Michael, This may or may not help but I know there were some spinlock issues prior to the RHEL 4 update 2 kernels. I don't have the links to the patches offhand. In my case, I ran into the spinlock bug when using ipsec and netfilter. Gary > -----Original Message----- > From: netfilter-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:netfilter- > bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael D. Berger > Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 10:04 AM > To: netfilter > Subject: Kernel panic - not syncing > > On: > Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS release 4(Nahant) > Kernel 2.6.9-5.EL on an i686 > I get: > Kernel panic - not syncing: net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c:yyy: > spin_lock(net/ipv4/tcp_minisocks.c:xxxxxxxx) already locked by > net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c/1790 > > previous now > yyy 211 422 > xxxxxxxx f5fee080 f62db080 >
