Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

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Everyone,

I have a new installation of Centos 5.1 that I am using on a gateway server that also has dhcp, named servers. I also have cups set up to function as a print server, and sendmail is being used as a relay to our mail server. yum-cron appears to be updating everything daily as desired.

This Centos 5.1 gateway was created to replace a Fedora Core 5 system with the same functions. When I set up cups I copied the FC5 subdirectory into the Centos 5.1 system. Everything appears to work as expected.

For some reason I am having sendmail crator without giving me a notice in the logs as far as I can determine. However, when I looked at the messages logs I found it filled with many entries in the form of :

kernel: ipp[24519]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fff25495348 error 4

I've done a google search and there appeared to be a problem with doubled printer entries in the printer.conf causing the log entry, but after checking my printer.conf file everything appears to be ok. This file also worked on FC5 without a problem.

I am not sure if the cups problem is related to the sendmail problem.

Any ideas?

Greg Ennis

I have tried several things in the past 48 hours to try to understand what is happening. The only thing I have done that seems to have made a difference is that I have switched 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen to 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.

I am still getting the following log entries :

May 8 08:23:14 DeGw kernel: ipp[11677]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fff7b7ff6b8 error 4 May 8 08:28:26 DeGw kernel: ipp[12925]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fffa5ab6988 error 4

However I have only received 7 of these since last night instead of hundreds while running xen.

When I booted the system last night with 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I received some additional "messages" log entries :

May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: irq 193: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: Call Trace: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff800b703a>]__report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff800b726d>] note_interrupt+0x1e6/0x227 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff800b677f>] __do_IRQ+0xc7/0x105 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80011cc5>] __do_softirq+0x5e/0xd5 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff8006b3bd>] do_IRQ+0xe7/0xf5 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80069d0e>] default_idle+0x0/0x50 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff8005c615>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff80069d37>] default_idle+0x29/0x50 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80046fb1>] cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff803d3806>] start_kernel+0x220/0x225 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff803d3237>] _sinittext+0x237/0x23e May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: handlers: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff801dc154>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55) May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: Disabling IRQ #193

If any of you can help me get a start on this problem I would sure appreciate your help.

It appears to be a flakey USB controller. Is the printer USB? Is it plugged into a USB hub? Check your USB cables, hubs and try to plug it into a different port.

-Ross

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Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

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Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

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Everyone,

I have a new installation of Centos 5.1 that I am using on a gateway server that also has dhcp, named servers. I also have cups set up to function as a print server, and sendmail is being used as a relay to our mail server. yum-cron appears to be updating everything daily as desired.

This Centos 5.1 gateway was created to replace a Fedora Core 5 system with the same functions. When I set up cups I copied the FC5 subdirectory into the Centos 5.1 system. Everything appears to work as expected.

For some reason I am having sendmail crator without giving me a notice in the logs as far as I can determine. However, when I looked at the messages logs I found it filled with many entries in the form of :

kernel: ipp[24519]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fff25495348 error 4

I've done a google search and there appeared to be a problem with doubled printer entries in the printer.conf causing the log entry, but after checking my printer.conf file everything appears to be ok. This file also worked on FC5 without a problem.

I am not sure if the cups problem is related to the sendmail problem.

Any ideas?

Greg Ennis

I have tried several things in the past 48 hours to try to understand what is happening. The only thing I have done that seems to have made a difference is that I have switched 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen to 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.

I am still getting the following log entries :

May 8 08:23:14 DeGw kernel: ipp[11677]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fff7b7ff6b8 error 4 May 8 08:28:26 DeGw kernel: ipp[12925]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fffa5ab6988 error 4

However I have only received 7 of these since last night instead of hundreds while running xen.

When I booted the system last night with 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I received some additional "messages" log entries :

May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: irq 193: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: Call Trace: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff800b703a>]__report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff800b726d>] note_interrupt+0x1e6/0x227 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff800b677f>] __do_IRQ+0xc7/0x105 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80011cc5>] __do_softirq+0x5e/0xd5 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff8006b3bd>] do_IRQ+0xe7/0xf5 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80069d0e>] default_idle+0x0/0x50 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff8005c615>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff80069d37>] default_idle+0x29/0x50 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80046fb1>] cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff803d3806>] start_kernel+0x220/0x225 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff803d3237>] _sinittext+0x237/0x23e May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: handlers: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff801dc154>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55) May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: Disabling IRQ #193

If any of you can help me get a start on this problem I would sure appreciate your help.

It appears to be a flakey USB controller. Is the printer USB? Is it plugged into a USB hub? Check your USB cables, hubs and try to plug it into a different port.

