Similar symptoms (system becomes unresponsive) but different
circumstances - when unpacking linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 package.
The error occurred twice on my machine during exactly the same
operation. Both times a reboot was necessary to get machine back to normal.
# uname -a
Linux m 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Jan 10 18:29:31 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/debian_version
5.0
APT prefers stable
Processor: AMD Duron(tm) Processor, 1,1GHz
Memory: 384 MB
Here's a console trace (this is a second attempt, thus the message
'serious warning: files list for package ... missing'), kernel messages
compacted for readability.
############## begin console trace ##############
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B/397kB of archives.
After this operation, 9552kB of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ...
dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package
`linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686' missing, assuming package has no files
currently installed.
68104 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 2.6.26-13 (using
.../linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686_2.6.26-13_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement linux-headers-2.6.26-1-686 ...
Message from sysl...@m at Tue Mar 10 20:04:58 2009 ...
m kernel: [22101.228948] ------------[ cut here ]------------
m kernel: [22101.229033] invalid opcode: 0000 [#1] SMP
m kernel: [22101.229799] Process dpkg (pid: 16765, ti=d61ee000
task=d6143940 task.ti=d61ee000)
m kernel: [22101.229834] Stack: d76ef66c d75a1300 d75a1300 0000004b
d61efd54 d892f8e7 d75a1300 d75a1300
m kernel: [22101.229909] 0000004b c018442f d75a1308 c0184953
d77f10f4 00000000 00000080 00000080
m kernel: [22101.229979] c0184b5e 00000080 d4200e50 d75f8a98
00000708 c03565a4 00000080 001200d2
m kernel: [22101.230051] Call Trace:
m kernel: [22101.230094] [<d892f8e7>] ext3_dquot_drop+0x29/0x5d [ext3]
m kernel: [22101.230182] [<c018442f>] clear_inode+0x83/0xe3
m kernel: [22101.230230] [<c0184953>] dispose_list+0x46/0xc2
m kernel: [22101.230270] [<c0184b5e>] shrink_icache_memory+0x18f/0x1b7
m kernel: [22101.230315] [<c015f158>] shrink_slab+0xd3/0x132
m kernel: [22101.230364] [<c015f3e0>] try_to_free_pages+0x229/0x31f
m kernel: [22101.230417] [<c015e1e0>] isolate_pages_global+0x0/0x42
m kernel: [22101.230457] [<c015b259>] __alloc_pages_internal+0x213/0x34e
m kernel: [22101.230508] [<c015b3a0>] __alloc_pages+0x7/0x9
m kernel: [22101.230541] [<c0156b85>] __grab_cache_page+0x2b/0x5b
m kernel: [22101.230585] [<d89286c6>] ext3_write_begin+0x51/0x16d [ext3]
m kernel: [22101.230644] [<c0156be9>] pagecache_write_begin+0x34/0x10b
m kernel: [22101.230695] [<c017a06d>] __page_symlink+0x3a/0xb9
m kernel: [22101.230748] [<d8873af1>] journal_start+0x7d/0xa9 [jbd]
m kernel: [22101.230793] [<d892ba5f>] ext3_symlink+0xe6/0x18a [ext3]
m kernel: [22101.230853] [<c017ab82>] vfs_symlink+0xa4/0x104
m kernel: [22101.230890] [<c017cac3>] sys_symlinkat+0x87/0xc8
m kernel: [22101.230936] [<c0115b4f>] do_page_fault+0x29b/0x5b8
m kernel: [22101.232010] [<c017cb13>] sys_symlink+0xf/0x13
m kernel: [22101.232010] [<c0103853>] sysenter_past_esp+0x78/0xb1
m kernel: [22101.232010] =======================
m kernel: [22101.232010] Code: 56 89 c6 53 bb e2 ff ff ff 83 ec 04 64 a1
00 40 3b c0 8b 80 60 03 00 00 85 f6 89 04 24 74 7e 85 c0 74 11 89 c3 8b
00 39 30 74 04 <0f> 0b eb fe ff 43 08 eb 69 a1 08 ca 87 d8 ba 50 00 00
00 bb f4
m kernel: [22101.232010] EIP: [<d8873aa3>] journal_start+0x2f/0xa9 [jbd]
SS:ESP 0068:d61efd0c
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg received a segmentation fault.
Creating symlink...
apt-get install build-essential
E: dpkg was interrupted, you must manually run 'dpkg --configure -a' to
correct the problem.
############## end console trace ##############
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Jacek Midura
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