On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 12:38 AM, Pasi Kärkkäinen <pasik at iki.fi> wrote: > Hello! > > Has anyone seen this netfilter kernel crash? > > Images from the console of the crashed firewall: > http://pasik.reaktio.net/centos5-kernel-crash/ > > Firewall is HP DL360 G4 server running CentOS 5.x 32 bit. > > I've seen this firewall crashing multiple times, but I only started investigating it lately.. > > It has happened using CentOS 5.0, 5.1 and now also with 5.2. I'm not sure if > it was the same bug earlier, but at least the last two times (with CentOS 5.2) > it has been the same, see screenshots. > > Last lines of the console output: > > EIP: [<f8af2c5c>] __ip_ct_refresh_acct+0xa1/0x129 [ip_conntrack] SS:ESP 0068:c0724e4c > <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt > > At the moment firewall is running CentOS 5.2, Linux kernel 2.6.18-92.1.10.el5.centos.plus. > > Any tips how to resolve this? You might want to look at this upstream bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=456664 There is a quick fix in comment #24 that you can try out without having to rebuild kernel. Akemi