From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020513 Description of problem: Intermittent oopsen caused in the ext3/journaling code. This went away when I switched to ext2. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: There is no statndard way to reproduce this. Typically, I would have the machine running for a few hours/days, and then the oops would happen. The machine would still be usable in both release and debug kernels, sometimes after multiple oopsen. Actual Results: Here is the oops that typically happens: May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000028 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: printing eip: May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: e080ea32 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: *pde = 14dbc067 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: *pte = 00000000 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: Oops: 0000 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: soundcore nls_iso8859-1 via-rhine mii ide-cd cdrom ext3 jbd May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: CPU: 0 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: EIP: 0010:[<e080ea32>] Not tainted May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: EFLAGS: 00013207 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: EIP is at journal_try_to_free_buffers_R1c819bec [jbd] 0x62 (2.4.18-3) May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c1775f2c edx: 00000000 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: esi: daab7940 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c1775f2c May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c1775000) May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: Stack: 00000000 c167ab28 000001d0 c129d17c 000001d0 e081f742 dfe8e000 c167ab28 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: 000001d0 c013c8da c167ab28 000001d0 c167ab28 c167ab44 c0131635 c167ab28 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: 000001d0 00000cb2 00000223 0000007f c02ccf5c 00000cb2 00000a87 0000000a May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: Call Trace: [<e081f742>] ext3_releasepage [ext3] 0x22 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c013c8da>] try_to_release_page [kernel] 0x3a May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c0131635>] page_launder_zone [kernel] 0x3f5 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c0131a68>] page_launder [kernel] 0x168 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c01322f2>] do_try_to_free_pages [kernel] 0x12 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c01325f1>] kswapd [kernel] 0x101 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c0107136>] kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26 May 26 19:46:31 pok kernel: [<c01324f0>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 May 26 19:46:33 pok kernel: May 26 19:46:33 pok kernel: May 26 19:46:33 pok kernel: Code: 8b 5b 28 f6 42 19 02 74 10 89 e0 50 52 e8 ec fe ff ff 5a 85 Additional info: The machine is an athlon xp processor. The drive is IDE. The system is an upgreade from 7.2
Please see http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-085.html (and http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2002-110.html )
The machine is a uni and I am not running an SMP kernel. It is a bit obscure in the oops, but it's a 2.4.18-3. In any case I have updated to 2.4.18-5 and running the debug flavor for the time being...