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join the lkml (linux kernel mailing list) and let them know about it? |
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On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 7:43 AM, David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>wrote: |
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> For about a week, my workstation has been crashing every day or so. |
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> Typically it happens late at night while BackupPC is backing up a hard |
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> drive. With "tail -F /var/log/messages" running I saw EXT3 mentioned a |
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> few days ago and started suspecting a hard drive problem. |
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> Last night it happened again. This time my "tail ..." window was |
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> opened full screen so I saw all the messages and know more. Here's |
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> part of what I wrote down (until I got tired of writing): |
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> BUG unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000008 |
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> IP ffffff8027ce14 free_block+0xb4/0x160 |
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> PGD 11b638067 PUD 11b631067 PMD 0 |
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> Oops 0002[1]SMP |
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> ... |
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> Call Trace |
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> 8027cac0 cache_flusharray+0x60/0xe0 |
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> 8027cc46 kmem_cache_free |
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> I'm running a 2.6.25-gentoo-r7 |
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> To learn more about what's happening (and to more easily record |
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> all the kernel messages), I'm now running "tail -F /var/log/messages" |
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> from a second machine (via an SSH session). |
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> Questions: |
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> Is there a better way to capture the full BUG output??? |
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> Once I have the full BUG output, what's the next useful thing to do? |
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> Thanks! |
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> David |
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