Re: Antwort: Re: Oops in Kernel 2.4.21-rc1

Carl-Daniel Hailfinger
2003-05-27T13:48:53Z

> could that be the process mandb and aaa_base which where affected by the
> oops? How to disable this "feature"?

Open /etc/rc.config and try to find something like REINIT_MANDB and
DELETE_OLD_CATMAN and RUN_UPDATEDB. Set all of them to "no".

> Werner.Beck@Lidl.de wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I encountered a Kernel oops on two different PCs, both a configured
>>identical. The system uses an ISDN connection to an Internet ISP and then
>>establishes a VPN tunnel based on PPTP.
>>As far as I can see in /var/log/messages the problem occurred on both
>>system at the same time at 00:15, but not at the same day and not every
>>day. No special program is running at that time. Basically it is a SuSE
>>7.3 distribution, I made a Kernel upgrade.
>>Hardware is a Fujitsu Siemens N300 PC with an IDE (7200 Rpm), Intel 845GI
>>Motherboard, an ISDN PBX connected via USB to dial-up, the connection
>>wasn't established when the system oopsed.
>>Attached are some information.

Are you sure that you used the right System.map? Was this the first
Oops? Only the first Oops of a kernel is meaningful. All Oopses after
that are mostly useless for tracking down the bug.

ksymoops 2.4.2 on i686 2.4.21-rc1. Options used
-V (default)
-k /proc/ksyms (default)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/ (default)
-m /boot/System.map (specified)

Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_build_dmatable not
found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_destroy_dmatable
not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_dma_intr not found
in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_get_best_pio_mode
not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol
GPLONLY_ide_pci_register_driver not found in System.map. Ignoring
ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol
GPLONLY_ide_pci_unregister_driver not found in System.map. Ignoring
ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_pio_timings not
found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_set_xfer_rate not
found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_setup_dma not
found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_setup_pci_device
not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol GPLONLY_ide_setup_pci_devices
not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry
Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol
GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_expect_find_get not found in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o.
Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/ker
Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol
GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_expect_put not found in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o.
Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/kernel/n
Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol
GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_find_get not found in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o.
Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/kernel/net
Warning (compare_maps): ip_conntrack symbol GPLONLY_ip_conntrack_put not
found in
/lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/kernel/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack.o.
Ignoring /lib/modules/2.4.21-rc1/kernel/net/ipv4
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000000
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: c012bb98
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: *pde = 00000000
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: Oops: 0000
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: CPU: 0
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: EIP: 0010:[kmem_cache_reap+212/504]
Not tainted
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010007
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx:
c12efea0 edx: c12efeb0
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000002 ebp:
00000004 esp: cf731f58
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5,
stackpage=cf731000)
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: Stack: 00000020 000001d0 00000020
00000006 c12efea0 c02f56ac 00000000 00000000
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: 00000000 00000000 c012c9b8
00000006 000001d0 c02b6ed4 00000000 c02b6ed4
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: c012ca52 00000020 c02b6ed4
00000001 cf730000 c012cb55 c02b6e20 00000000
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: Call Trace: [shrink_caches+28/132]
[try_to_free_pages_zone+50/80] [kswapd_balance_pgdat+69/144]
[kswapd_balance+22/44] [kswapd+163/204]
May 27 00:15:10 DE-BC4212 kernel: Code: 8b 00 47 39 d0 75 f9 89 fa 89 f1
d3 e2 85 db 74 14 8d 04 95
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386

Code; 00000000 Before first symbol
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; 00000000 Before first symbol
0: 8b 00 mov (%eax),%eax
Code; 00000002 Before first symbol
2: 47 inc %edi
Code; 00000002 Before first symbol
3: 39 d0 cmp %edx,%eax
Code; 00000004 Before first symbol
5: 75 f9 jne 0 <_EIP>
Code; 00000006 Before first symbol
7: 89 fa mov %edi,%edx
Code; 00000008 Before first symbol
9: 89 f1 mov %esi,%ecx
Code; 0000000a Before first symbol
b: d3 e2 shl %cl,%edx
Code; 0000000c Before first symbol
d: 85 db test %ebx,%ebx
Code; 0000000e Before first symbol
f: 74 14 je 25 <_EIP+0x25> 00000024 Before
first symbol
Code; 00000010 Before first symbol
11: 8d 04 95 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(,%edx,4),%eax

Regards,
Carl-Daniel