Re: ls,apt,find: segmentation fault
In article <[🔎] 20050407075009.GC24664@spl09.esst.kyushu-u.ac.jp>,
Victor Munoz <vmunoz@macul.ciencias.uchile.cl> wrote:
>I have a woody server I've accessed remotely without much problem during a
>couple of years. Last time was yesterday. Today, however, an rsync
>gave me the following error:
>
>rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (8 bytes read so far)
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)
>
>I can ping or ssh it, no problem, though ocassionally ssh logs me in, and
>closes my session immeadiately. Some commands (top, ps) hang my prompt,
>and others (apt-get, apt-cache) return a segmentation fault. Other behave
>not consistently: ls -ltr does not sort files as expected, ls in my home dir
>gives no problem, but ls /etc/apt gives a segmentation fault.
>
>Any help trying to diagnose the problem is welcome. I feel I will have to
>reinstall from scratch, but I would like to understand.
>
>Entries in wtmp only show logins by myself, though I see in /var/log/syslog
>messages like 'Unable to handle kernel paging request', as this:
>
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel: Process ls (pid: 7578, stackpage=c1325000)
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel: Stack: c1325f74 00000000 c1325fa4
>c0e6fc10 c1115468 c32c8000 2a6885a6 0000000c
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel: c0138322 c0c33820 c1325f74
>c1325f74 c0138987 c0c33820 c1325f74 00000000
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel: c32c8000 00000000 c1325fa4
>00000008 c013813e 00000008 c32c800c 00000000
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel: Call Trace: [cached_lookup+14/80]
>[link_path_walk+1167/1720] [getname+94/156] [path_walk+26/28]
>[__user_walk+53/80]
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel: [sys_lstat64+25/112]
>[sys_brk+201/208] [system_call+51/56]
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel:
>Apr 7 02:21:50 aristoteles kernel: Code: 8b 6d 00 8b 54 24 18 39 53 44 75
>74 8b 44 24 24 39 43 0c 75
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging
>request at virtual address 3120360a
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: printing eip:
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: c0140518
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: *pde = 00000000
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: Oops: 0000
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: CPU: 0
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: EIP: 0010:[d_lookup+92/244] Not
>tainted
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: EFLAGS: 00010203
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: eax: c1115468 ebx: 312035fa ecx:
>0000000d edx: 2a6885a6
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c1325fa4 ebp:
>3120360a esp: c1325f14
>Apr 7 02:21:53 aristoteles kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
>
>Could it be the cause or a symptom?
>
>Any help appreciated. Regards,
Most of the time I've seen this kind of oopsen and panic it means
that there's a problem with the hardware - bad RAM, broken CPU fan,
motherboard broken, that kind of stuff.
Mike.
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