Upgrading kernel

[Jan Agermose]

I have been handed over the "control" of a debian server - and of couse now it startes to misbehave... (and I know nothing about debian - sad to say )   I does not really crash totally, as I can still ping the server - but looking at the server from the outside, this is really not much of a server :-)   After booting the system the log has one or even more entries like the bellow - some one said it might be a nvidia driver problem?   I read that debian has an "apt-get upgrade" option, but   * how safe is it to run this? Will I have a system ready to boot and reuse or might I end up with a system, that has a lot of stuff not working?   I would like to keep the upgrade to a minimum - the kernel or modules or what is needed - but still its a one shut deal - I really need a server that will run afterwards :-) Is this possible? Is it safe to upgrade a kernel using apt-get (if this is the way to do it anyways)   Or does the log snipets below point to a different problem at all?   What is really the minimum updateing I need to do  - as Im affraid of doing to mush with a system that acually did do the job up until now!   Can this problem be related to using all memory and staring to use the swap partition? At this time I stopped using swap in case this was true (Im desperat!)...   -- Jan   :::::::::::::::::   Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: esi: c15cce80   edi: 00000000   ebp: c03278c0   esp: d5cf1e60 Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018 Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: Process checkpassword (pid: 14678, stackpage=d5cf1000) Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: Stack: c0327a1c 000001ff 00000000 c03278a8 00017ee2 00000282 00000000 c03278a8 Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel:        c012abe2 000001d2 dcf6bcf0 00000001 dcf6bcf0 c0327a18 000001d2 c16bbe80 Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel:        c012aa42 00104025 c0122738 40023000 dcf6bcf0 00000001 c5e80f50 c01227df Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: Call Trace: [__alloc_pages+54/352] [_alloc_pages+22/24] [do_anonymous_page+48/164] [do_no_page+51/284] [handle_mm_fault+82/180] Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel:    [do_page_fault+331/1096] [do_page_fault+0/1096] [do_munmap+547/560] [sys_munmap+52/60] [error_code+52/60] Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha kernel: Code: 0f 0b 8b 56 04 8b 06 89 50 04 89 02 89 f3 8b 44 24 1c 2b 98 Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha qmail: 1065535515.571835 tcpserver: end 14677 status 0 Oct  7 16:05:15 alpha qmail: 1065535515.571997 tcpserver: status: 0/40 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha qmail: 1065535516.367434 tcpserver: status: 1/40 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha qmail: 1065535516.367722 tcpserver: pid 14679 from 193.88.175.85 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha qmail: 1065535516.367930 tcpserver: ok 14679 alpha.csite.com:213.150.56.214:25 :193.88.175.85::1668 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel:  invalid operand: 0000 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: CPU:    0 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: EIP:    0010:[rmqueue+89/424]    Tainted: P Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: EFLAGS: 00010006 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: eax: c15cce80   ebx: c0327a1c   ecx: c03278a8   edx: c03278a8 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: esi: c15cce80   edi: 00000000   ebp: c03278c0   esp: d5cf1e60 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: Process checkpassword (pid: 14680, stackpage=d5cf1000) Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: Stack: c0327a1c 000001ff 00000000 c03278a8 0001c51d 00000282 00000000 c03278a8 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel:        c012abe2 000001d2 dcf6bcf0 00000001 dcf6bcf0 c0327a18 000001d2 00000287 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel:        c012aa42 00104025 c0122738 40023000 dcf6bcf0 00000001 c5e80870 c01227df Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: Call Trace: [__alloc_pages+54/352] [_alloc_pages+22/24] [do_anonymous_page+48/164] [do_no_page+51/284] [handle_mm_fault+82/180] Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel:    [do_page_fault+331/1096] [do_page_fault+0/1096] [net_rx_action+311/524] [do_softirq+90/164] [do_IRQ+150/168] [error_code+52/60] Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha kernel: Code: 0f 0b 8b 56 04 8b 06 89 50 04 89 02 89 f3 8b 44 24 1c 2b 98 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha qmail: 1065535516.482592 tcpserver: end 14679 status 0 Oct  7 16:05:16 alpha qmail: 1065535516.482755 tcpserver: status: 0/40   Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel:  printing eip: Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: 65107434 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: Oops: 0000 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: CPU:    0 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: EIP:    0010:[zisofs_cleanup+1695576948/-1072693440]    Tainted: P Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: eax: ffffffff   ebx: dd1c2000   ecx: 00000018   edx: 00000018 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: 65107434   ebp: c17e0c01   esp: dd1c3e0c Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: Process httpd (pid: 29393, stackpage=dd1c3000) Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: Stack: c0106e6c dd1c3e18 00000000 dc657572 d75569bf 0000221a c17e0c01 dc657570 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel:        c17e0c01 d75569c0 00000018 00000018 ffffffff c0006fa6 00000010 00010286 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel:        dc657572 c17e0c01 dc657570 c17e0c94 c0159641 00000010 00010286 cbde9760 Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: Call Trace: [error_code+52/60] [_text_lock_transaction+304/383] [journal_get_write_access+55/88] [ext3_reserve_inode_write+49/168] [start_this_handle+278/344] Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel:    [ext3_mark_inode_dirty+26/52] [ext3_dirty_inode+134/196] [__mark_inode_dirty+46/120] [update_atime+75/80] [do_generic_file_read+1023/1036] [generic_file_read+161/332] Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel:    [file_read_actor+0/96] [sys_read+149/224] [system_call+51/56] Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: Oct  7 23:33:08 alpha kernel: Code:  Bad EIP value.