PROBLEM: Kernel crash/oops

Bill K. (billy@cafe.net)
Thu, 01 Jul 1999 06:12:24 -0400


Got an oops kernel crash with the following message. Had to switch
computer off/on to reboot.:

Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging
request at virtual address e2293fe8
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 =
00101000
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: Oops: 0000
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: EIP: 0010:[kmem_cache_free+64/372]
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: EFLAGS: 00010082
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: eax: 0000005c ebx: c2293920 ecx:
e2293fe0 edx: c229397c
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: esi: c009e740 edi: 00000282 ebp:
c026f470 esp: c000df70
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4, process nr:
4, stackpage=c000d000)
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: Stack: c2293a40 c026f470 c229397c
c009e740 c01243a5 c009e740 c2293920 c2293920
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: c2293a40 c0124cbf c2293920
c2293920 c026f470 000000f9 00000030 c000c000
Jul 1 05:07:59 cr957697-a kernel: c011a452 c026f470 00000010
00000006 c011f112 00000006 00000030 00000000
Jul 1 05:08:00 cr957697-a kernel: Call Trace:
[put_unused_buffer_head+33/76] [try_to_free_buffers+75/132]
[shrink_mmap+
214/300] [do_try_to_free_pages+38/120] [tvecs+6990/31333]
[kswapd+83/196] [get_options+0/116]
Jul 1 05:08:00 cr957697-a kernel: [kernel_thread+35/48]
Jul 1 05:08:00 cr957697-a kernel: Code: 8b 69 08 81 fd 2b 2f c3 a5 0f
85 d9 00 00 00 8b 69 0c 85 ed
Jul 1 05:08:08 cr957697-a identd[6610]: Connection from localhost
Jul 1 05:08:08 cr957697-a identd[6610]: from: 127.0.0.1 ( localhost )
for: 4900, 25
Jul 1 05:08:33 cr957697-a kernel: Kernel panic: VFS: LRU block list
corrupted

$ sh scripts/ver_linux
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux cr957697-a 2.2.10 #9 Mon Jun 14 22:49:16 PDT 1999 i586 unknown
Kernel modules 2.1.121
Gnu C egcs-2.91.66
Binutils 2.9.1.0.23
Linux C Library 2.1.1
Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.1
Procps 2.0.2
Mount 2.9o
Net-tools 1.52
Kbd [option...]
Sh-utils 1.16
Modules Loaded nfs lockd sunrpc g_NCR5380 nls_iso8859-1
nls_cp437 vfat fat opl3 sb uart401 sound soundlow soundcore

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.10 (root@cr957697-a) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Mon Jun 14 22:49:16 PDT 1999

$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.2.10 (root@cr957697-a) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #9 Mon Jun 14 22:49:16 PDT 1999
[billk@cr957697-a linux]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 5
model : 4
model name : Pentium MMX
stepping : 4
cpu MHz : 200.457059
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
sep_bug : no
f00f_bug : yes
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 1
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 mmx
bogomips : 399.77

$ cat /proc/modules
nfs 29912 1 (autoclean)
lockd 30856 1 (autoclean) [nfs]
sunrpc 52548 1 (autoclean) [nfs lockd]
g_NCR5380 19324 0 (unused)
nls_iso8859-1 2020 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 3548 1 (autoclean)
vfat 11292 1 (autoclean)
fat 25632 1 (autoclean) [vfat]
opl3 11208 0
sb 33172 0
uart401 5968 0 [sb]
sound 57208 0 [opl3 sb uart401]
soundlow 300 0 [sound]
soundcore 2372 6 [sb sound]

$ cat /proc/scsi/scsi
Attached devices:
Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00
Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 1220S Rev: V1.3
Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02

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