Re: Kernel Bug at spinlock.h ?!

[ChristopherHuhn <c.huhn@gsi.de>]

Zwane Mwaikambo wrote:

>On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, ChristopherHuhn wrote:
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>>Feb 27 20:51:37 lxb039 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer 
>>dereference at virtual address 00000000
>>Feb 27 20:51:37 lxb039 kernel:  printing eip:
>>Feb 27 20:51:37 lxb039 kernel: 00000000
>>Feb 27 20:51:38 lxb039 kernel: Code:  Bad EIP value.
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>>Looks like a NFS problem, huh?
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>Is that absolutely the first oops? 
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It's the only one in the log file of that machine. I think it didn't die 
rigth after that.

>Looks valid, could you, if possible, 
>try running a newer 2.4 and we can debug from there.
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>Cheers,
>	Zwane
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Newer means 2.4.21pre, since we are running 2.4.20?
I assume that we will not upgrade the kernel before a new stable 
release, since it is - should be - a production environment.

We have some indications, that our whole problem might be related to 
kernel NFS and mixing between 2.2.21 and 2.4.20 in both directions.

I'll compile some more oopses and give you a report tomorrow.

Have a nice day,

Christopher