Bug 533311 - The semaphore timeout period has expired.
Summary: The semaphore timeout period has expired.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: 11
Hardware: i586
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Kernel Maintainer List
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-11-06 01:48 UTC by Anonymous account
Modified: 2010-06-28 15:23 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-06-28 15:23:59 UTC
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Description Anonymous account 2009-11-06 01:48:16 UTC
Description of problem:  In the last 6 days, this is happening 1-2 times per day.  No new changes made, but I do have all the latest packages available.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.30.9-90.fc11.i586

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual results:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel:invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP 

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel:last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa2/dev

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel:Process kswapd0 (pid: 22, ti=dfa28000 task=dfa20ca0 task.ti=dfa28000)

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel:Stack:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: 00000002 00000001 c117a740 c12f52a0 c103ba20 c103ba60 c103baa0 c110a600

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: c110a640 c110a6e0 c136f800 c10ebc40 c10ebc60 c10ebc80 c114e2e0 c114e260

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c048bf17>] ? shrink_list+0x24d/0x4e1

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c048893d>] ? get_dirty_limits+0x1f/0x2e1

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c0423803>] ? set_next_entity+0xa0/0x10c

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c0402286>] ? __switch_to+0x78/0xfb

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c042c374>] ? finish_task_switch+0x8d/0xa7

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c048c3c1>] ? shrink_zone+0x216/0x289

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c048c8dc>] ? kswapd+0x369/0x51b

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c048b14e>] ? isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x19b

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c044065d>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c0422947>] ? complete+0x39/0x43

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c048c573>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x51b

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c048c573>] ? kswapd+0x0/0x51b

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c0440365>] ? kthread+0x4b/0x6f

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c044031a>] ? kthread+0x0/0x6f

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel: [<c0403f87>] ? kernel_thread_helper+0x7/0x10

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel:Code: f6 43 ea 01 75 24 8b 85 78 ff ff ff f6 40 08 40 0f 84 63 03 00 00 89 f0 e8 88 14 01 00 85 c0 0f 84 2d 03 00 00 bf 01 00 00 00 89 <f0> e8 db f0 ff ff 89 85 7c ff ff ff 8b 46 08 85 c0 78 2b 83 bd 

Message from syslogd@server at Nov  1 21:41:58 ...
 kernel:EIP: [<c048b90e>] shrink_page_list+0x1b0/0x56c SS:ESP 0068:dfa29d80

The semaphore timeout period has expired.



Expected results:  Smooth sailing...


Additional info:  Nothing else I can find.  I do not see anything in the logs, but maybe I am not sure how to get to it.

Comment 1 Anonymous account 2009-11-09 03:26:29 UTC
I should note for the purpose of this bug that it only really occurs when cifs is active and I have external drives (via WinXP) mounted.  The problem only recently began, though, and these cifs mounts have existed since cifs was samba.

Comment 2 Anonymous account 2009-11-09 20:00:21 UTC
This computer is officially dead now.  It had kept dying on this semaphore issue, and now it keeps rebooting on Probing EDD.  Any recourse, or am I out of luck?  How do I get it to boot up again?

Comment 3 Anonymous account 2009-11-09 20:03:49 UTC
Sorry, spoke too soon.  It was in a recursive reboot loop but after letting it rest for a few minutes, it's back up.  However, I would like to know if anyone has any ideas about this semaphore issue.  It seems everything else is falling apart now.

Comment 4 Anonymous account 2009-11-10 05:42:53 UTC
As part of this bug, I'm now getting errors like this (which I typed by hand, so please excuse any typos):

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at efd86f5c
*pde = 00000000
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa6/dev
Modules linked in: sco bridge stp llc bnep l2cap bluetooth autofs4 nls_utf8 cifs sunrpc ipv6 uinput snd_emu10k1_synth snd_emux_synth snd_seq_virimidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_mid_emul snd_seq ppdev snd_emu10k1 snd_via82xx snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_mpu401_uart snd_timer snd_rawmidi snd_page_alloc snd_util_mem snd_seq_device snd_hwdep via686a hwmon joydev snd pcspkr e1000 i2c_viapro emu10k1_gp gameport parport_pc soundcore parport ata_generic pata_acpi pata_via radeon drm i2c_algo_bit i2c_core [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]

