Bug 463039

Summary: preload-0.4-6.fc9 made system unusable!
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Neal Becker <ndbecker2>
Component: preloadAssignee: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad>
Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Neal Becker 2008-09-21 01:12:23 UTC
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Today I updated preload.  After that, when rebooted, I could not login, even as root (just hung in mode 3).  (Noticed disk showing sporatic activity, but after choosing user name 'root', I was never prompted for 'password')

Had to boot into single user, yum remove preload, then it's OK again.

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Comment 1 Neal Becker 2008-09-21 01:14:59 UTC
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: preload invoked oom-killer: gfp_mask=0xd0, order=1, oomkilladj=0
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: Pid: 6209, comm: preload Tainted: P          2.6.26.3-29.fc9.x86_64 #1
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel:
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8107f901>] oom_kill_process+0x5d/0x1f8
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8106682f>] ? cpuset_mems_allowed_intersects+0x1c/0x1e
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8107fc5e>] ? badness+0x198/0x1db
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8107ff15>] out_of_memory+0x274/0x2af
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff81083328>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x38a/0x44a
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff810833f1>] __alloc_pages_nodemask+0x9/0xb
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8109ea48>] alloc_pages_current+0xb9/0xc2
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8108266e>] __get_free_pages+0xe/0x4d
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff810351f2>] copy_process+0xbb/0x1259
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8104cbf8>] ? hrtimer_start+0x11f/0x141
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff81031caa>] ? hrtick_set+0xa1/0xfc
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff81036482>] do_fork+0xf2/0x22d
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8100c291>] ? tracesys+0xd0/0xd5
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8100a5e9>] sys_clone+0x23/0x25
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel: [<ffffffff8100c477>] ptregscall_common+0x67/0xb0
Sep 20 20:27:42 nbecker1 kernel:

Comment 2 Carlos Eduardo Maiolino 2009-03-13 20:24:13 UTC
Hi, sorry but we didn't get to this report before now. 

If this is a reproducible issue, are you still experiencing it with the latest preload and kernel packages ? If yes, can you send updated information about the error ?

Thanks

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Comment 3 Neal Becker 2009-03-13 21:32:32 UTC
I must be crazy to try this experiment again :)

preload-0.6.3-1.fc10.x86_64
kernel-2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.x86_64

No prob so far, but where are messages logged?  I see nothing new in /var/log/preload.log

Comment 4 Adam Williamson 2009-03-17 21:37:04 UTC
I see you reported on f9 and are re-testing on f10...do you still have f9 installed? If not, we'll probably have to close this as the environment in which the bug happened just isn't around any more. Can you confirm? Thanks.

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Comment 5 Neal Becker 2009-03-17 23:30:53 UTC
No, I don't have F9.

Comment 6 Adam Williamson 2009-03-18 12:57:57 UTC
Then we'll have to close this, I'm afraid. But please do either re-open and update this report, or file another report, if you experience the issue again. Thanks!

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