Jack Neely wrote: > Folks, > > I have a RHEL 3 production Cyrus IMAP server that has kernel paniced > twice in as many weeks with something similar to the below. The /imap > partition (where the IO was in question) is about 98% full with about > 6.2G free and is hosted on a fiber connected EMC Clariion lun. > Currently running kernel 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp. > > I know things are old here, and the machine is on the upgrade list, but > I need to do due diligence to figure out how serious this error is. > Does anyone have any advice why this is happening? > > Thanks, > Jack Neely > That's not only an old distro, but an un-updated installation. I'd get the latest RHEL3 kernel and peruse the changelog, for starters, to see if it looks like this might have been fixed (although I don't see anything offhand). -Eric > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 > printing eip: > f88d2863 > *pde = 299d3001 > *pte = 00000000 > Oops: 0002 > audit autofs openafs e1000 iptable_filter ip_tables floppy microcode emcphr emcpmpap emcpmpaa emcpmpc emcpmp sg emcp emcpsf loop lvm-mod keybdev mousedev hid > CPU: 0 > EIP: 0060:[<f88d2863>] Tainted: P > EFLAGS: 00010213 > > EIP is at ext3_orphan_del [ext3] 0x73 (2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp/i686) > eax: c520d360 ebx: e3fc8900 ecx: e3fc8aac edx: 00000000 > esi: 00000000 edi: c520d000 ebp: c520d360 esp: eed8fddc > ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 > Process imapd (pid: 7628, stackpage=eed8f000) > Stack: e4de9940 eed8e000 c69b6200 e9ffde00 f88b8445 000f8094 c520d0fc e1ee4e80 > 00000007 00000292 e3fc8900 00000000 eed8e000 f88cc72c c69b6200 e3fc8900 > e4de9940 eed8e000 e9ffde00 f88cc84c e4de9940 e3fc8900 ee6d7500 e3fc8900 > Call Trace: [<f88b8445>] journal_start_Rsmp_25661df5 [jbd] 0xa5 (0xeed8fdec) > [<f88cc72c>] start_transaction [ext3] 0x8c (0xeed8fe10) > [<f88cc84c>] ext3_delete_inode [ext3] 0x8c (0xeed8fe28) > [<f88cc7c0>] ext3_delete_inode [ext3] 0x0 (0xeed8fe3c) > [<c017ccd0>] iput [kernel] 0x150 (0xeed8fe44) > [<c0179afa>] dput [kernel] 0xca (0xeed8fe60) > [<c0161a5b>] __fput [kernel] 0xbb (0xeed8fe74) > [<c015fc0e>] filp_close [kernel] 0x8e (0xeed8fe90) > [<c012bf6c>] put_files_struct [kernel] 0x6c (0xeed8feac) > [<c012c85a>] do_exit [kernel] 0x1ba (0xeed8fec8) > [<c012cbbb>] do_group_exit [kernel] 0x8b (0xeed8fee4) > [<c013656b>] get_signal_to_deliver [kernel] 0x20b (0xeed8fef8) > [<c010bdd4>] do_signal [kernel] 0x64 (0xeed8ff20) > [<c0175a56>] sys_select [kernel] 0x296 (0xeed8ff60) > > Code: 89 42 04 89 10 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 89 8b ac 01 00 00 89 8b > > Kernel panic: Fatal exception > _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users
