Description of problem: I get a segmentation fault when I run: yum update or rpm Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): FC4 (no updates, fresh install How reproducible: Every time Steps to Reproduce: 1. run "yum update" or "rpm -qa" Actual results: segmentation fault Expected results: Should update the box Additional info: This is running on a Dell 6300, quad Xeon 550Mhz box, I booted with the single and smp kernel
Did you do an upgrade of the distribution through yum? . If so this is not a supported option.
No, this is a fresh install. I copied the files from the DVD to a http server, and did a network based install.
run a memory check on the machine.
I started the memtest86, I started with the one included, wich is V1.55, though I am currently running v3.2 that I downloaded from the web. If there is a reason to run the one that is inculded with FC4, I will. One more data point, I can run FC3 fine on this box, with know know issues.
so if you were to install FC3 right now it would run fine? Could you try that?
I have done both, I let the memtest86 test run for about 32 hr, no errors I have now instaled FC3, and have updated using yum. No problems. As a data point, I have 2 more 6300 dells, both with 4 processors, but they only have 1 GB of memeory insead of 3.5GB. I will post an update when I try the install on these boxes.
I have this same problem on my VIA EPIA 5000-based system with the VIA Eden processor. The hardware runs fine under FC3 but I have the segmentation fault when running rpm or yum under FC4.
I have tested this on three different Dell 6300, all with quad PIII Xeon 550Mhz processors. All boxes show same symptoms, though of course there is a twist. If I load a min system install(last selection in package list), the systems seems to run fine, and yum and rpm will work no problems. If I do a default install (Workstation), then rpm and yum both seg fault. Could someone post a list of rpm's that are installed via a workstation install, I'll diff this with what the Custome/min install, and then start installing the rpms.
I think this problem lies deeper than yum or rpm. Moving it up to kernel - see if it is there.
An update, I have two boxes loaded with fc4, both exhibiting the same problems. I have ran the memtest86 test for 48 hours again(still running on one box), no failures. I have noticed that things seemed to be getting worse the longer it runs.. I could run perl scripts before, now the seg fault as well. On a mim install, were yum worked right after install.. no longer works.. complains that it can't open logfile //var/log/yum.log When trying to manually read this file will less, I get the following error: /bin/bash: /usr/bin/lesspinpe.sh: Input/output error I can read other files fine with less As a side note, I could not run FC4test1 or test2, because of a kernel problem with the megaraid driver (I believe that was the problem...). you can refer to bugzilla # 152293 ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi? id=152293 )
is there a kernel oops or any other messages in dmesg after a segfault occurs ?
No, there are not kernal opps or other related messages that i can find in the log files, dmesg has no relevent message...
"It segfaults" is not enough information to possibly diagnose this problem, especially given that it seems not to be a widespread problem. I ran into this kind of problem in the past when there was subtle hardware problems. You can get more information by installing debuginfo and supplying gdb backtraces of when it crashes. If it crashes in different places in an unpredictable way, then it is most likely a hardware problem. If it crashes in the same place every time, then it is likely software. Also keep in mind that memtest86 v3.2 is *older* than memtest86+ v1.55.
After grabbing the rpm for gdb and the debuginfo rpms for rpm, glibc(i386), and glibc-common and then installing them with rpm2cpio and cpio, I ran rpm under gdb to install the sudo package update and received the following: [root@michigan packages]# gdb rpm GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.21rh) Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions. Type "show copying" to see the conditions. There is absolutely no warranty for GDB. Type "show warranty" for details. This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1". (gdb) run -Fvh sudo* Starting program: /bin/rpm -Fvh sudo* Reading symbols from shared object read from target memory...done. Loaded system supplied DSO at 0x2e6000 [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1208554688 (LWP 16506)] Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. [Switching to Thread -1208554688 (LWP 16506)] 0x00423afc in __statvfs_getflags (name=0x8efc418 "/", fstype=61267, st=0xbfb80b40) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c:115 warning: Source file is more recent than executable. 115 while ((opt = strsep (&cp, ",")) != NULL) (gdb) list - 105 /* Find out about the device the current entry is for. */ 106 struct stat64 fsst; 107 if (stat64 (mntbuf.mnt_dir, &fsst) >= 0 108 && st->st_dev == fsst.st_dev) 109 { 110 /* Bingo, we found the entry for the device FD is on. 111 Now interpret the option string. */ 112 char *cp = mntbuf.mnt_opts; 113 char *opt; 114 (gdb) print cp $1 = 0xbfb80685 "rw" (gdb) bt #0 0x00423afc in __statvfs_getflags (name=0x8efc418 "/", fstype=61267, st=0xbfb80b40) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c:115 #1 0x00424015 in __internal_statvfs64 (name=0x8efc418 "/", buf=0xbfb80c98, fsbuf=0xbfb80ba0, st=0xbfb80b40) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/internal_statvfs.c:211 #2 0x0041dec7 in __statvfs64 (file=0x8efc418 "/", buf=0xbfb80c98) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/statvfs64.c:68 #3 0x0087165c in rpmtsInitDSI (ts=0x8ef01e8) at rpmts.c:1241 #4 0x008770f2 in rpmtsRun (ts=0x8ef01e8, okProbs=0x0, ignoreSet=3216508549) at transaction.c:1474 #5 0x00865b66 in rpmInstall (ts=0x8ef01e8, ia=0x89c4e0, fileArgv=0x8ed9c70) at rpminstall.c:691 #6 0x0804bb83 in main (argc=3, argv=0xbfb81284) at ./rpmqv.c:786 #7 0x00380dfb in __libc_start_main (main=0x804aa9c <main>, argc=3, ubp_av=0xbfb81284, init=0x8057b04 <__libc_csu_init>, fini=0x8057b54 <__libc_csu_fini>, rtld_fini=0x35ccd0 <_dl_fini>, stack_end=0xbfb8127c) at ../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:228 #8 0x0804a9a1 in _start () (gdb) I don't have time to poke around with this at the moment, but will be back to debugging it later today. Let me know if anyone has suggestions.
