008b 00000088 c0125f3a
c10cd2ec c012107c c10cd2ec c101f150 c4df5c44
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b c012130a c1e3c4e0
00000092 c4df5ba0 c1018a40 00000092 c4df5c44
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b 0000001f 00000092
00000009 00000009 00000092 000000ac c012167d
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c0125f3a>] [<c012107c>]
[<c012130a>] [<c012167d>] [<c01218eb>] [<c0121820>] [<c012d6a6>]
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: [<c0106ce3>]
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel:
Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d
4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89
another process that i have seen crashed is fcheck.
The machine is left on overnight and when i get up in the morning, i
am greeted with something like referenced invalid pointer in virtual
memory with an address of .
If anyone has any tips on how to track this down, to whether it is
actually linux's fault somewhere or a hardware issue or something, it
would be greatly appreciated. The box was running redhat with
kernel-2.4.4 before without the kernel crashing.
again, any help greatly appreciated.
Shri
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