[CentOS] Kernel Panic on HP/Compaq ProLiant G7

Alain Péan alain.pean at lpp.polytechnique.fr
Thu Mar 24 16:37:21 UTC 2011


Le 24/03/2011 16:03, Windsor Dave L. (AdP/TEF7.1) a écrit :
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I recently installed CentOS 5.5 x86_64 on a brand new ProLiant DL380 G7.  I have identical OS software running reock-solid on two other DL380 ProLiant servers, but they are G6 models, not G7.  On the G7, the installation went perfectly and the machine ran great for about 2 weeks, when it just seemed to "stop".  The system stopped responding on the network, and there was no video on the console (or remote console via iLO).  It would not reboot or cold boot through iLO, I actually had to hold the power to turn it off and then hit it again to power up.
>
> This happened several times within a few days of each other.  Each time, there was no evidence in any logs of a problem - the system just seemed to stop or lock up.   We did have a CPU problem light appear on the front, so HP came in and replaced the one 4-core CPU.  Since then, it has run as long as two weeks, but still crashes randomly.  After the last reboot, I left the console in text mode on vt1, and when it crashed again this morning this was displayed on the screen:
>
> CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: ffff8100dc435cf0  CR3: 000000008a6ca000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
> Process smbd (pid: 18970, threadinfo ffff81001529e000, task ffff81011f5347a0)
> Stack:  ffff81011e4e71c0 0000000000000000 ffff8100cf12a015 ffffffff80009c41
>   ffff81011e4e71c0 0000000100000000 000000030027ea9d ffff8100cf12a011
>   ffff81011e4e71c0 ffff81010d9cf300 ffff81011e4e71c0 ffff8101044099c0
> Call Trace:
>   [<ffffffff80009c41>] __link_path_walk+0x3a6/0xf5b
>   [<ffffffff8000ea4b>] link_path_walk+0x42/0xb2
>   [<ffffffff8000cd72>] do_path_lookup+0x275/0x2f1
>   [<ffffffff80012851>] getname+0x15b/0x1c2
>   [<ffffffff800239d1>] __user_walk_fd+0x37/0x4c
>   [<ffffffff80028905>] vfs_stat_fd+0x1b/0x4a
>   [<ffffffff80039fa2>] fcntl_setlk+0x243/0x273
>   [<ffffffff80023703>] sys_newstat+0x19/0x31
>   [<ffffffff8005d229>] tracesys+0x71/0xe0
>   [<ffffffff8005d28d>] tracesys+0xd5/0xe0
>
>
> Code: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 70 4d 4f 9d 00 81 ff ff 98 e4 4b dc
> RIP  [<ffff8100dc435cf0>]
>   RSP<ffff81001529fd18>
> CR2: ffff8100dc435cf0
>   <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception
>
>
> This suggests that something happened in a Samba process.  I have the Samba3x packages installed since we are beginning to introduce Win7 clients into our environment.
>
> Googling "Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception" and "CentOS" produced many hits, but nothing that seemed to exactly match my problem.  Since this is the only G7 server I have here right now, I can't reproduce the problem on another machine.  The G6s I have running the identical version of CentOS have no problems.
>
> I am trying to determine if this is pointing to a hardware or software issue.  Some of the Google results suggested using a Centosplus kernel - is this a good idea?
>
> The server is a HP DL380 G7 Server with 4 GB RAM (1 DIMM 1333 MHz), one 4-core CPU (2133 MHz), 4 built-in Broadcom "NetExtreme II BCM5709 II Gigabit Ethernet" NICs, and a P410 Smart Array Controller.  The P410 and the system BIOS have both been updated to the latest levels to see if that fixes the crashes, with no change.
>
> Any idea where I should look next?
>
> Thanks for any help anyone can provide!
>

The fact that it appears after two weeks or so reminds me of a bug I saw 
on linux PowerEdge mailing list, //the "blocked for more than 120 
seconds" timeout bug.
I don't know if your problem is related, but if it is the case you 
should see the message in your logs.

Do you have any high IO load, at least at some moments, on your server ?

See :
http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2011-March/044515.html

In this case, using a newer kernel would be indeed it seems a good idea.

See if it can help...

Alain
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