From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050302 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.2 Description of problem: Machine runs for a few days, then crashes (seemingly at random, but probably not) with this kernel panic. Machine is pingable, but nothing is running. All services stop! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Steps to Reproduce: 1. unkown 2. 3. Actual Results: CRASH! BOOM! Expected Results: Stable Systems Additional info: [<c01788b0>] prune_dcache+0xcf/0x4d2 [<c01795dc>] shrink_dcache_memory+0x18/0x2f [<c014a16d>] shrink_slab+0xf7/0x149 [<c014ba86>] balance_pgdat+0x1b2/0x2d9 [<c014bc66>] kswapd+0xb9/0xbb [<c0133328>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [<c0133328>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d [<c014bbad>] kswapd+0x0/0xbb [<c01011dd>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Kernel panic - not syncing: fs/dcache.c:407: spin_is_locked on uninitialized spinlock d562cf0c
*** Bug 160637 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
An update has been released for Fedora Core 3 (kernel-2.6.12-1.1372_FC3) which may contain a fix for your problem. Please update to this new kernel, and report whether or not it fixes your problem. If you have updated to Fedora Core 4 since this bug was opened, and the problem still occurs with the latest updates for that release, please change the version field of this bug to 'fc4'. Thank you.
After the crashes at the beginning of june, I updated the kernel to the one of Fedora 4 and the computer is running fine since then (+/- 1 month without a single crash). I will install the new Fedora 3 kernel to test it. Best Regards Christophe
As they are both based off of 2.6.12.1, I'm fairly confident this is fixed in FC3 too. If it reoccurs, please reopen.