Bug 53544 - kernel BUG at inode.c in /var/log/messages file
Summary: kernel BUG at inode.c in /var/log/messages file
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Arjan van de Ven
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-09-11 06:53 UTC by Horst Poehlmann
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:37 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2002-02-19 20:36:01 UTC
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Description Horst Poehlmann 2001-09-11 06:53:39 UTC
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Description of problem:
I have a Linux box here which has been running for some time now. It's                                                                                          used for compilations, etc.. The problem I am having is that it seems                                                                                           that / is full but isn't really.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                Here is some info about the machine:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf)                                                                                                                             Linux linuxserver 2.4.2-2smp #1 SMP Sun Apr 8 20:21:34 EDT 2001 i686 unknown                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    df -k -F ext2                                                                                                                                                   Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on                                                                                              /dev/sda6              1035660    983060         0 100% /                                                                                                       /dev/sda2                23333     11489     10640  52% /boot                                                                                                   /dev/sda10            48030308    394816  45195624   1% /disk/1                                                                                                 /dev/sda5              2071384   1065004    901156  55% /usr                                                                                                    /dev/sda9               256667      4346    239069   2% /usr/local                                                                                              /dev/sda8               256667     25644    217771  11% /var                                                                 As you can see, / is 100% full. However when you do a du on all the                                                                                             directories it doesn't look like it's anywhere near full. It's a one Gig                                                                                        partition. It shouldn't even be using half that.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                I have started the system in single user mode and unmounted all                                                                                                 partitions in case there is anything hiding anywhere but I could not                                                                                            find anything.  


I did have a look at the messages file to see if                                                                                        I had any "File system full" messages. I didn't see any, but I did see                                                                                          this:                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:384!                                                                                                  Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: invalid operand: 0000                                                                                                       Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: CPU:    0                                                                                                                   Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: EIP:    0010:[clear_inode+130/384]                                                                                          Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0150402>]                                                                                                   Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286                                                                                                            Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: eax: 0000001b   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000002   edx: 04000000                                                               Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: esi: eebebd80   edi: f0f21424   ebp: ef31ddec   esp: ef31dd8c                                                               Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018                                                                                              Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: Process ps (pid: 3437, stackpage=ef31d000)                                                                                  Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: Stack: c0230d7b c0230e9e 00000180 f8941180 f0f21424 f890d26c eebebd80 eebebd80                                              Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        f8941180 c0150ef2 eebebd80 f7b13460 ef31ddec f89135b3 f0f21424 00000000                                              Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        ef31de88 f8930cdd eebebd80 3a699d00 ef31de3c f890a37c 00000002 eebebd80                                              Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: Call Trace: [error_table+60707/64248] [error_table+60998/64248] [megaraid:mega_hbas+1012160/88211088]                       +[megaraid:mega_hbas+799404/88423844] [megaraid:mega_hbas+1012160/88211088] [iput+354/368] [megaraid:mega_hbas+824819/88398429]                                 Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: Call Trace: [<c0230d7b>] [<c0230e9e>] [<f8941180>] [<f890d26c>] [<f8941180>] [<c0150ef2>] [<f89135b3>]                      Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        [megaraid:mega_hbas+945437/88277811] [megaraid:mega_hbas+787388/88435860] [megaraid:mega_hbas+787433/88435815]       +[megaraid:mega_hbas+947916/88275332] [megaraid:mega_hbas+925630/88297618] [megaraid:mega_hbas+925473/88297775] [megaraid:mega_hbas+819240/88404008]            +[megaraid:mega_hbas+819164/88404084]                                                                                                                           Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        [<f8930cdd>] [<f890a37c>] [<f890a3a9>] [<f893168c>] [<f892bf7e>] [<f892bee1>] [<f8911fe8>] [<f8911f9c>]              Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        [megaraid:mega_hbas+819144/88404104] [megaraid:mega_hbas+926307/88296941] [cached_lookup+45/80] [path_walk+674/2432] +[dput+59/416] [open_namei+144/1808] [filp_open+54/96] [getname+91/160]                                                                                         Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        [<f8911f88>] [<f892c223>] [<c01459ed>] [<c0145f42>] [<c014e8cb>] [<c0146d60>] [<c0139ae6>] [<c01456fb>]              Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        [sys_open+58/224] [system_call+51/56]                                                                                Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:        [<c0139dfa>] [<c01091cb>]                                                                                            Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel:                                                                                                                             Sep 11 14:56:16 linuxserver kernel: Code: 0f 0b 8b 86 f8 00 00 00 83 c4 0c 83 e0 08 74 07 56 e8 98 f9                                                                                                                                                                                                                           Happens with other processes as well, not just ps.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         The machine is a Quad-CPU, 1Gig RAM, hardware             raid (striped and mirrored) in case it makes a difference.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
not really reproducable as such, it just happens.


Additional info:
machine was upgraded from RH6.2 to 7.1. 6.2 did not have this problem. It's also running Clearcase 4.1 and has the mvfs kernel module loaded.

Comment 1 Arjan van de Ven 2001-09-11 09:56:27 UTC
Can you tell me what the mvfs kernel module is ? Since something weird is 
happening any kernel module might be involved....

Comment 2 Horst Poehlmann 2001-09-13 02:01:04 UTC
the mvfs module is a filesystem that ClearCase uses. 

According to Rational, redhat and clearcase should work together. 


Comment 3 Arjan van de Ven 2001-09-13 08:24:01 UTC
This "kernel bug" message means something is doing something wrong with the
inode (filesystem metadata) administration, and usually when that happens, a
filesystem is doing something wrong. Could you please ALSO report this to
Rational as it is likely a problem in their module.

Comment 4 Need Real Name 2002-02-19 20:35:57 UTC
This kernel oops is the result of a defect in the mvfs module.  This is 
fixed by the following patches to ClearCase:  clearcase_p4.2-10
clearcase_p4.1-23.

Comment 5 Arjan van de Ven 2002-02-19 20:53:21 UTC
Systems with binary only modules aren't supported anyway


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