Hi Ben, thanks for the quick reply! On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 04:32, Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 16:17 +0200, Sandro Tosi wrote: >> Package: linux-2.6 >> Version: 2.6.32-35 >> Severity: important >> >> Hello, >> we've had several server-class machine (G6 and G7 HP Proliant blades) >> affected >> by the kernel bug mentioned in the subject. >> >> On the console we can see several several instances of the message: >> >> BUG: soft lockup - CPU#1 stuck for 61s! [kswapd0:188] >> >> and then the machine is freezed and need a hard reset. >> >> I've cut&pasted what's left from the kern.log (remotely logged on another >> machine) since I don't have access anymore to those files (plus a bit of >> anonymization about the network :)). >> >> It's an high priority for us to get it fixed so we can provide all the help >> you >> might need: just ask about it. >> >> I've googled a bit about the problem and found these references: >> >> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-kernel/2010/11/16/4646082/thread >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=649694 > [...] > > The error message you are seeing is not at all specific, so we should > not assume it has anything to do with the Red Hat bug report. > > Unfortunately your log shows almost no useful information; the call > traces have been lost. The only function that is mentioned in your log > is find_get_pages(), which is not present in any of the call traces in > the Red Hat bug report.
Oh I see - of course it would have been too easy :) > It may be that serial logging will be more reliable; could you enable a > serial console and try to capture the error log on another system? We've started the process to enable the serial console logging on the involved machines: do you have any tips that can speed up our operations team to enable it (in particular a way that could get us the messages we need)? Thank in advance, -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
