On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 05:12:49AM -0000, Richard Corner wrote: > OK, since the early releases of Intrepid I have not had this particular > problem. Though there have been a lot of freezeups during boot on this > particular machine I have not seen the "Eeek!" message or the freezeups > while using the desktop. > > But today I upgraded to the following: > > Linux blackbox 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 21:57:00 UTC 2008 i686 > GNU/Linux > > and the error is back! Xubuntu booted fine then, as before with Hardy, > suddenly froze while I was using Firefox at the desktop. > > See the attached syslog: > > Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153965] Eeek! page_mapcount(page) > went negative! (-1) > Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153981] page pfn = a6ff3 > Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153986] page->flags = 80000068 > Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153993] page->count = 1 > Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.153997] page->mapping = f33734e1 > Nov 27 23:57:32 blackbox kernel: [ 174.154038] vma->vm_ops = 0x0
It seems that you have a relativly reproducible one here. As its so easy to trigger for you would you be able to try the newer kernel in -proposed, currently 2.6.27-10.20 and confirm if it is there too? -- Hardy and Intrepid freeze with kernel error: "Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/252977 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
