Hello After 4 days of uptime the new 2.4.20 kernel with HTB3 (previously we used HTB2 and 2.4.9-31) oopsed and in short time I could not even ssh to the system. Here is the ksymoops filtered message: ksymoops 2.4.8 on i686 2.4.20-xfs. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.20-xfs/ (default) -m /usr/src/linux/System.map (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will assume that the log matches the kernel and modules that are running right now and I'll use the default options above for symbol resolution. If the current kernel and/or modules do not match the log, you can get more accurate output by telling me the kernel version and where to find map, modules, ksyms etc. ksymoops -h explains the options. Oops: 0000 CPU: 1 EIP: 0010:[<c021be25>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 000000b0 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c031ad88 edx: 000000b0 esi: edb63de0 edi: f5220880 ebp: f5220880 esp: edb63d98 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process tc (pid: 7596, stackpage=edb63000) Stack: f5220800 00001831 ede963a0 ede963a0 f5220880 00000003 f5220860 c0214115 f5220800 edb63de0 f69b3960 f2bc0140 ede963a0 f2bc0140 ede963b8 f28f95b0 f757e800 00001831 00000000 000002a5 000002a6 c0214004 f69b3960 ede963a0 Call Trace: [<c0214115>] [<c0214004>] [<c0221db7>] [<c0208bd9>] [<c0221b9b>] [<c0221bc2>] [<c0203c91>] [<c020510f>] [<c0210010>] [<c0228186>] [<c02281f0>] [<c0226ffa>] [<c0114515>] [<c02053ed>] [<c0106f17>] Code: 8b 03 0f 18 00 39 fb 75 c2 83 44 24 10 08 83 c5 08 ff 44 24 >>EIP; c021be25 <htb_walk+89/ad> <===== >>ecx; c031ad88 <irq_stat+28/400> >>esi; edb63de0 <_end+2d81f388/384c35a8> >>edi; f5220880 <_end+34edbe28/384c35a8> >>ebp; f5220880 <_end+34edbe28/384c35a8> >>esp; edb63d98 <_end+2d81f340/384c35a8> Trace; c0214115 <tc_dump_tclass+dd/130> Trace; c0214004 <qdisc_class_dump+0/34> Trace; c0221db7 <netlink_dump+7f/1d4> Trace; c0208bd9 <skb_free_datagram+1d/24> Trace; c0221b9b <netlink_recvmsg+b7/134> Trace; c0221bc2 <netlink_recvmsg+de/134> Trace; c0203c91 <sock_recvmsg+3d/ac> Trace; c020510f <sys_recvmsg+15b/204> Trace; c0210010 <.text.lock.neighbour+24a/34a> Trace; c0228186 <ip_forward+1a6/210> Trace; c02281f0 <ip_forward_finish+0/60> Trace; c0226ffa <ip_rcv+31a/3b0> Trace; c0114515 <schedule+49d/560> Trace; c02053ed <sys_socketcall+1f5/200> Trace; c0106f17 <system_call+33/38> Code; c021be25 <htb_walk+89/ad> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c021be25 <htb_walk+89/ad> <===== 0: 8b 03 mov (%ebx),%eax <===== Code; c021be27 <htb_walk+8b/ad> 2: 0f 18 00 prefetchnta (%eax) Code; c021be2a <htb_walk+8e/ad> 5: 39 fb cmp %edi,%ebx Code; c021be2c <htb_walk+90/ad> 7: 75 c2 jne ffffffcb <_EIP+0xffffffcb> c021bdf0 <htb_walk+54/ad> Code; c021be2e <htb_walk+92/ad> 9: 83 44 24 10 08 addl $0x8,0x10(%esp,1) Code; c021be33 <htb_walk+97/ad> e: 83 c5 08 add $0x8,%ebp Code; c021be36 <htb_walk+9a/ad> 11: ff 44 24 00 incl 0x0(%esp,1) 1 warning issued. Results may not be reliable. $ /usr/src/linux/scripts/ver_linux Linux htb 2.4.20-xfs #3 SMP Fri Jan 17 17:14:53 EET 2003 i686 unknown Gnu C 2.95.3 Gnu make 3.79.1 util-linux 2.11r mount 2.11r modutils 2.4.16 e2fsprogs 1.27 Linux C Library 2.2.5 Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.2.5 Procps 2.0.7 Net-tools 1.60 Kbd 1.06 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded sch_sfq e1000 $ cat /etc/fstab /dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0 /dev/sda2 / ext2 defaults 1 1 /dev/sda3 /var xfs defaults 0 0 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0 0 /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0 0 none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0 none /proc proc defaults 0 0 After the oops applications that were trying to write to the /var (xfs) partition were hanging in D state. We will reformat it and reboot with a vanilla 2.4.20 having the same config except the XFS filesystem. Help ? ---------------------------- Mihai RUSU Disclaimer: Any views or opinions presented within this e-mail are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of any company, unless otherwise specifically stated.