Hi, I'm running potato Linux cerber 2.2.19 #1 Sat Jun 9 13:04:06 EST 2001 i686 unknown
and I'm experiencing multiple very bad crashes. Everything started when I was uploading a big file on the server from a laptop connect the same 10Meg hub. The crash looked as follow : Call Trace: [<c012a795>] [<c011f36f>] [<c01241b7>] [<c026b2e4>] [<c0124287>] [<c010600°>] [<c0108c2b>] Code: 89 u0 34 c7 01 00 00 00 00 89 02 c7 41 34 00 00 00 00 ff 0d Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000020 current->tss.cr3 = 0a2f8000, %cr3 = 0a2f8000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c012a770>] EFLAGS: 00010203 eax: 00000005 ebx: c0515460 ecx: 00000005 edx: 0001ffd8 esi: 00000000 edi: cc01b130 ebp: c0515460 esp: ca457d98 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process wu-ftpd (pid: 307, process nr: 41, stackpage=ca457000) Stack: ca456000 00000005 c011f36f c0515460 00000005 0000001b 00000005 00000005 ca456000 c01241b7 00000005 00000005 ca456000 00000005 00000003 00070302 c0124c2c 00000005 00000000 00001000 00000003 00070302 c071c900 00362400 Call Trace: [<c011f36f>] [<c01241b7>] [<c0124c2c>] [<c012a648>] [<c012988d>] [<c0129a46>] [<c01452ae>] [<c01457f0>] [<c014599f>] [<c0143da0>] [<c0143b48>] [<c0158809>] [<c015891a>] [<c012812c>] [<c010a1e0>] Code: 83 7e 20 00 75 62 f6 46 18 46 75 5c 8b 76 14 39 fe 75 ed 90 The server was used as a router/firewall connected to a cable modem. The installation was not very stable and I rebooted a few times over the last month so I cannot say for sure that the problem wasn't there before. Whe nI rebooted it, I got some file system corruption ( I have 7 partitions for <root> /var /usr /tmp /home /opt <swap> ). The problem couldn't be corrected automatiquely and I went in single mode to run fsck manually. This lead to another crash which is perfectly reproducible. I first lost my /opt partition and after rebooting a few time, the /usr started to give the same problem. This crash looks as follows : Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999) e2fsck 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 /dev/hda7 contains a file system with errors, check forced. Pass 1: Checking inodes, blocks, and sizes Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 245c8b53 current->tss.cr3 = 0d269000, %cr3 = 0d269000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0129592>] EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 245c8b53 ebx: 0100ce40 ecx: 00012060 edx: 245c8b53 esi: 00000307 edi: 00040339 ebp: 00000400 esp: cd1dbce4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process fsck.ext2 (pid: 395, process nr: 49, stackpage=cd1db000) Stack: cd1dbebc cd1d0307 cd1dbea8 c010aff8 ccdb2c00 00367e00 0806acf0 c01295c4 00000307 00040339 00000400 00000000 c012993e 00000307 00040339 00000400 00000000 00000001 cd1dbebc cd1dbebc cca01950 c012cb46 00000307 00040339 Call Trace: [<c010aff8>] [<c01295c4>] [<c012993e>] [<c012cb46>] [<c011dbee>] [<c019b892>] [<c019ce50>] [<c011dc32>] [<c011371f>] [<c01137f2>] [<c0127dc4>] [<c0128029>] [<c010a1e0>] Code: 8b 12 39 78 04 75 f3 39 68 08 75 ee 66 39 70 0c 75 e8 89 c2 Warning... fsck.ext2 for device /dev/hda7 exited with signal 11. the versions used are shown here : cerber:/# fsck --version Parallelizing fsck version 1.18 (11-Nov-1999) cerber:/# wu-ftpd -V Version wu-2.6.0(1) Thu Feb 8 17:45:47 CET 2001 I can forward all the logs but I've allready tried to send it yesterday ( log.tgz) and it didn't come through. The server no longer exists, I remove the HD yesterday and put it on another pc and reinstall. The problem reappeared as soon as I put it back in place. I suppose this is a H/W problem, do you have any idea on the root cause of this ? Thanks in advance for your help, Vincent Guffens