Bug 46214

Summary:	kernel BUG at slab.c:1244!
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Raw Hide	Reporter:	Miroslav BENES <mbenes>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	1.0	CC:	pfrields
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Description Miroslav BENES 2001-06-27 12:43:16 UTC

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Description of problem:
I got this kernel (2.4.5-0.4) message after boot. 
Details :

kernel BUG at slab.c:1244!
invalid operand: 0000
CPU:    0
EIP:    0010:[<c012b3d4>]
EFLAGS: 00010082
eax: 0000001b  ebx: c188d768   ecx: 00000001   edx: 00002370
esi: dba5a000  edi: dba5a9aa   ebp: 00012800   esp: dc0fde2c
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process mingetty (pid: 1014, stackpage=dc0fd000)
Stack: c01d9d6f 000004dc dba5a000 00001000 dba5a9aa ...
Call Trace: [<c01618cd>] [<c0162545>] ...
Code: 0f 0b 58 8b 6b 10 5a 81 e5 00 04 00 00 74 4d b8 a5 c2 0f 17 




How reproducible:
Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
I'm often testing new packages from rawhide and after compiling this 
kernel (2.4.5-0.4) I seeems this message twice in 3 days (cca 5x reboot), 
always at end of booting.

This bug is not reproduceable.

Actual Results:  After this message was mgetty dead and I cannot login. I 
must use emergency magic sysrq for sync + reboot.

Expected Results:  IMHO patch into kernel source for repair cache 
management ?

Additional info:

Kernel is compiled with DEBUG option by gcc-g77-2.96-85 compiler, used was 
glibc-2.2.3-11 library. Optimalization for PIII. 

HW - Microstar6163Pro (chipset Intel 440BX), 512 MB RAM, P III 550.

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-06-27 13:25:44 UTC

Any special modules/drivers loaded ?
lsmod and lspci output would help here, if others report the same,
we can then find the "common" ones.....