On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 17:04 +0100, Will McDonald wrote: > On 28/04/06, Johnny Hughes <mailing-lists at hughesjr.com> wrote: > > 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. > > > > > > > There are lots of spinlock issues fixed with a kernel that is in our > > testing repo ... > > > > THIS IS A TESTING KERNEL !!!! > > > > > > (did I mention this was a testing kernel ... :) > > So, this testing kernel, it'll be fine and if there are any problems I > can blame you guys for not telling me, right? :) > > I may give that a pop if the problem becomes more frequent but so far > I think I've seen spin_lock panics twice in 6 months, so I may bide my > time. > > Cheers. > > Will. :) Just for the record, I am running the testing kernel on my main workstation (an smp i686 machine) and it has been working fine for me since built on 20 April. It is 2.6.9-34.19.EL and was based on a kernel from here: http://people.redhat.com/~jbaron/rhel4/ -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20060428/7ac0b301/attachment-0005.sig>