I'm not experianced with gdb, or debugging at this level for that matter... thoguh I'm willing to do anything that is requested of me. I currently have fc4 installed as a server with min packages selected during install, I have now added gdb. With this type of install, the onlything that is currently failling is perl.. though I have not done a lot of digging with this install yet. yum and rpm seem to work fine. On the same box, if I reinstall, and select a Workstation type of install... then the rpm and yum result in segmentation faults as well. In ether case, there is no message in /var/log/messages or dmesg. If you can give spicific commands for me to run, and what install type you want.. I will get the resualts that you are looking for. If someone on the CC list would like access to this box, I can make that happen as well. Just contact me outside of bugzilla.
Mark does it crash at the same place every time?
Here is the output of: strace -o output.txt perl execve("/usr/bin/perl", ["perl"], [/* 21 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x81c7000 access("/etc/ld.so.preload", R_OK) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libperl.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libperl.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libperl.so", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240W5\000"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1349760, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f86000 old_mmap(0x334000, 1359360, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x334000 old_mmap(0x473000, 45056, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x13e000) = 0x473000 old_mmap(0x47e000, 7680, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x47e000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=45886, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 45886, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0xb7f7a000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libresolv.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\320S\21"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=76248, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x113000, 75880, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x113000 old_mmap(0x122000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xe000) = 0x122000 old_mmap(0x124000, 6248, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x124000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libnsl.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0p5+\003"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=96960, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x32b0000, 88064, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x32b0000 old_mmap(0x32c2000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x11000) = 0x32c2000 old_mmap(0x32c4000, 6144, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x32c4000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\0\374o"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=16244, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x6ff000, 12404, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x6ff000 old_mmap(0x701000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x701000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20\303"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=196676, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x6d9000, 143520, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x6d9000 old_mmap(0x6fb000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x21000) = 0x6fb000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libcrypt.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\207"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=27660, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x32c8000, 184604, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x32c8000 old_mmap(0x32cd000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x4000) = 0x32cd000 old_mmap(0x32cf000, 155932, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x32cf000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libutil.so.1", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\354"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=15080, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f79000 old_mmap(0x32e000, 12432, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x32e000 old_mmap(0x330000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x1000) = 0x330000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\204\367"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=101600, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x95b000, 70084, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x95b000 old_mmap(0x969000, 8192, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0xd000) = 0x969000 old_mmap(0x96b000, 4548, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x96b000 close(3) = 0 open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/tls/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/i686/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\n\37\\"..., 512) = 512 fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1489572, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(0x5ad000, 1219548, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0) = 0x5ad000 old_mmap(0x6d1000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_DENYWRITE, 