On Mon, 09 Jun 2008, Arno Griffioen wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.25-2-amd64 > Severity: critical > Justification: causes serious data loss
overflated as usual > There seems to be a major memory/file corruption issue in 2.6.25. > > I have tried running it after my system had been running on 2.6.24-1-amd64 > for quite some time without any issues, but after a few days various > programs would start to dump core spontaneously. > > Messages in the log showed this: > > Jun 1 17:03:42 deepthought kernel: [161459.115199] clamscan[17219] > general protection ip:7ffa5ef9c058 sp:7fff67942cf0 error:0 in > libc-2.7.so[7ffa5ef2d000+13e000] > Jun 1 17:05:39 deepthought kernel: [161571.811295] clamscan[17224] > general protection ip:7f6737a3117f sp:7fff3fed8320 error:0 in > libclamav.so.4.0.1[7f6737a24000+8b000] > Jun 1 17:10:49 deepthought kernel: [164336.907368] clamscan[17247] > general protection ip:7f4f8b028c65 sp:7fff939cde00 error:0 in > libc-2.7.so[7f4f8afb8000+13e000] > Jun 1 17:18:20 deepthought kernel: [164783.967493] clamscan[17283] > general protection ip:7fb8baf9a17f sp:7fffc3440890 error:0 in > libclamav.so.4.0.1[7fb8baf8d000+8b000] > Jun 1 17:23:07 deepthought kernel: [165067.957304] clamscan[17289] > general protection ip:7f9fa51afb83 sp:7fffad64d3b0 error:0 in > libclamav.so.4.0.1[7f9fa51a0000+8b000] > > I also noticed file and filesystem corruption starting to pop up in > various places. > > Eg. an 'apt-get update' would generate a package file wth various parts > corrupted. > > This is on a twin dual-core Xeon machine with 4Gb of RAM and using the > AMD64 version. > > I also tried the 32-bit 2.6.25 version under a KVM virtual machine, but > it also crashed after a few days of runing. > > Since switching back to 2.6.24 the system is stable once more and also > the virtual machine in the KVM works fine with a 2.6.24. > > No other changes were made to the system. Just purge 2.6.25, reboot into > 2.6.24 and it's OK. try out latest 2.6.26-rc5 see trunk apt lines on http://wiki.debian.org/DebianKernel thanks for feedback. -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
