Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 Severity: critical
After today's kernel upgrade from the Etch security repository, I rebooted our server and watched the boot process via serial console tunneled through the IPMI BMC's Serial Over Lan feature. To my surprise, the kernel died with a null pointer dereference! The hardware is a Supermicro PDSMA+ with an AOC-IPMI20-E management card and a Core2 Quad processor. I am using the AMD64 version of Etch and everything else works fine. With the previous kernel version (2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4) even the serial console worked well, that's why I 'dared' watch the boot process like this. Kernel version linux-image-2.6.18-5-vserver-amd64 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5) also produces this bug. The error is reproducible: if I reboot the machine and the serial console is connected when the kernel starts after GRUB, it is definitely going to freeze. If I disconnect the console client and then reset the machine remotely via IPMI, it boots up well and functions as expected. I discovered this accidentally when I tried a reset without a connected serial console. I repeat: _there were *NO* problems with 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4_! Some information about the system and the bootlog comes: ---- /proc/cmdline root=LABEL=root ro console=ttyS1,19200n8r console=tty0 vga=extended elevator=deadline ---- /boot/grub/menu.lst , appropriate snippet title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64 root (hd0,0) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-amd64 root=LABEL=root ro console=ttyS1,19200n8r console=tty0 vga=extended elevator=deadline initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.18-5-amd64 savedefault ---- Kernel bootmessage, when ipmicli is already connected and working, ---- watching the whole reboot process initiated from SSH. The line after ---- 'Initializing CPU#2' is serial noise, doesn't have any effects on ---- the reboot process. ipmi>console You can press Ctrl-B to terminate Text Remote Console Redirection. Press [Enter] to continue... Connected to _XXXX_ at 19200 bps Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 _XXXX_ ttyS1 _XXXX_ login: xport_rdev(sde1) md: stopping all md devices. Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sde: Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdd: Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdc: Synchronizing SCSI cache for disk sdb: ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:0e:00.0 disabled ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:0d:00.0 disabled megaraid: flushing adapter 0...done Restarting system. . machine restart Phoenix cME(tm) TrustedCore(tm) Server Copyright 1985-2004 Phoenix Technologies Ltd. All Rights Reserved Supermicro PDSMi/PDSMA/PDSMi+/PDSMA+ BIOS Rev 1.2b CPU = 1 Processors Detected, Cores per Processor = 4 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU 2.40GHz FSB at 1066MHz Intel(R) Extended Memory 64 Technology. DRAM Type : DDR2-667 ECC Support 4095M System RAM Passed 4096K x 2 Cache SRAM Passed System BIOS shadowed Video BIOS shadowed Press <DEL> for SETUP Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64' 798912K upper memory) ÚÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄż ł Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64 ł ł Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64 (single-user mode) ł ł Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-vserver-amd64 ł ł Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-vserver-amd64 (single-user mode) ł ł Other operating systems: ł ł Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64 (on /dev/sda1) ł ł Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64 (single-user mode) (on /dev/s> ł ł ł Booting 'Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-5-amd64' root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-5-amd64 root=LABEL=root ro console=ttyS1,19200n8r console=tty0 vga=extended elevator=deadline [Linux-bzImage, setup=0x1e00, size=0x16f435] initrdootdata ok (command line is root=LABEL=root ro console=ttyS1,19200n8r console=tty0 vga=extended elevator=deadline ) Linux version 2.6.18-5-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)) #1 SMP Mon Dec 3 04:55:28 UTC 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009cc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009cc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 00000000e7ee0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 00000000e7ee0000 - 00000000e7ee9000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 00000000e7ee9000 - 00000000e7f00000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 00000000e7f00000 - 00000000e8000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000f0000000 - 00000000f4000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000000118000000 (usable) DMI present. No NUMA configuration found Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000000118000000 Bootmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000000118000000 ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled) Processor #0 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled) Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled) Processor #2 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled) Processor #3 6:15 APIC version 20 ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1]) ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0]) IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23 ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x05] address[0xfec10000] gsi_base[24]) IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 5, version 32, address 0xfec10000, GSI 24-47 ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge) ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level) Setting APIC routing to physical flat ACPI: HPET id: 0xffffffff base: 0xfed00000 Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information Allocating PCI resources starting at f5000000 (gap: f4000000:ac00000) SMP: Allowing 4 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 1031617 Kernel command line: root=LABEL=root ro console=ttyS1,19200n8r console=tty0 vga=extended elevator=deadline Initializing CPU#0 PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 32768 bytes) time.c: Using 14.318180 MHz WALL HPET GTOD HPET/TSC timer. time.c: Detected 2394.004 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x50 Dentry cache hash table entries: 524288 (order: 10, 4194304 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes) Checking aperture... PCI-DMA: Using software bounce buffering for IO (SWIOTLB) Placing software IO TLB between 0x1648000 - 0x5648000 Memory: 4048428k/4587520k available (1927k kernel code, 144324k reserved, 868k data, 176k init) Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4792.22 BogoMIPS (lpj=9584447) Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized SELinux: Disabled at boot. Capability LSM initialized Mount-cache hash table entries: 256 CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K using mwait in idle threads. CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 0 SMP alternatives: switching to UP code ACPI: Core revision 20060707 Using local APIC timer interrupts. result 16625033 Detected 16.625 MHz APIC timer. SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 1/4 APIC 0x1 Initializing CPU#1 Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4788.15 BogoMIPS (lpj=9576312) CPU: L1 I cache: 32K, L1 D cache: 32K CPU: L2 cache: 4096K CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0 CPU: Processor Core ID: 1 CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled (TM2) Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz stepping 0b SMP alternatives: switching to SMP code Booting processor 2/4 APIC 0x2 Initializing CPU#2 AUÍÍŃĽš95%ÝŃĄ˝˙OK.