3, 0x124000) = 0x6d1000 old_mmap(0x6d5000, 7132, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x6d5000 close(3) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f78000 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0xb7f77000 set_thread_area({entry_number:-1 -> 6, base_addr:0xb7f78ba0, limit:1048575, seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, seg_not_present:0, useable:1}) = 0 mprotect(0x122000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x32c2000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x701000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x6fb000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x32cd000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x330000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x969000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x6d1000, 8192, PROT_READ) = 0 mprotect(0x5a9000, 4096, PROT_READ) = 0 munmap(0xb7f7a000, 45886) = 0 set_tid_address(0xb7f78be8) = 4936 rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x95f340, [], SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x95f3a8, [], SA_RESTART|SA_SIGINFO}, NULL, 8) = 0 rt_sigprocmask(SIG_UNBLOCK, [RTMIN RT_1], NULL, 8) = 0 getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, {rlim_cur=10240*1024, rlim_max=RLIM_INFINITY}) = 0 _sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION}, 2, 0xbfe84180, 34, (nil), 0}) = 0 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) --- +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++ And the out put of: ldd /usr/bin/perl linux-gate.so.1 => (0x0027e000) libperl.so => /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.6/i386-linux-thread-multi/CORE/libperl.so (0x00334000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x00113000) libnsl.so.1 => /lib/libnsl.so.1 (0x032b0000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x006ff000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x006d9000) libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x032c8000) libutil.so.1 => /lib/libutil.so.1 (0x0032e000) libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x0095b000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x005ad000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x0058f000)
Over the weekend, while looking at the sytem, I did notice the following error messgae that I must have missed before in the dmesg output: mtrr: Intel 450NX MMC detected. Write-combining disabled. mtrr: your processor doen't support wirte-combining mtrr: Intel 450NX MMC detected. Write-combining disabled. mtrr: your processor doen't support wirte-combining
the mtrr message is nothing to worry about, its just complaining about a particular defect on that chipset that means we can't use write-combining. reiterating comment #16 - do things crash in the same place every time ?
sorry, didn't reply to that one. I thought you wanted info from Mark. To answer your question yes.. kind of.. it depends on what type of install I do. I currently have a "Server" style install with "min" package selection, and it crashes every time I try to run perl. If I have it installed as "Workstation" with the default packages, it crashes every time I try to run yum, rpm and perl. To address an earlier comment about the memtest86 3.6 test I ran.. I have now ran the memtest86+ 1.6 ver for 24hrs, no issues.(only on 1 of the three boxes)
some things to try.. boot with exec-shield=0 if that makes no difference, also try vdso=0 also try echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
I tried both boot options, independently and together It still crahes I also tried the echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space It also, still crahes I did verify that randomize_va_space was set to 0 after I ran the above command, it was set to 1 before.
[This comment has been added as a mass update for all FC4 kernel bugs. If you have migrated this bug from an FC3 bug today, ignore this comment.] Please retest your problem with todays 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 update. If your problem involved being unable to boot, or some hardware not being detected correctly, please make sure your /etc/modprobe.conf is correct *BEFORE* installing any kernel updates. If in doubt, you can recreate this file using.. mv /etc/sysconfig/hwconf /etc/sysconfig/hwconf.bak mv /etc/modprobe.conf /etc/modprobe.conf.bak kudzu Thank you.
This has been duplicated on 2.6.12-1.1398_FC4
Is there anything else I can provied to help troble shoot this issue ? I can provied access to my box if needed. Scott
Mass update to all FC4 bugs: An update has been released (2.6.13-1.1526_FC4) which rebases to a new upstream kernel (2.6.13.2). As there were ~3500 changes upstream between this and the previous kernel, it's possible your bug has been fixed already. Please retest with this update, and update this bug if necessary. Thanks.
2.6.14-1.1637_FC4 has been released as an update for FC4. Please retest with this update, as a large amount of code has been changed in this release, which may have fixed your problem. Thank you.
This is a mass-update to all currently open kernel bugs. A new kernel update has been released (Version: 2.6.15-1.1830_FC4) based upon a new upstream kernel release. Please retest against this new kernel, as a large number of patches go into each upstream release, possibly including changes that may address this problem. This bug has been placed in NEEDINFO_REPORTER state. Due to the large volume of inactive bugs in bugzilla, if this bug is still in this state in two weeks time, it will be closed. Should this bug still be relevant after this period, the reporter can reopen the bug at any time. Any other users on the Cc: list of this bug can request that the bug be reopened by adding a comment to the bug. If this bug is a problem preventing you from installing the release this version is filed against, please see bug 169613. Thank you.
Closing per previous comment.