From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.0.0-10; Linux) Description of problem: I just installed a full install of Redhat 7.3 on my system. I'll put some background system info: Althon board, i686, XP1800+ I have set the kernel param in /etc/lilo.conf to mem-nopentium The system just suddenly froze forcing a reboot. All activity stopped, however it was still replying to packets on the network. Here are the logs: I checked back and several of the below entries are made before the crash: May 7 20:56:19 smackenz kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann May 7 20:56:19 smackenz kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 203M May 7 20:56:19 smackenz insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: init_module: No such device May 7 20:56:19 smackenz insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters May 7 20:56:19 smackenz insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.18-3/kernel/drivers/char/agp/agpgart.o: insmod agpgart failed May 7 20:56:19 smackenz kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: unable to retrieve symbol table After about 5 of these this is in /var/log/messages I got this: May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:117! May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: invalid operand: 0000 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: smbfs nls_iso8859-1 sr_mod emu10k1 ac97_codec sound soundcore NVdriver autofs May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: CPU: 0 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0132dc7>] Tainted: P May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: EIP is at __free_pages_ok [kernel] 0x57 (2.4.18-3) May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: eax: 00000020 ebx: c12e60d8 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00002bc2 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c02ccf5c ebp: 00000000 esp: c13adf58 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c13ad000) May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: Stack: c0229d95 00000075 cd66f2c0 c12e60d8 c013e783 cff1b200 c129de80 00000030 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: c013c8da c12e60d8 c12e60f4 c02ccf5c cd66f2c0 c0130844 c12e60d8 00000030 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: c12e60d8 c12e60f4 c02ccf5c 00000092 c0131e06 fffffcd5 c13ac000 c02ccf84 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: Call Trace: [<c013e783>] try_to_free_buffers [kernel] 0xb3 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: [<c013c8da>] try_to_release_page [kernel] 0x3a May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: [<c0130844>] drop_page [kernel] 0x34 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: [<c0131e06>] refill_inactive_zone [kernel] 0x206 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: [<c0132770>] kswapd [kernel] 0x280 May 7 21:02:16 smackenzkernel: [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: [<c0107136>] kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: [<c01324f0>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: May 7 21:02:16 smackenz kernel: Code: 0f 0b 5d 58 8b 3d d0 17 34 c0 89 d8 29 f8 69 c0 b7 6d db b6 May 7 21:06:04 smackenz syslogd 1.4.1: restart. [after reboot!] I should note, I have the latest NVIDIA drivers installed. I've not changed anything to do with the kernel except for installing the NVIDIA drivers. Anyway thats about it. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Maybe by installing the NVIDIA driver it causes this to happen 2. Maybe not..? All I can suggest is install the NVIDIA driver, set up gnome and do a few graphical things - like play chronium etc for a while and see if it crashes. Oh, when it actually did crash I was basically just sitting on the desktop with gaim and Xchat running. Actual Results: Only crashed once so far - but I've just rebooted so it may do so again soon Additional info: Thanks.
Unless you can reproduce this without the nvidia drivers loaded, we have to consider this their bug. We have had many bug reports that go away when you quit using the nvidia module...