[CentOS] Centos-4 Kernel pannic

[Steven Vishoot]

--- Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, April 12, 2005 3:08 pm, Bob Pierce said:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > We are running a new Centos-4 server, and it has
> kernel panicked on us 4
> > times in the last month. After the first kernel
> panic we hooked up a
> > serial console to the server and captured the
> output in order to have a
> > record of what happens.  I've included the error
> messages from the last
> > time it locked up... but it doesn't really mean
> much to me. Anybody have
> > any ideas what might be causing this server lock
> up?
> >
> > Server description:
> > -Dell PE1750 - dual 2.8Ghz Xeon (with Hyper
> Threading on) - 2GB DDR RAM
> > - Perc4-DI onboard RAID using 3 scsi drives in
> raid-5 configuration
> > -ext3 file system
> > -kernel-smp-2.6.9-5.0.3.EL
> > -mysql - from distribution
> > -2 postfix instances rebuilt with MySQL support
> > -amavisd-new
> > -clamav
> > -spamassassin
> > -rbldnsd
> > -bind
> >
> >
> > Here's the captured output from a serial console
> connected to the server
> > at time of fault.
> >
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference
> at virtual address
> > 00000000
> >  printing eip:
> > f8872da8
> > *pde = 35562001
> > Oops: 0000 [#1]
> > SMP
> > Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc dm_mod
> button battery ac
> > ohci_hcd tg3 floppy sg ext3 jbd megaraid_mbox
> megaraid_mm sd_mod
> > scsi_mod
> > CPU:    1
> > EIP:    0060:[<f8872da8>]    Not tainted VLI
> > EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.9-5.0.3.ELsmp)
> > EIP is at __journal_file_buffer+0x1b/0x221 [jbd]
> > eax: 00000000   ebx: d2fff26c   ecx: 00000008  
> edx: c2327680
> > esi: c2327680   edi: 00000008   ebp: 00000000  
> esp: f7533dd4
> > ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
> > Process kjournald (pid: 210, threadinfo=f7533000
> task=f75825b0)
> > Stack: 00000000 00000000 f148fad8 f7f66200
> d2fff26c c2327680 f887351b
> > 00000286
> >        00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
> 00000000 d2517e6c f7f66200
> > caa4c50c
> >        00001f18 00000000 f75825b0 c011e8d2
> f7533e44 f7533e44 f750c054
> > f8836f24
> > Call Trace:
> >  [<f887351b>]
> journal_commit_transaction+0x310/0xfb1 [jbd]
> >  [<c011e8d2>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
> >  [<f8836f24>] megaraid_isr+0x1ad/0x1bf
> [megaraid_mbox]
> >  [<c011e8d2>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
> >  [<c011bcd5>] finish_task_switch+0x30/0x66
> >  [<c02c4363>] schedule+0x833/0x869
> >  [<c0127e62>] del_timer_sync+0x7a/0x9c
> >  [<f8875e6d>] kjournald+0xc7/0x215 [jbd]
> >  [<c011e8d2>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
> >  [<c011e8d2>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
> >  [<c011bd1d>] schedule_tail+0x12/0x55
> >  [<f8875da0>] commit_timeout+0x0/0x5 [jbd]
> >  [<f8875da6>] kjournald+0x0/0x215 [jbd]
> >  [<c01041f1>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
> > Code: 14 ba 01 00 00 00 83 c4 10 89 d0 5b 5e 5f 5d
> c3 55 31 ed 57 89 cf
> > 56 89 d6 53 53 53 89 c3 c7 44 24 04 00 00 00 00 8b
> 00 89 04 24 <8b> 00
> > a9 00 00 08 00 75 29 68 d4 85 87 f8 68 9b 07 00 00
> 68 55
> >
> 
> No idea what is causing this (looks like a
> Filesystem process to me), but
> we have a new kernel (that will be included in
> CentOS-4.1).  It is
> kernel-2.6.9-6.37.EL.src.rpm.
> 
> I would be glad to give you the new i686-smp kernel
> to see if it solves
> your problem.
> 
> Are these EM64T Xeons or i686(32-bit) Xeons:
>
http://www.intel.com/products/processor/xeon/index.htm
> (looking at the Dell site, I think they are 32-bit)
> 
> (If I am wrong and it is the EM64T Xeons, you should
> have installed the
> x86_64 distro instead of the i386 one)
> 
> Also recommend the latest SCSI Controller BIOS:
>
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&SystemID=PWE_PNT_XEO_1750&os=LE30&osl=en&deviceid=2608&devlib=35&category=35&releaseid=R85295
> 
> and Server BIOS:
>
http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/format.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&SystemID=PWE_PNT_XEO_1750&os=LE30&osl=en&deviceid=159&devlib=1&category=1&releaseid=R87618
> 
> -- 
> Johnny Hughes
> <http://www.HughesJR.com/>
> 
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wow, this looks and sounds like the same problems i
was having with my box. But mine was once a day that
it would lock up. i guess i am going to have to wait
until 4.1 before i think about upgrading to centos 4*...

Steven
 

"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it said 'Requires Windows or better'. So I installed Linux."


		
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