I have a Dell PE2650, Dual Xeon, 1G memory and several software raid1 partitions, ext3. Main duties include NFS, DHCP and samba. A Fedora kernel 2.6.10-1.747_FC3smp which includes 2.6.10-ac10.
This system panics frequently, between several hours to several days. It does not seem to be related to load. Hardware and memory tests indicate a good system. Panic messages are similar to: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000038 printing eip: f882940f *pde = 379c9001 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: iptable_filter ip_tables nfsd exportfs md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 i2c_dev i2c_core nfs lockd sunrpc microcode dm_mod video button battery ac cfi_probe gen_probe scb2_flash mtdcore chipreg map_funcs tg3 floppy sg ext3 jbd raid1 aic7xxx sd_mod scsi_mod CPU: 3 EIP: 0060:[<f882940f>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.10-1.747_FC3smp) EIP is at raid1_end_write_request+0x8e/0xb2 [raid1] eax: 00000000 ebx: f7dda400 ecx: f79e78a0 edx: 00000000 esi: 00000018 edi: f7dd6e00 ebp: f7dda400 esp: c03aef18 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process swapper (pid: 0, threadinfo=c03ae000 task=f7f5fa40) Stack: f7fbd100 00001000 f8829381 00000000 c01564ce 00001000 f7fbd100 00000000 c03aef60 c0217b6f f7bcca24 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001000 f7bcca24 f7d4b33c f78f4080 00000001 f88435ec 00000001 e4d10b80 f7bcca24 f78f4080 Call Trace: [<f8829381>] raid1_end_write_request+0x0/0xb2 [raid1] [<c01564ce>] bio_endio+0x50/0x55 [<c0217b6f>] __end_that_request_first+0xea/0x1ab [<f88435ec>] scsi_end_request+0x1b/0x9d [scsi_mod] [<f88439a7>] scsi_io_completion+0x206/0x40f [scsi_mod] [<c011a394>] __wake_up+0x29/0x3c [<f883fadd>] scsi_finish_command+0xad/0xb1 [scsi_mod] [<f883fa02>] scsi_softirq+0xb6/0xbe [scsi_mod] [<c0121f60>] __do_softirq+0x4c/0xb1 [<c0105d9f>] do_softirq+0x41/0x48 ======================= [<c0105cd0>] do_IRQ+0x74/0x7e [<c010467e>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20 [<c0102018>] default_idle+0x0/0x2f [<c02b007b>] xfrm_sk_policy_lookup+0x2cd/0x355 [<c0102041>] default_idle+0x29/0x2f [<c01020a0>] cpu_idle+0x26/0x3b Code: 53 08 89 44 0e 04 89 54 0e 08 f0 ff 0b 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 0f 8b 43 14 e8 bf 5f a3 c7 89 d8 e8 15 fe ff ff 8b 47 04 8b 1f 8b 04 06 <8b> 48 38 f0 ff 48 48 0f 94 c2 84 d2 74 0d 85 c9 74 09 f0 0f ba <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt -- Norman Gaywood, Systems Administrator School of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +61 (0)2 6773 2412 http://turing.une.edu.au/~norm Fax: +61 (0)2 6773 3312 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/