updatedb.mlocate ends with error message

[Axel Siebenwirth]

Binary package hint: mlocate

Description: Ubuntu 8.10
Release: 8.10

After a first run of updatedb.mlocate this night, I found the following error message in /var/log/messages this morning.

Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296105] updatedb.mloc D c0187063 0 16824 16818
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296110] f3a25d64 00000086 f3a25cec c0187063 f3a25d1c c0187345 00000010 f747bb9c
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296120] c0187063 f3a25d30 f564f110 0000e385 00000000 000000d0 00000000 f38bde00
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296129] c050f080 f67f4000 f3a24000 f564f388 c190bd00 00000000 00000000 c190bd00
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296138] Call Trace:
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296142] [<c0187063>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x13/0x20
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296153] [<c0187345>] ? mempool_alloc+0x35/0xf0
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296159] [<c0187063>] ? mempool_alloc_slab+0x13/0x20
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296165] [<c037cd1c>] io_schedule+0x2c/0x40
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296173] [<c0184a85>] sync_page+0x35/0x60
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296181] [<c037d1aa>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x4a/0x70
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296185] [<c0184a50>] ? sync_page+0x0/0x60
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296191] [<c0184612>] __lock_page+0x82/0x90
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296196] [<c0147500>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x60
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296202] [<c0194212>] lock_page+0x22/0x30
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296207] [<c019714a>] do_swap_page+0xca/0x360
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296212] [<c019339e>] ? page_address+0xe/0xe0
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296218] [<c01976cb>] handle_mm_fault+0x2eb/0x390
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296223] [<c01bac2e>] ? path_to_nameidata+0x1e/0x50
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296230] [<c0380c09>] do_page_fault+0x379/0x720
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296237] [<c0380890>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x720
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296242] [<c0254acf>] ? copy_to_user+0x10f/0x130
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296250] [<c01b57b9>] ? cp_new_stat64+0xe9/0x100
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296258] [<c02352c4>] ? aa_file_permission+0x14/0xc0
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296282] [<f89dcd00>] ? jfs_readdir+0x0/0xd50 [jfs]
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296308] [<c037d3c8>] ? mutex_unlock+0x8/0x20
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296313] [<c01bf5b0>] ? vfs_readdir+0x80/0xb0
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296319] [<c01bf280>] ? filldir64+0x0/0xf0
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296325] [<c01b3578>] ? fput+0x8/0x30
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296330] [<c01bf682>] ? sys_getdents64+0xa2/0xc0
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296335] [<c0380890>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x720
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296341] [<c037e9d2>] error_code+0x72/0x80
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296346] [<c0370000>] ? default_device_exit+0x70/0xb0
Oct 26 08:58:30 neon kernel: [60446.296352] =======================

mlocate:
  Installed: 0.20-2ubuntu1
  Candidate: 0.20-2ubuntu1
  Version table:
 *** 0.20-2ubuntu1 0
        500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com intrepid/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

This crash in fact appears to come from the kernel; updatedb.mlocate was the userspace process running at the time, but in general a reasonably innocuous process like this should not be able to cause the kernel to crash. Reassigning.

[Nicolas Borboën (ponsfrilus)]

I got same error due to a wifi wireless card (http://www.trendnet.com/products/proddetail.asp?prod=215_TEW-421PC)

[kernel-janitor (kernel-janitor)]

Hi Axel,

This bug was reported a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue? Can you try with the latest development release of Ubuntu? ISO CD images are available from http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic .

If it remains an issue, could you run the following command from a Terminal (Applications->Accessories->Terminal). It will automatically gather and attach updated debug information to this report.

apport-collect -p linux 289411

Also, if you could test the latest upstream kernel available that would be great. It will allow additional upstream developers to examine the issue. Refer to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KernelMainlineBuilds . Once you've tested the upstream kernel, please remove the 'needs-upstream-testing' tag. This can be done by clicking on the yellow pencil icon next to the tag located at the bottom of the bug description and deleting the 'needs-upstream-testing' text. Please let us know your results.

Thanks in advance.

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[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu release http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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[Hubert FONGARNAND (hfongarnand)]

I've the same problem each 15 days...
I'm running Ubuntu Server 10.04.1 on an ProLiant DL360 G4

ubdatedb.mlocate becomes a zombie process and the server becomes very very slow...

dmesg :

[1198680.716590] INFO: task updatedb.mlocat:11762 blocked for more than 120 seconds.
[1198680.716867] "echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/hung_task_timeout_secs" disables this message.
[1198680.717144] updatedb.mloc D 0000897c 0 11762 11753 0x00000000
[1198680.717152] dd7b1e68 00000086 eca8c000 0000897c 00000000 c088c4c0 e9a75bec c088c4c0
[1198680.717162] 2013f193 00044201 c088c4c0 c088c4c0 e9a75bec c088c4c0 c088c4c0 cac37000
[1198680.717171] 00000000 00044201 e9a75940 c56094c0 e9a75940 dd7b1eb4 dd7b1e78 c05b150a
[1198680.717180] Call Trace:
[1198680.717194] [<c05b150a>] io_schedule+0x3a/0x60
[1198680.717205] [<c01d2e3d>] sync_page+0x3d/0x50
[1198680.717210] [<c05b1b57>] __wait_on_bit_lock+0x47/0x90
[1198680.717215] [<c01d2e00>] ? sync_page+0x0/0x50
[1198680.717219] [<c01d2dce>] __lock_page+0x7e/0x90
[1198680.717224] [<c016fcc0>] ? wake_bit_function+0x0/0x50
[1198680.717229] [<c01efe05>] do_swap_page+0x545/0x570
[1198680.717234] [<c01f01c7>] handle_mm_fault+0x397/0x4a0
[1198680.717239] [<c05b568d>] do_page_fault+0x10d/0x3a0
[1198680.717244] [<c05b5580>] ? do_page_fault+0x0/0x3a0
[1198680.717248] [<c05b3543>] error_code+0x73/0x80

[Hubert FONGARNAND (hfongarnand)]

mount :
rpc_pipefs on /var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs type rpc_pipefs (rw)
/dev/mapper/lxlyodev30-root on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /sys/fs/fuse/connections type fusectl (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/debug type debugfs (rw)
none on /sys/kernel/security type securityfs (rw)
none on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
none on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,noexec,nosuid,gid=5,mode=0620)
none on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,nodev)
none on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
none on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
none on /lib/init/rw type tmpfs (rw,nosuid,mode=0755)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
/dev/sda1 on /mnt/ext type ext3 (rw)
/dev/loop0 on /mnt/quotapart type xfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,pquota)
nfsd on /proc/fs/nfsd type nfsd (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)

[Brad Figg (brad-figg)]

This bug was filed against a series that is no longer supported and so is being marked as Won't Fix. If this issue still exists in supported series, ple
ase file a new bug.