Pid: 1990, com: java Not tainted (2.6.30.8-64.fc11.i586 #1) MS-6330
EIP: 0060:[<c0423fff>] EFLAGS 00010086 CPU: 0
EIP is at dequeue_entity+0x1f1/0x1fc
EAX: f1099c5c EBX: ffffffff ECX: feced300 EDX: 000026d7
ESI: c1407b18 EDI: c1407ae0 EBP: d5a29d70 ESP: d5a29d4c
DS: 007b ES: 007b FC: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
Process java (pid: 1990, ti = d5a28000 task=df3d3340 task.ti=d5a28000
Stack: 
 f1099c5c 000026d7 fcf8c733 ffffffff feced300 ffffffff c1407b18 df3d336c
 c1407ae0 d5a29d84 c042485d c073a384 df3d3340 00000000 d5a29db0 c0420d29
 00000001 c1407ae0 dd163fc8 00000277 00000000 00000000 c1407ae0 c099b1dc
Call Trace:
 [<c042485d>] ? dequeue_task_fair+0x21/0x61
 [<c0420d29>] ? dequeue_task+0x125/0x134
 [<c0420d86>] ? deactivate_task+0x24/0x2a
 [<c072d164>] ? __schedule+0x13f/0x7b0
 [<c072d7e2>] ? schedule+0xd/0x1c
 [<c044ca8a>] ? futex_wait+0x188/0x340
 [<c0484341>] ? file_accessed+0x19/0x1b
 [<c04863d6>] ? generic_file_aio_read+0x4b5/0x4ef
 [<c0485de1>] ? generic_file_aio_write+0x69/0xb1
 [<c0429b21>] ? default_wake_function+0x0/0x12
 [<c044dc89>] ? do_futex+0x6f/0x62b
 [<c04411dd>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x34
 [<c044e316>] ? sys_futex+0x31/0xe3
 [<c040a40d>] ? syscall_trace_enter+0xdc+0xf0
 [<c0403515>] ?syscall+call+0x7/0xb
Code: 89 c1 89 d3 2b 4d dc 1b 5d e0 89 4d ec 83 fb 00 89 5d f0 7c 0d 7f 05 83 f9 00 76 06 89 45 dc 89 55 e0 8b 45 dc 8b 55 e0 89 46 14 <89> 56 18 83 c4 18 5b 5e 5f 5d ce 55 89 e5 89 e5 57 56 53 83 ec 2c 0f
EIP: [<c0423fff>] dequeue_entity+0x1f1/0x1fc SS:ESP:0068:d5a29d4c
CR2: 00000000efd86f5c
---[end of trace 2e4465db50ae58a0 ]---


Does anyone have ANY idea?  This machine has crashed at least 15 times today....

Comment 5 Anonymous account 2009-11-10 16:17:13 UTC
More stuff.  Can someone just give me an idea of what I could potentially uninstall or reinstall to fix this? 

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP 

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa3/dev

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:Process java (pid: 2000, ti=df348000 task=df360000 task.ti=df348000)

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:Stack:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel: df349fac c04ab655 0176fd57 00000000 00000001 00000037 8c4118f8 00000000

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel: df348000 c0403535 00000037 00000000 0176fd57 8c4118f8 00000000 8c411910

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel: [<c056ecad>] ? might_fault+0x1c/0x1e

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel: [<c056edfc>] ? copy_to_user+0x34/0x10a

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel: [<c04ab655>] ? sys_llseek+0x59/0x77

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel: [<c0403535>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:Code: e9 8d 55 ec 89 d8 e8 a4 f2 ff ff 58 5a 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 55 89 e5 53 89 c3 c6 44 10 0c 00 8b 90 0c 01 00 00 4a 89 90 0c 01 00 00 31 <c0> 85 d2 75 64 8b 03 8b 53 04 85 c0 89 02 74 03 89 50 04 c7 03 

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:EIP: [<c072f36a>] collect_one_slot+0x19/0x85 SS:ESP 0068:df349f6c

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:03:42 ...
 kernel:CR2: 000000006a991546

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:Oops: 0002 [#2] SMP 

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:last sysfs file: /sys/devices/virtual/vc/vcsa3/dev

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:Process perl (pid: 2660, ti=d1a4a000 task=c8d1d860 task.ti=d1a4a000)

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:Stack:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: 00000000 c08f5840 00000001 00000001 00000000 001201d2 00000000 00000246

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: c08f5020 c08f5020 001201d2 df77f54c c08f7120 d1a4be60 c04878d2 c08f7120

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c04876b5>] ? get_page_from_freelist+0x22e/0x3a2

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c04878d2>] ? __alloc_pages_internal+0xa9/0x384

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c06cc245>] ? ip_local_deliver+0x66/0x6d

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c048967a>] ? __do_page_cache_readahead+0xa9/0x160

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c0489777>] ? do_page_cache_readahead+0x46/0x50

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c04836f0>] ? filemap_fault+0x149/0x31d

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c0494b66>] ? __do_fault+0x41/0x316

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c04950e5>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x2aa/0x640

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c072e1fa>] ? do_page_fault+0x206/0x215

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c072dff4>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x215

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c072c7ed>] ? error_code+0x6d/0x80

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel: [<c072dff4>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x215

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:Code: 16 50 53 68 45 0f 84 c0 6a 33 68 34 0f 84 c0 e8 45 da eb ff 83 c4 14 8b 13 8b 43 04 89 42 04 89 10 c7 43 04 00 02 20 00 c7 03 00 <01> 10 00 8b 5d fc c9 c3 55 89 e5 57 89 cf 56 89 d6 53 89 c3 8b 

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:EIP: [<c0571b6c>] list_del+0x58/0x60 SS:ESP 0068:d1a4bdb0

Message from syslogd@server at Nov 10 11:09:14 ...
 kernel:CR2: 00000000a0cb2518

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