From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12smp i686; Nav) Description of problem: (first bugzilla submission bare with me) Clean install of Red Hat Linux 7.1. Upgraded all rpms in 7.1 Errata section including kernel 2.4.3-12smp. Problem occured after upgrade of SysVinit-2.78-17.i386.rpm. Running updatedb would seg fault followed by kernel Oops in my log files each time. Rebooting was only solution which didn't cleanly unmount the drives so cold reboot was necessary. How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00255fd4 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: printing eip: Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: c014008c Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: pgd entry e5716000: 0000000000000000 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: pmd entry e5716000: 0000000000000000 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: ... pmd not present! Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Oops: 0000 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: EIP: 0010:[sys_lstat64+44/112] Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c014008c>] Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: eax: 00255fa0 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c2521df8 edx: ddf7ed40 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: esi: 08057fc8 edi: 00000003 ebp: bffff668 esp: ccd61f9c Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Process updatedb (pid: 7509, stackpage=ccd61000) Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Stack: ddf7ed40 c26833e0 08059000 00000b58 fffffff2 00000008 00000001 00000005 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: ccd60000 c0106f3b 08057fbc bffff5f0 401599e4 08057fc8 00000003 bffff668 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: 000000c4 c010002b 0000002b 000000c4 40107e53 00000023 00000202 bffff5e0 Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Call Trace: [system_call+51/56] [startup_32+43/203] Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Call Trace: [<c0106f3b>] [<c010002b>] Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Jun 27 02:59:53 maya kernel: Code: 8b 40 34 85 c0 74 0d 52 ff d0 5a 89 c3 eb 07 90 8d 74 26 00
Created attachment 21906 [details] kernel Oops log from updatedb after sysvinit upgrade
assigning to kernel.
To be clear: so 2.4.2-2 worked fine. Could you give me a brief overview of the system? (eg cpu type, memory etc; the output of "lspci" would also give a lot of basic information about your system)
Yes the stock 2.4.2-2 worked properly. I must of run updatedb half a dozen times with that kernel without problems. Only after I upgraded SysVinit from errata did these incidents occur. My system is an Asus CUV4X-DLS (VIA 694XDP 133MHz AGPset with VT82C686B South Bridge) Dual Socket 370 Pentium III 1Ghz 133/fsb (only 1 P3 1ghz seeded currently) 1Gig of PC133 CL-3, 7.5ns, Registered ECC SDRAM from Crucial.com. I'll attach a copy of dmesg and lspci as per request.
Created attachment 22146 [details] Copy of /var/log/dmesg
Created attachment 22147 [details] Copy of lspci -vvv
This seems to be repeatable. Could you try booting with adding "ide=nodma" to the lilo prompt? Same for "noapic". Both are known to fix issues with certain VIA chipsets.
Closing: old bug, seems to be the long fixed VIA chipset hardware thing