From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686) Gecko/20030807 Galeon/1.3.5 Description of problem: After a few days of continues running, my system repeatedly crashed (kernel trace) in the past on the original Redhat-9.0 kernel. After upgrading to 2.4.20-18.7 the system run 100% stable (uptime > 100days). A few weeks ago I upgraded to 2.4.20-20.9 and my system starts crashing (kernel Oops) again after a week or so. ASUS MB A7S333 and 2 IDE disks (raid 1 & lvm). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. let the system run for a week 2. 3. Actual Results: kernel died (Oops) Expected Results: Continue life Additional info: Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000028 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: printing eip: Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: d0882d39 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: *pde = 00000000 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Oops: 0000 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: parport_pc lp parport nfsd lockd sunrpc iptable_filter ip_tables autofs sundance mii sr_mod cdrom st loop keybdev mousedev hid input usb-ohci usbcore ext3 jbd Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: CPU: 0 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: EIP: 0060:[<d0882d39>] Not tainted Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: EFLAGS: 00010217 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: EIP is at journal_try_to_free_buffers_Rfac97b04 [jbd] 0x29 (2.4.20-20.9) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c120f678 edx: cd56774c Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: esi: cd567734 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: cff5bee4 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=cff5b000) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Stack: cd567734 cff5bef8 00000296 00000282 cd56737c 00000001 c120f678 000001d0 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: 000001d0 00000001 d089447d c1ac6680 c120f678 000001d0 c0147382 c120f678 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: 000001d0 c120f694 c120f678 c013a080 c120f678 000001d0 00000001 000000c1 Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Call Trace: [<d089447d>] ext3_releasepage [ext3] 0x2d (0xcff5bf0c)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c0147382>] try_to_release_page [kernel] 0x52 (0xcff5bf1c)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c013a080>] launder_page [kernel] 0x550 (0xcff5bf30)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c013ae9c>] rebalance_dirty_zone [kernel] 0x5c (0xcff5bf50)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c013af7c>] rebalance_inactive_zone [kernel] 0x9c (0xcff5bf70)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c013afff>] rebalance_inactive [kernel] 0x3f (0xcff5bf90)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c013b141>] do_try_to_free_pages_kswapd [kernel] 0x51 (0xcff5bfb4))Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c013b3b3>] kswapd [kernel] 0x83 (0xcff5bfd4)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c013b330>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xcff5bfe4)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: [<c010727d>] kernel_thread_helper [kernel] 0x5 (0xcff5bff0)) Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Oct 11 04:03:20 corvatsch kernel: Code: 8b 5b 28 f6 40 19 04 75 26 39 f3 75 f1 f7 44 24 34 50 00 00
Sorry, NO kernel problem. The cause was a bad memory bank.