Bug 106778

Summary:	kernel BUG at dcache.c:350!
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Rick <shore_bell>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Arjan van de Ven <arjanv>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.0	CC:	riel
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Hardware:	i686
OS:	Linux
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Description Rick 2003-10-10 14:40:21 UTC

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Description of problem:
System stopped responding (although firewall/NAT still operational, but UI not
and could not SSH into system).

(from log):

Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: kernel BUG at dcache.c:350!
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: ide-cd cdrom es1371 gameport ac97_codec
soundcore parport_pc lp parport autofs ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_state
ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack_irc ip_con
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: CPU:    0
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c01572cf>]    Not tainted
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel:
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: EIP is at prune_dcache [kernel] 0x4f (2.4.20-20.8)
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: eax: 00000010   ebx: c4a68d98   ecx: c4a68000
  edx: c4a68e18
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: esi: c4a68d80   edi: c4a5bd80   ebp: 00000074
  esp: c1de9f98
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=c1de9000)
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: Stack: c1c92700 c4a68d00 c1de8000 000001d0
c1de8235 0008e000 c01576e4 00000614
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel:        c013913a 00000006 000001d0 00000000
c1de8000 00000000 c1de8235 c01393c3
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel:        000001d0 00000002 000001d0 00010f00
c40effa0 c0105000 c010741e 00000000
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: Call Trace:   [<c01576e4>]
shrink_dcache_memory [kernel] 0x24 (0xc1de9fb0))
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: [<c013913a>] do_try_to_free_pages_kswapd
[kernel] 0x1a (0xc1de9fb8))
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: [<c01393c3>] kswapd [kernel] 0x83 (0xc1de9fd4))
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0 (0xc1de9fec))
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: [<c010741e>] arch_kernel_thread [kernel] 0x2e
(0xc1de9ff0))
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: [<c0139340>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xc1de9ff8))
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel:
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel:
Oct 10 04:02:31 chocolate kernel: Code: 0f 0b 5e 01 1d d1 25 c0 8d 43 f8 8b 48
04 8b 53 f8 89 11 89


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.20-20.8

How reproducible:
Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Happened at night...

Additional info:

Comment 1 Dave Jones 2004-01-05 04:03:28 UTC

Try the 2.4.20-27 errata kernel, which fixes various problems. If that
doesn't work, you're out of luck, as RHL8 is EOL since Jan 1st.