From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761754AbYBZOTU (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:19:20 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752977AbYBZOTL (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:19:11 -0500 Received: from spiffy.freedom.ind.br ([201.35.65.91]:44483 "EHLO freedom.ind.br" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752589AbYBZOTK (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 09:19:10 -0500 To: Nick Piggin Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops when using git gc --auto References: <87tzjvhmy7.fsf@ossystems.com.br> <200802270033.31297.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> From: Otavio Salvador Organization: O.S. Systems Ltda. X-URL: http://www.debian.org/~otavio/ X-Attribution: O.S. Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 11:21:39 -0300 In-Reply-To: <200802270033.31297.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> (Nick Piggin's message of "Wed\, 27 Feb 2008 00\:33\:31 +1100") Message-ID: <87lk57yf0s.fsf@ossystems.com.br> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Nick Piggin 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: >> [] 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)? Those memories are new, but I can try. No problem. Will get back to you by tomorrow. > I did recently see another quite similar corruption in the > pagecache radix-tree, though. Coincidence maybe? I hope not. -- O T A V I O S A L V A D O R --------------------------------------------- E-mail: otavio@debian.org UIN: 5906116 GNU/Linux User: 239058 GPG ID: 49A5F855 Home Page: http://otavio.ossystems.com.br --------------------------------------------- "Microsoft sells you Windows ... Linux gives you the whole house."