From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.9 Description of problem: Kernel panic occured overnight, probably at around 12am. Kernel oops output (see http://www.sgc.ox.ac.uk/aetherpanic.JPG ) suggests it was triggered by logwatch. The machine is fully up2date as of early last week. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.4.21-15.0.4.EL How reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Unclear Actual Results: Kernel panic Expected Results: No kernel panic Additional info: ncpfs is compiled as a kernel and was loaded. It was used to mount a remote Novell filesystem. The loopback device was in use mounting an ISO image.
Hello, Brian. The ncpfs module is unsupported, and it could be the source of the problem that later led to the oops in __free_pages_ok(). Could you please try to reproduce this problem without ncpfs? In the meantime, I'll assign this tentatively to someone familiar with our VM subsystem.
I suspect most of the new problems with ncpfs is because of SELinux. I had to switch it off on my machines running FC3. I got this: SELinux: initializedc(dev ncpfs, type ncpfs), not configured for labeling Also got a whole bunch of: ncpfs: Connection invalid!
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