From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040922 Description of problem: Quad processor AMD64 server 16GB memory ~8GB (1/2 of remaining memory) tmpfs filesystem mounted on /tmp -Normal user copied an approximately 30MB directory hierarchy into /tmp. cd /tmp ls /home/foouser/foodir file file dir dir file dir etc. cp -rpd /home/foouser/foodir/ . rm -rf foodir *panic* after reboot, repeatable. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-smp-2.6.9-11.EL How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.cd /tmp 2.cp -rpd <directory_path>/foo/ . 3.rm -rf foo 4.profi^H^H^H^Hanic Actual Results: kernel panic Expected Results: directories/files deleted, no kernel panic Additional info:
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 158956 ***
Hi Brandon, we've commited a fix to the u2 update stream. Could you please verify that it fixes the panic. The kernel is at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ thanks, -Jason
(In reply to comment #2) > Hi Brandon, > > we've commited a fix to the u2 update stream. Could you please verify that it > fixes the panic. The kernel is at: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ > > thanks, > > -Jason Jason, It works. I am no longer able to reproduce the kernel panic. We have re-created our operational tmpfs filesystem and it will get some thorough usage...so I'll let you know if we run into any problems <smirk> Thank you for your excellent help. -brandon
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2005-514.html