ššąQ5ŃąImer specHŹUĽĄ-UĽĄĺÍĽąAÉ˝ÍÍ˝É%UĽÉ˝ÍÍ˝É migration_cost=37,3568 checking if image is initramfs... it is Freeing initrd memory: 5647k freed NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: Using MMCONFIG at f0000000 PCI: No mmconfig possible on device f:0 ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00) PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1 PCI: PXH quirk detected, disabling MSI for SHPC device PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *12 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *5 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 10 *11 14 15) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs<7>Losing some ticks... checking if CPU frequency changed. 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 *10 11 14 15) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 14 devices usbcore: registered new driver usbfs usbcore: registered new driver hub PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a report hpet0: at MMIO 0xfed00000 (virtual 0xffffffffff5fe000), IRQs 2, 8, 0 hpet0: 3 64-bit timers, 14318180 Hz PCI-GART: No AMD northbridge found. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: disabled. PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:0a:01.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: ef200000-ef2fffff PREFETCH window: ef000000-ef0fffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:09:00.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: ef200000-ef2fffff PREFETCH window: ef000000-ef0fffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0 IO window: disabled. MEM window: ef100000-ef2fffff PREFETCH window: ef000000-ef0fffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4 IO window: 4000-4fff MEM window: ef300000-ef3fffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.5 IO window: 5000-5fff MEM window: ef500000-ef5fffff PREFETCH window: disabled. PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:0f:00.0 PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: 6000-6fff MEM window: ef400000-ef4fffff PREFETCH window: ee000000-eeffffff GSI 16 sharing vector 0xA9 and IRQ 16 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:01.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 GSI 17 sharing vector 0xB1 and IRQ 17 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.5[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 NET: Registered protocol family 2 IP route cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes) TCP established hash table entrscsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 1 [Phy 1] for non-raid devices scsi[0]: scanning scsi channel 2 [virtual] for logical drives Vendor: MegaRAID Model: LD 0 RAID1 139G Rev: 414H Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02 SCSI device sda: 285155328 512-byte hdwr sectors (146000 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assuming drive cache: write through SCSI device sda: 285155328 512-byte hdwr sectors (146000 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: asking for cache data failed sda: assuming drive cache: write through sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sda4 sd 0:2:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu0Ist] [20060707] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu1Ist] [20060707] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu2Ist] [20060707] ACPI (exconfig-0455): Dynamic SSDT Load - OemId [ PmRef] OemTableId [ Cpu3Ist] [20060707] ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x4 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x5 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x6 ACPI Exception (acpi_processor-0681): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is not present [20060707] ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x7 Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 7.1.9-k4-NAPI Copyright (c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation. ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0d:00.0[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx e1000: 0000:0d:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 00:30:48:92:15:f8 e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0e:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177 e1000: 0000:0e:00.0: e1000_probe: (PCI Express:2.5Gb/s:Width x1) 00:30:48:92:15:f9 e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection GSI 19 sharing vector 0xE9 and IRQ 19 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 233 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 233, io mem 0xef800000 ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 233 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 233, io base 0x00003000 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected GSI 20 sharing vector 0x32 and IRQ 20 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 50 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 50, io base 0x00003020 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected GSI 21 sharing vector 0x3A and IRQ 21 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 58 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 58, io base 0x00003040 usb usb4: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 169 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5 uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 169, io base 0x00003060 usb usb5: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 5-0:1.0: 2 ports detected ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 50 ahci 0000:00:1f.2: AHCI 0001.0100 32 slots 4 ports 3 Gata3: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata3.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 586072368 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata3.00: ata3: dev 0 multi count 16 ata3.00: configured for UDMA/133 scsi4 : ahci ata4: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 300) ata4.00: ATA-7, max UDMA/133, 586072368 sectors: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32) ata4.00: ata4: dev 0 multi count 16 ata4.00: configured for UDMA/133 Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD800JD-08MS Rev: 10.