[CentOS] kernel panic not syncing fatal exception due to reiserfs -- rebooted properly on ext3

Akemi Yagi amyagi at gmail.com
Mon Aug 2 20:31:25 UTC 2010


On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> we had one of our mail servers , going on kernel panic mode  ( not syncing
> fatal exception) ... cause /var/queue/postfix was on reiserfs part .. it has
> not been giving us any isssue quite some time , but yesterday and today it
> went on Kernel panic mode , when we hashed out the reiserfs part it booted
> properly .. we formated the part^ on ext3 later and things working fine now
> . Could any one have a idea why this could have happened . The server hung
> at 19:52:56 hours
> Here is the logs
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ug 2 19:50:01 mmail2 snmpd[4460]: Connection from UDP: []:53980
> Aug 2 19:50:55 mmail kernel: ReiserFS: sda6: warning: vs-13060:
> reiserfs_update_sd: stat data of object [2 203562 0x0 SD] (nlink == 2) not
> found (pos 1)
(snip)
> Aug 2 20:13:27 mmail syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
> Aug 2 20:13:27 mmail kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> Aug 2 20:13:27 mmail kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.el5
(snip)
> --
> Regards
> Agnello D'souza

This is a known problem and there is a patch for that:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3156

Your kernel is so old (meaning many security holes). Please update the
system and while doing so, grab the centosplus kernel which has the
fix for this issue.

Akemi



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