[CentOS] kernel panic - spin_lock

Fri Apr 28 15:54:32 UTC 2006
Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com>

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 16:41 +0100, Will McDonald wrote:
> Guys,
> 
> one of our boxes just died with the following error:
> 
> kernel panic - not syncing: fs/block_dev.c:396: spin_lock
> (fs/block_dev.c:c0361c0) already locked by fs/block_dev.c/287.
> 
> The system's an LVS running CentOS 4.3:
> 
> centos-release-4-3.2
> kernel-2.6.9-34.EL
> ipvsadm-1.24-6
> heartbeat-1.2.3.cvs.20050927-1.centos4
> 
> I note that there's a bug report filed related to CentOS 4.2:
> 
> http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=1201&nbn=7
> 
> I was just wondering, would you like a bug report filed for this?
> 
> Will.

There are lots of spinlock issues fixed with a kernel that is in our
testing repo ...

THIS IS A TESTING KERNEL !!!!

:)

You can get it like this:

place the testing repo file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ ... the repo file is
here:

http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo

Then you can get the testing kernel (or kernel-smp, kernel-hugemem. etc)
with the command:

yum --enable-repo=c4-testing install kernel

(or kernel-smp, kernel-hugemem, etc.)

(did I mention this was a testing kernel ... :)

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