Ross,

Thanks for your response. All the printers are networked and none are connected to the server's usb ports. In fact there is nothing connected to this server's usb ports.

In looking at the cups error logs I am getting abundant entries of :

(/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) crashed on signal 11!

I turned on cups debug, but did not learn anything else.

Thanks again for your help,

Well the IRQ error is definitely USB related. Maybe a memory check is in order here.

Sendmail and cups are not related and the fact that you see errors in both and strange runaway IRQ errors seems to mean there is a hardware problem here.

Check memory (low hanging fruit), then it may be time to start looking at the motherboard.

-Ross

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On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 14:58 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 12:31 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

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Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

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On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 10:46 -0400, Ross S. W. Walker wrote:

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Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

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On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 12:00 -0500, Gregory P. Ennis wrote:

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Everyone,

I have a new installation of Centos 5.1 that I am using on a gateway server that also has dhcp, named servers. I also have cups set up to function as a print server, and sendmail is being used as a relay to our mail server. yum-cron appears to be updating everything daily as desired.

This Centos 5.1 gateway was created to replace a Fedora Core 5 system with the same functions. When I set up cups I copied the FC5 subdirectory into the Centos 5.1 system. Everything appears to work as expected.

For some reason I am having sendmail crator without giving me a notice in the logs as far as I can determine. However, when I looked at the messages logs I found it filled with many entries in the form of :

kernel: ipp[24519]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fff25495348 error 4

I've done a google search and there appeared to be a problem with doubled printer entries in the printer.conf causing the log entry, but after checking my printer.conf file everything appears to be ok. This file also worked on FC5 without a problem.

I am not sure if the cups problem is related to the sendmail problem.

Any ideas?

Greg Ennis

I have tried several things in the past 48 hours to try to understand what is happening. The only thing I have done that seems to have made a difference is that I have switched 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5xen to 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5.

I am still getting the following log entries :

May 8 08:23:14 DeGw kernel: ipp[11677]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fff7b7ff6b8 error 4 May 8 08:28:26 DeGw kernel: ipp[12925]: segfault at 0000000000000000 rip 00002aaaabf2abc0 rsp 00007fffa5ab6988 error 4

However I have only received 7 of these since last night instead of hundreds while running xen.

When I booted the system last night with 2.6.18-53.1.14.el5 I received some additional "messages" log entries :

May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: irq 193: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll" option) May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: Call Trace: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: <IRQ> [<ffffffff800b703a>]__report_bad_irq+0x30/0x7d May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff800b726d>] note_interrupt+0x1e6/0x227 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff800b677f>] __do_IRQ+0xc7/0x105 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80011cc5>] __do_softirq+0x5e/0xd5 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff8006b3bd>] do_IRQ+0xe7/0xf5 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80069d0e>] default_idle+0x0/0x50 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff8005c615>] ret_from_intr+0x0/0xa May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: <EOI> [<ffffffff80069d37>] default_idle+0x29/0x50 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff80046fb1>] cpu_idle+0x95/0xb8 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff803d3806>] start_kernel+0x220/0x225 May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff803d3237>] _sinittext+0x237/0x23e May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: handlers: May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: [<ffffffff801dc154>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x55) May 8 01:50:00 DeGw kernel: Disabling IRQ #193

If any of you can help me get a start on this problem I would sure appreciate your help.

It appears to be a flakey USB controller. Is the printer USB? Is it plugged into a USB hub? Check your USB cables, hubs and try to plug it into a different port.

Ross,

Thanks for your response. All the printers are networked and none are connected to the server's usb ports. In fact there is nothing connected to this server's usb ports.

In looking at the cups error logs I am getting abundant entries of :

(/usr/lib/cups/backend/ipp) crashed on signal 11!

I turned on cups debug, but did not learn anything else.

Thanks again for your help,

Well the IRQ error is definitely USB related. Maybe a memory check is in order here.

Sendmail and cups are not related and the fact that you see errors in both and strange runaway IRQ errors seems to mean there is a hardware problem here.

Check memory (low hanging fruit), then it may be time to start looking at the motherboard.

-Ross

Ross,

I was hoping it might be something else. I'll check the memory tonight

Thanks for your suggestions!!!

Greg _______________________________________________

Everyone,

I finally found the solution to this problem. I did replace the memory but there was no improvement.

When I created this machine I decided to swap the /etc/cups directory on the old Fedora 5 system with the original Centos cups directory.

All I did to solve the problem is to use the original Centos /etc/cups directory while manually adding the printers and remove the /etc/cups directory that I had copied from the Fedora 5 system

This resolved the problem.

Greg