[CentOS] How to diagnose "Unable to handle kernel paging request" kernel panic?

[Steven Haigh]

On 28/04/2007, at 9:50 PM, Jim King wrote:

> Does anyone know how to diagnose the error "Unable to handle kernel  
> paging request at virtual address xxxxxx"?
>
> I got this error (followed by a panic and a crash) on a server  
> running CentOS 4.4 with the 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp kernel.  The machine  
> is based on an Intel 975XBX2 motherboard (975X chipset).  I have  
> built several of these and they have been extremely stable.  This  
> one is an Asterisk PBX.  It was up for over a month before this crash.
>
> Here is the exact kernel build info, from the restart log: "Linux  
> version 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp (mockbuild at builder6.centos.org) (gcc  
> version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 30  
> 12:33:47 EST 2007"
>
> Does the call trace indicate something to do with the ext3 file  
> system?  I am not running RAID on this machine, it is just a single  
> drive with LVM.
>
> Any help that the list could be would be really great.
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Do you have a TDM400 card in these machines by chance? If so, are you  
running Zaptel 1.4.2? I had this same crash happen using zaptel  
1.4.2. Updating to 1.4.2.1 fixed this.

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