Comment 31 for bug 7168

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Date: Sun, 22 Aug 2004 15:04:19 +0300
From: Bozhan Boiadzhiev <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: after overload maybe?

Package: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686
Version: 2.4.26-4
Followup-For: Bug #255175

here is what happens after cron(checksecurity, faubackup):
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address e77dd630
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: printing eip:
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: c015385f
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: Oops: 0002
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: EIP: 0010:[prune_dcache+191/336]
Tainted: P
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: eax: df43ee90 ebx: df43ee78 ecx:
e77dd630 edx: c77dd630
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: esi: df43ee60 edi: c77dd620 ebp:
00003da3 esp: dfa77f18
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 4,
stackpage=dfa77000)
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: Stack: d724d8c0 df43e560 00000018
c1504530 c0266b58 0000340f c0153bd4 00007787
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: c0136956 00000006 000001d0
ffffffff 000001d0 00000018 0000001f 000001d0
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: c0266b58 c0266b58 c0136d3d
dfa77f84 000001d0 0000003c 00000020 c0136dc2
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: Call Trace:
[shrink_dcache_memory+36/64] [shrink_cache+358/944]
[shrink_caches+61/96] [try_to_free_pages_zone+98/256]
[kswapd_balance_pgdat+102/176]
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: [kswapd_balance+40/64]
[kswapd+152/192] [kswapd+0/192] [rest_init+0/64]
[arch_kernel_thread+46/64] [kswapd+0/192]
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel:
Aug 22 07:37:57 carredas kernel: Code: 89 11 89 40 04 89 43 18 8b 46 4c
85 c0 74 07 8b 50 14 85 d2

and kswapd die defunc

machine still works but produces mesages like this when using dselect
for example:
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
at virtual address ebaff2f0
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: printing eip:
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: c015381e
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: *pde = 00000000
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: Oops: 0002
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: CPU: 0
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: EIP: 0010:[prune_dcache+126/336]
Tainted: P
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: eax: d042b7b0 ebx: d042b7b8 ecx:
ebaff2f0 edx: dfb56fc8
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: esi: d042b7a0 edi: c9230280 ebp:
00006dbf esp: d34e1d60
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: Process apt-get (pid: 21264,
stackpage=d34e1000)
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: Stack: ccd15cc0 d042b720 00000005
c1513ce0 c0266b58 00002746 c0153bd4 0000af2e
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: c0136956 00000006 000001d2
ffffffff 000001d2 00000005 00000011 000001d2
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: c0266b58 c0266b58 c0136d3d
d34e1dcc 000001d2 0000003c 00000020 c0136dc2
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: Call Trace:
[shrink_dcache_memory+36/64] [shrink_cache+358/944]
[shrink_caches+61/96] [try_to_free_pages_zone+98/256]
[balance_classzone+66/480]
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: [__alloc_pages+376/640]
[dm-mod:__insmod_dm-mod_O/lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/m+-1479749/96]
[page_cache_read+121/208]
[dm-mod:__insmod_dm-mod_O/lib/modules/2.4.26-1-686/kernel/drivers/m+-1313264/96]
[read_cluster_nonblocking+57/80] [filemap_nopage+285/560]
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: [do_no_page+119/512]
[handle_mm_fault+119/256] [activate_page+172/192]
[do_page_fault+376/1261] [generic_file_read+183/432]
[file_read_actor+0/224]
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: [sys_read+247/320]
[do_page_fault+0/1261] [error_code+52/60]
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel:
Aug 21 12:13:28 carredas kernel: Code: 89 11 89 4a 04 8d 4b 08 89 40 04
8b 51 04 89 43 f8 8b 43 08

i can run again dselect without problem.

This is with this kernel with older 2.4.25 system just says Segmentation
fault for comands like w, tail... but not ps
This and bigger problems happens with newer kernels 2.6.5 and 2.6.7.
I think only kernel-2.4.24 didn't have such problems.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C

Versions of packages kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686 depends on:
ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities
ii fileutils 5.2.1-2 The GNU file management utilities
ii initrd-tools 0.1.71 tools to create initrd image for p
ii modutils 2.4.26-1 Linux module utilities

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