Problems with 1.3.90

Steven L Baur (steve@miranova.com)
16 Apr 1996 12:55:56 -0700


It's not very stable. I got two X server crashes within the first
couple of hours of installation:

#1:
Apr 16 10:54:50 deanna kernel: rt_cache: route to 0e53bece was born dead
Apr 16 11:33:50 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+28/216]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00013217
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: eax: f3d7d391 ebx: f3d7d391 ecx: 00000000 edx: 0000a0a0
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: esi: 01281078 edi: 00d97e54 ebp: 01da3ec4 esp: 01da3eb8
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Process X (pid: 132, process nr: 8, stackpage=01da3000)
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Stack: 014a7c00 01281078 00000000 0000005c 00137418 00d97e54 014a7c00 00135028
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: 014a7c00 00000000 01281078 01281078 00138858 01281078 00000000 00001000
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: 00d97690 081f7da8 00d97714 00000000 00000000 00000000 014a76a8 00000000
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback3+24/44] [kfree_skb+208/232] [unix_recvmsg+964/1108] [sock_read+171/192] [sys_read+170/188] [system_call+89/160]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Code: 8b 13 85 d2 74 68 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 61 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+28/216]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00013217
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: eax: f3d7d391 ebx: f3d7d391 ecx: 00000000 edx: 0000a0a0
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: esi: 014a760c edi: 00d97e54 ebp: 01da3dc4 esp: 01da3db8
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Process X (pid: 132, process nr: 8, stackpage=01da3000)
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Stack: 014a7c00 014a760c 00d97714 00000001 001373cf 00d97e54 001375fc 014a7c00
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: 00d97690 00000000 00132fc0 00d97714 00000000 00d97690 00d97690 0000000b
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: 01da3e7c 001331f9 00d97714 00ef3080 0011f866 00d97690 00ef3080 0000000d
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback1+23/28] [unix_release+84/124] [sock_release+92/156] [sock_close+37/44] [close_fp+94/132] [do_exit+222/436] [die_if_kernel+694/704]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: [<03000000>] [<02800000>] [do_general_protection+40/88] [do_general_protection+0/88] [error_code+75/96] [do_readv_writev+336/508] [wake_up_interruptible+28/216] [def_callback3+24/44]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: [kfree_skb+208/232] [unix_recvmsg+964/1108] [sock_read+171/192] [sys_read+170/188] [system_call+89/160]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Code: 8b 13 85 d2 74 68 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 61 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+28/216]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010217
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: eax: f3d7d391 ebx: f3d7d391 ecx: 00000000 edx: 0000a0a0
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: esi: 014a7c00 edi: 00d97e54 ebp: 00fb2f44 esp: 00fb2f38
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Process jangle.tcl (pid: 164, process nr: 36, stackpage=00fb2000)
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Stack: 00d97e10 014a7c00 00d97e94 00000003 001373cf 00d97e54 001375c5 014a7c00
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: 00d97e10 00000000 00132fc0 00d97e94 00000000 00d97e10 00d97e10 00000100
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: 00000000 001331f9 00d97e94 00ef30c0 0011f866 00d97e10 00ef30c0 00000004
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback1+23/28] [unix_release+29/124] [sock_release+92/156] [sock_close+37/44] [close_fp+94/132] [do_exit+222/436] [sys_exit+14/16]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: [system_call+89/160]
Apr 16 11:33:51 deanna kernel: Code: 8b 13 85 d2 74 68 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 61 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00

This is the first time I've ever seen the ``born dead'' message.

#2: came less than a half hour later after rebooting. It left no log
messages. The symptoms were the screen flashing psychedelic and what
sounded like the clock timer probe being activated. This occurred for
about 45 seconds before the X server died and was restarted by init.

These didn't cause a crash, but occurred during ftp. The first one
was after typing ftp and before the login prompt came back. The
second was after typing bye.

Apr 16 12:15:55 deanna kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 01684850, next= 00000000, order=33
Apr 16 12:17:55 deanna kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 01684350, next= 01523000, order=33
Apr 16 12:19:17 deanna kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 01684cd0, next= 01523000, order=33

I've got other machines running 1.3.90 so I can still test those to
see if the socket destroy delay problem is alleviated -- 1.3.89 was
very bad about those.

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