Crash due to kernel bug

Crash due to kernel bug

[CMC]

The RH7.1 system with 2.4.2 kernel crashed and the /var/log/messages had
this report.

Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: kernel BUG at inode.c:527!
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: invalid operand: 0000
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: CPU:    0
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: EIP:    0010:[prune_icache+148/272]
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0146954>]
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: eax: 0000001b   ebx: c94b00e8   ecx: fffffffe
edx: 00000000
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: esi: c94b00e0   edi: c899cde8   ebp: c147bf98
esp: c147bf74
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4,
stackpage=c147b000)
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel: Stack: c0214b5b c0214c3e 0000020f 00000132
c94b0
2c8 cd246de8 00010f00 00000004
Nov  4 08:55:19 mercury kernel:        00000020 00000004 c0146a05 000002b0
c012cba6 00000004 00000004 c144be6c

proc/modules
tulip                  38096   2 (autoclean)
8139too                16480   1 (autoclean)
usb-uhci               20848   0 (unused)
usbcore                49632   1 [usb-uhci]
sd_mod                 11808   0 (unused)
scsi_mod               94304   1 [sd_mod]

/proc/cpuinfo

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 5
model name      : Pentium II (Deschutes)
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 400.915
cache size      : 512 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov
pat p
se36 mmx fxsr
bogomips        : 799.53


What could be the reason for this crash.?


regards,
Nagamani.
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Re: Crash due to kernel bug

[Mike Fedyk]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2001 at 10:21:48AM +0530, CMC wrote:
> 
> The RH7.1 system with 2.4.2 kernel crashed and the /var/log/messages had
> this report.
> 

Filter it through ksymoops with the correct System.map file and resend.

Can you reproduce with a newer kernel?