Kernel bug--machine lockup

[jwantz at hpcc.noaa.gov]

Hi,
Well, part 2 of the story is it has turned out to be severe hardware 
problems, probably a faulty power supply--the machine is totally dead 
now.

     Jim Wantz WB0TFK
On Tue, 10 Dec 2002 ccrawford at acb.org wrote:

> Is this the twilight zone?  I came home and found my linux box off.  
> Nobody here but the cat.  It booted fine, but wierdest thing.
> 
> -- charlie Crawford.
> On Tue, 10 
> Dec 2002 jwantz at hpcc.noaa.gov wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I came home this afternoon and experienced something that I have never 
> > seen with linux.  My computer was completely dead, no speech and 
> > nonresponsive keys.  I thought it was WINDBLOWS!
> > 
> > Here is the pertinent information I obtained when I looked at 
> > /var/log/messages:
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:133!
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: invalid operand: 0000
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: nls_iso8859-1 sr_mod snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synt
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: CPU:    0
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0136b4c>]    Not tainted
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: 
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: EIP is at __free_pages_ok [kernel] 0x5c (2.4.18-14)
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: eax: 00017818   ebx: c1524570   ecx: c1000030   edx: 00000000
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: 00000000   ebp: 17818067   esp: c56e7de8
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: Process sendmail (pid: 31337, stackpage=c56e7000)
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: Stack: c02ff4c0 00000002 00000246 00001000 c02ff4c0 00000000 c02ff4c0 c013c580 
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel:        d5bfd4b8 00000000 d594c9b4 0000b000 0000c000 17818067 c012bbe0 c1524570 
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel:        00000001 c24ed55c c24ede40 0000000c 40400000 cfc81404 4026e000 00000000 
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: Call Trace: [<c013c580>] page_remove_rmap [kernel] 0x80 (0xc56e7e04))
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: [<c012bbe0>] zap_pte_range [kernel] 0xf0 (0xc56e7e20))
> > Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: [<c012a1bb>] do_zap_page_range [kernel] 0x8b (0xc56e7e48))
> > Do you think this is worth passing on to the kernel development team?  I 
> > am running Redhat 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14.
> > 
> >      Jim Wantz WB0TFK
> > 
> > 
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