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From: Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: oops when using git gc --auto
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:01:17 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877igqdv8y.fsf@ossystems.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zltnjys1.fsf@ossystems.com.br> (Otavio Salvador's message of "Tue\, 26 Feb 2008 16\:36\:14 -0300")

Otavio Salvador <otavio@debian.org> writes:

> Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> writes:
>
>> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 00:22, Otavio Salvador wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Today I got this oops, someone has an idea of what's going wrong?
>>>
>>> Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000020000000000 RIP:
>>>  [<ffffffff802735c3>] find_get_pages+0x3c/0x69
>>
>> At this point, the most likely candidate is a memory corruption
>> error, probably hardware. Can you run memtest86 for a few hours
>> to get a bit more confidence in the hw (preferably overnight)?
>>
>> I did recently see another quite similar corruption in the
>> pagecache radix-tree, though. Coincidence maybe?
>
> I let it running at lunch time and all went OK. I've also let burnP6
> running later and nothing happened. Looks like hw is OK.
>
> I've just got another oops, with same kernel.
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff83006d922370 RIP: 
>  [<ffffffff8027a79b>] shrink_page_list+0x16f/0x570

In the end, it was a motherboard issue.

Thanks for the help!

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      reply	other threads:[~2008-02-27 22:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-02-26 13:22 oops when using git gc --auto Otavio Salvador
2008-02-26 13:33 ` Nick Piggin
2008-02-26 14:21   ` Otavio Salvador
2008-02-26 19:36   ` Otavio Salvador
2008-02-27 20:01     ` Otavio Salvador [this message]

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