Bug 26890

Summary:	Rpm crashes when it tries to install nmh.
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	s.langkemper
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	7.0	CC:	s.langkemper
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Hardware:	i586
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://www.devuurmuur.com/~sjoerd/bug.txt
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Last Closed:	2001-02-14 16:40:11 UTC	Type:	---
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Description s.langkemper 2001-02-09 22:30:17 UTC

I am running RedHat 7.0 and I tried to install (rpm -F n*.rpm) the nmh package from the RedHat Fisher beta CD-ROM. RPM crashes with "Unable to handle kernel paging request...".

You can view the error message on http://www.devuurmuur.com/~sjoerd/bug.txt, which shows a screendump.

Comment 1 Jeff Johnson 2001-02-13 18:44:59 UTC

This is a kernel problem, changing component.

Comment 2 Michael K. Johnson 2001-02-14 01:01:10 UTC

Text pasted from the URL cited above:

Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000012a8
 printing eip:
c0120c95
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c0120c95>]
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: c12906c4   ebx: c10012ec   ecx: 00000087   edx: 000012a8
esi: c10012ec   edi: c1001308   ebp: 0000013a   esp: c236fec8
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process rpm (pid: 3313, stackpage=c236f000)
Stack: c10406c4 c0127a86 c10012ec c0250f60 c02511f4 00000002 00000001 c012950a
       c0250f60 00000001 c02511f8 00000000 00000005 c012966f c02511ec 00000000
       00000002 00000001 00000001 c02511ec 00000000 c10ed200 00000000 fffffff4
Call Trace: [<c0127a86>] [<c012950a>] [<c012966f>] [<c0123e64>] [<c012e216>] [<c
0115e3a>] [<c0108ee3>]

Code: 89 02 8b 43 10 8b 53 34 c7 43 08 00 00 00 00 85 c0 74 03 89
Segmentation fault

Please run that trace through ksymoops on your machine and
report the output (the numbers are specific to the kernel you
are running).  So on your machine, running that kernel, do
cat /some/file/containing/that/trace | ksymoops
and then paste the output here.

Comment 3 s.langkemper 2001-02-14 16:40:02 UTC

ksymoops 2.3.4 on i586 2.4.0.  Options used
     -v /usr/src/linux/vmlinux (specified)
     -k /proc/ksyms (default)
     -l /proc/modules (default)
     -o /lib/modules/2.4.0/ (default)
     -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) c0120c95
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c0120c95>]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: c12906c4   ebx: c10012ec   ecx: 00000087   edx: 000012a8
esi: c10012ec   edi: c1001308   ebp: 0000013a   esp: c236fec8
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process rpm (pid: 3313, stackpage=c236f000)
Stack: c10406c4 c0127a86 c10012ec c0250f60 c02511f4 00000002 00000001 c012950a
       c0250f60 00000001 c02511f8 00000000 00000005 c012966f c02511ec 00000000
       00000002 00000001 00000001 c02511ec 00000000 c10ed200 00000000 fffffff4
Call Trace: [<c0127a86>] [<c012950a>] [<c012966f>] [<c0123e64>] [<c012e216>] [<c
0115e3a>] [<c0108ee3>]
Code: 89 02 8b 43 10 8b 53 34 c7 43 08 00 00 00 00 85 c0 74 03 89 >>EIP; c0120c95 <__remove_inode_page+35/70>   <=====
Trace; c0127a86 <reclaim_page+336/430>
Trace; c012950a <__alloc_pages_limit+7a/b0>
Trace; c012966f <__alloc_pages+12f/300>
Trace; c0123e64 <generic_file_write+294/480>
Trace; c012e216 <sys_write+96/d0>
Code;  c0120c95 <__remove_inode_page+35/70>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code;  c0120c95 <__remove_inode_page+35/70>   <=====
   0:   89 02                     mov    %eax,(%edx)   <=====
Code;  c0120c97 <__remove_inode_page+37/70>
   2:   8b 43 10                  mov    0x10(%ebx),%eax
Code;  c0120c9a <__remove_inode_page+3a/70>
   5:   8b 53 34                  mov    0x34(%ebx),%edx
Code;  c0120c9d <__remove_inode_page+3d/70>
   8:   c7 43 08 00 00 00 00      movl   $0x0,0x8(%ebx)
Code;  c0120ca4 <__remove_inode_page+44/70>
   f:   85 c0                     test   %eax,%eax
Code;  c0120ca6 <__remove_inode_page+46/70>
  11:   74 03                     je     16 <_EIP+0x16> c0120cab <__remove_inode_page+4b/70>
Code;  c0120ca8 <__remove_inode_page+48/70>
  13:   89 00                     mov    %eax,(%eax)

Comment 4 Michael K. Johnson 2001-02-14 17:18:11 UTC

Aha, you are running a 2.4.0 kernel.  I don't know which
one (rpm -q kernel?  uname -a?) but this looks like VM
problems that have been fixed in more recent kernels.