Bug 66616
Summary: | Kernel panic in ext3 | ||
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Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Chris Lange <chris_lange> |
Component: | kernel | Assignee: | Stephen Tweedie <sct> |
Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 7.3 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | i686 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2002-08-13 09:47:38 UTC | Type: | --- |
Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Bug Depends On: | 67177 | ||
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Description
Chris Lange
2002-06-12 17:25:26 UTC
Kernel 2.4.18-4smp have you try the kernel 2.4.18-5smp? No, I have not tried the kernel 2.4.18-5smp. I have not been able to reproduce the panic under kernel 2.4.18-4smp. We've seen this internally, several times, but only on one system and never under normal testing stress loads. What happens is that one of the filesystem's data structures becomes corrupt in a very predictable manner: the filesystem seems to get marked as having quotas, but there is no quota operations vector in the superblock and the filesystem OOPSes when it tries to indirect through the quota vector. It happens in several different places, and we have seen it affect both ext3 and NFS filesystems so we have, as yet, no evidence to narrow it down to any one filesystem being at fault. It would really help if you could give us as much background information on your system as you can: what workloads it serves, whether it uses software raid and/or LVM, what filesystems and device drivers it is using actively. Thanks. I have had this on kernel 2.4.5 and it is reproducable by moving large files around the hard disk ie cdrom iso images. I have an Abit KR7A mb with an IBM deskstar 80gb ata 100 hdd. It makes no difference if I optimize with hdparm or not it will still happen. It does not happen with kernel 2.4.18-3 and I never saw as far as I can remember with 2.4.18-4, it does seem to be related to a kernel or other upgrade. Sometimes the system will be fine for 3 or 4 days sometimes it will happen frequently every few minutes. It does happen a lot when updatedb runs as a cron job. I have 896 mb ram and a 1.333gb amd athlon cpu. Video is NVidia, net card is intel eepro100, I have a wintv card initio scsi card with scsi cdwriter (HP 9200) ide cdrom. The NVidia is on its own irq as are both ide channels. We can't reproduce this any more internally with the 2.4.18-10 errata kernel. Please reopen if you still have a problem with this version. |