On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Agnello George <agnello.dsouza at gmail.com> > wrote: > > Hi > > we had one of our mail servers , going on kernel panic mode ( not > syncing > > fatal exception) ... cause /var/queue/postfix was on reiserfs part .. it > has > > not been giving us any isssue quite some time , but yesterday and today > it > > went on Kernel panic mode , when we hashed out the reiserfs part it > booted > > properly .. we formated the part^ on ext3 later and things working fine > now > > . Could any one have a idea why this could have happened . The server > hung > > at 19:52:56 hours > > Here is the logs > > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ug 2 19:50:01 mmail2 snmpd[4460]: Connection from UDP: []:53980 > > Aug 2 19:50:55 mmail kernel: ReiserFS: sda6: warning: vs-13060: > > reiserfs_update_sd: stat data of object [2 203562 0x0 SD] (nlink == 2) > not > > found (pos 1) > (snip) > > Aug 2 20:13:27 mmail syslogd 1.4.1: restart. > > Aug 2 20:13:27 mmail kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg > started. > > Aug 2 20:13:27 mmail kernel: Linux version 2.6.18-128.el5 > (snip) > > -- > > Regards > > Agnello D'souza > > This is a known problem and there is a patch for that: > > http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=3156 > > Your kernel is so old (meaning many security holes). Please update the > system and while doing so, grab the centosplus kernel which has the > fix for this issue. > > Akemi > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Hi Thanks for you reply , currently we have the default kernel 2.6.18-128.el5 ( centos 5.3 ) , can i install the kernel-2.6.18-8.1.8.el5.src.rpm and add the patch to this or do i have to download the kernel 2.6.21 then compile it and then install it . I had been to the kernel.org and cant find the kernel 2.6.21 , the kernels available are 2.6.27.49 and above . -- Regards Agnello D'souza -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20100803/17949086/attachment-0005.html>