From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932108AbWH1Uuh (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:50:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932109AbWH1Uug (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:50:36 -0400 Received: from dsl092-068-022.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net ([66.92.68.22]:55521 "EHLO george.mindlace.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932108AbWH1Uuf (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:50:35 -0400 Message-ID: <44F356C3.3040806@mindlace.net> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:49:07 -0400 From: emf User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: emf CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, c-d.hailfinger.kernel.2004@gmx.net Subject: Re: segfaults, kernel panic using forcedeth nvidia 4 References: <44F06BB0.4090200@mindlace.net> In-Reply-To: <44F06BB0.4090200@mindlace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 66.92.68.253 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: i@mindlace.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on george.mindlace.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org OK, I've got some oops output... if someone could give me the faintest idea as to what is wrong, I would be much obliged. http://mindlace.net/tmp/latest_segfault.txt emf wrote: > Hello! > > I'm using debian's 2.6.17-2-amd64 (after having these issues with 2.6.16). > > I'm running software raid 5 and LVM on the partition in question; the > machine is connected to my server via gigabit ethernet over the onboard > nforce4 ethernet- my motherboard is Gigabyte GA-M51GM-S2G Socket AM2 > NVIDIA GeForce 6100, and the CPU is a AMD Sempron 64 2800+. > > When I try to rsync from my old server, I get user-land segfaults (bash > and sh, mostly) and the machine hangs. This happens with straight scp as > well, and it is 100% replicable. The error messages look like: > > sh[5325]: segfault at 0000000081cc893a rip 00002ae181c2bf02 rsp > 00007fffff927c58 error 4 > > I've now successfully tried copying a large number of files via a > machine connected through a 100mbit connection, without issue. > > This leads me to think that it's forcedeth having the problem, but I had > also thought that perhaps I'm asking too much of the md/lvm subsystem. > > I've ordered another gigabit ethernet card and a new AMD64x2 cpu, so I > should be able to test these issues more cleanly. > > In the meantime, is there anything I can do to diagnose these issues? > > Thanks (and please cc me; I'm not a kernel-type by default.) > > ~ethan fremen >