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdb: 156312576 512-byte hdwr sectors (80032 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdb: 156312576 512-byte hdwr sectors (80032 MB) sdb: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdb: drive cache: write back sdb: sdb1 sd 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdb Vendor: ATA Model: WDC WD800JD-08MS Rev: 10.0 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdc: 156312576 512-byte hdwr sectors (80032 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdc: 156312576 512-byte hdwr sectors (80032 MB) sdc: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdc: drive cache: write back sdc: sdc1 sd 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdc Vendor: ATA Model: ST3300831AS Rev: 3.03 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sdd: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back SCSI device sdd: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB) sdd: Write Protect is off SCSI device sdd: drive cache: write back sdd: sdd1 sd 3:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sdd Vendor: ATA Model: ST3300831AS Rev: 3.02 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 SCSI device sde: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB) sde: Write Protect is off SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back SCSI device sde: 586072368 512-byte hdwr sectors (300069 MB) sde: Write Protect is off SCSI device sde: drive cache: write back sde: sde1 sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sde ICH7: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 58 ICH7: chipset revision 1 ICH7: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0x30a0-0x30a7, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x30a8-0x30af, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio md: md driver 0.90.3 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27 md: bitmap version 4.39 md: raid1 personality registered for level 1 md: md0 stopped. md: bind<sde1> md: bind<sdd1> raid1: raid set md0 active with 2 out of 2 mirrors device-mapper: ioctl: 4.7.0-ioctl (2006-06-24) initialised: [EMAIL PROTECTED] kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. scsi 0:0:6:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 3 sd 0:2:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 0 sd 1:0:0:0: Att]XËĽÍŃĺÁ˙intel_rng: FWH not detected pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 shpchp: Standard Hot Plug PCI Controller Driver version: 0.4 input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input0 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 50 Adding 1951888k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1951888k EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal loop: AES key scrubbing enabled loop: loaded (max 8 devices) ipmi message handler version 39.0 ipmi device interface Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown via sys_reboot. IPMI System Interface driver. ipmi_si: Trying SMBIOS-specified KCS state machine at I/O address 0xca8, slave address 0x20, irq 0 ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x0015d9, prod_id: 0x1134, dev_id: 0x20) IPMI poweroff: Unable to find a poweroff function that will work, giving up IPMI KCS interface initialized IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized kjournald starting. Commit interval 30 seconds EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with writeback data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 15 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 30 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-2, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with journal data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 10 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-3, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with journal data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-4, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-5, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with journal data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on dm-6, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdb1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS on sdc1, internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 1000 Mbps Full Duplex ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30. ip_conntrack version 2.4 (8192 buckets, 65536 max) - 304 bytes per conntrack ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: [<ffffffff8036782b>] check_modem_status+0x80/0xf3 PGD 109e7c067 PUD 10d1d2067 PMD 0 Oops: 0000 [1] SMP CPU 0 Modules linked in: button ac battery ipt_REJECT ipt_recent xt_tcpudp xt_state ip_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables quota_v2 ipmi_watchdog ipmi_si ipmi_poweroff ipmi_devintf ipmi_msghandler loop evdev i2c_i801 pcspkr serio_raw i2c_core shpchp pci_hotplug sg ext3 jbd mbcache dm_mirror dm_snapshot dm_mod raid1 md_mod piix ahci generic libata ide_core uhci_hcd ehci_hcd e1000 thermal processor fan megaraid_mbox megaraid_mm sd_mod scsi_mod Pid: 3213, comm: sadc Not tainted 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1 RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8036782b>] [<ffffffff8036782b>] check_modem_status+0x80/0xf3 RSP: 0018:ffff810109e95da8 EFLAGS: 00010002 RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffffffff8050d540 RCX: 0000000000000000 RDX: 00000000000002fe RSI: 0000000000000006 RDI: ffffffff8050d540 RBP: 0000000000000011 R08: 00000000ffffffff R09: 0000000000000020 R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff810109f7104a R13: 0000000000000003 R14: ffffffff8041a804 R15: 000000000000004a FS: 00002b8285cae6d0(0000) GS:ffffffff80521000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000010af4a000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Process sadc (pid: 3213, threadinfo ffff810109e94000, task ffff8101120017b0) Stack: 0000000000000286 ffffffff8050d540 0000000000000022 ffffffff803678a7 ffffffff8050d540 ffffffff80364181 0000000000000002 0000000000000000 ffff810112626840 000000008020cc89 0000000000000001 0000000000008001 Call Trace: [<ffffffff803678a7>] serial8250_get_mctrl+0x9/0x3a [<ffffffff80364181>] uart_read_proc+0x121/0x418 [<ffffffff8023839a>] proc_file_read+0xfa/0x247 [<ffffffff8020af98>] vfs_read+0xcb/0x171 [<ffffffff8020fbbf>] sys_read+0x45/0x6e [<ffffffff80257b56>] system_call+0x7e/0x83 Code: 48 8b 10 ff 43 30 f6 40 1b 04 74 48 89 e8 83 e0 10 f6 82 2c RIP [<ffffffff8036782b>] check_modem_status+0x80/0xf3 RSP <ffff810109e95da8> CR2: 0000000000000000 Text Remote Console Redirection is terminated by Ctrl-B. ipmi>close ~$ If you need any further information, please contact me on my mail address. This is a production machine, so I am not going to reboot it for further experiments. Regards, Gábor