Erik Mouw wrote: > On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:36:52PM +0200, Loiseleur Michel wrote: > >> I work with a Red Hat AS kernel (2.6.9-11-smp) on a bi-proc AMD. >> > > Ask Red Hat for support. > I am the support, or more correct, I try to be it :). >> I had a kernel panic this night, you will find an extract of the >> /var/log/messages in the attached file. The server is a backup one, and >> it was during really big batch processing. you will see too that's SMART >> seems wrong, the hdds are not so hot. >> > > The temperature attribute doesn't have to tell the temperature in > degrees Celcius (or Fahrenheit). There's sometimes a little calculation > needed to get to something humans understand. hddtemp can do that for > you. > thanks for the tip. > >> I have looked at the code and all seems to be in fs/ext3. It "seems" >> that during an " ext3_ordered_writepage" in fs/ext3/inode.c:1262, >> the fs tries to walk along the >> page (walk_page_buffers) but he can't because the "page" is null. that's >> what the trace told me. >> >> My first idea is to correct it with something like this : >> if (!page) >> goto out_fail; >> >> >> But I feel that's not the good way or maybe my thought is wrong. Is >> there an ext3 maintener in the plane ? :) >> > > There are, but... > > >> Aug 4 01:08:09 ju kernel: Modules linked in: nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc basp(U) md5 ipv6 i2c_dev i2c_core dm_mod button battery ac hw_random e1000 floppy ext3 jbd raid1 aic7xxx sd_mod scsi_mod >> Aug 4 01:08:09 ju kernel: CPU: 0 >> Aug 4 01:08:09 ju kernel: EIP: 0060:[<f891bc87>] Tainted: P VLI >> > > Your kernel is tainted by a proprietary module (I guess the "basp" > module) so it's impossible to debug your problem. The only one able to > debug your problem is the vendor of that proprietary module. > Oops, I didn't notice it. After some search, I saw it's a module for load-balancing over network made by broadcom. basp stands for "Broadcom Advanced Server Program". More info here : http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/linuxasp996release.txt. It don't seem to be related to my problem, but I will remove it, I don't need it anyway. Thanks for your advice, -- Loiseleur Michel - TM2L (08000LINUX) LINAGORA 27, rue de Berri 1er étage 75008 PARIS Tél : 01 58 18 68 28 Fax : 01 58 18 68 29 "Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes" - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
