I have this problem with 2.6.15-26-686 and 2.6.16-686 (cusom) too: { cat messages messages.0 ; zcat messages.*.gz ; } | grep 'page allo'
Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] busybox: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x8020 Aug 9 08:54:33 Microstar kernel: [17179579.352000] busybox: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x8020 Aug 15 15:59:11 Microstar kernel: [17179580.184000] busybox: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x8020 Jul 30 12:09:32 Microstar kernel: busybox: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x8020 Some more details: Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] busybox: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x8020 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [__alloc_pages+535/800] __alloc_pages+0x217/0x320 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [get_zeroed_page+39/80] get_zeroed_page+0x27/0x50 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [alloc_data_pages+57/256] alloc_data_pages+0x39/0x100 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [swsusp_read+499/560] swsusp_read+0x1f3/0x230 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [software_resume+126/240] software_resume+0x7e/0xf0 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [resume_store+148/160] resume_store+0x94/0xa0 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [flush_write_buffer+55/64] flush_write_buffer+0x37/0x40 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [sysfs_write_file+92/144] sysfs_write_file+0x5c/0x90 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [vfs_write+214/432] vfs_write+0xd6/0x1b0 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [sys_write+75/128] sys_write+0x4b/0x80 Aug 23 09:39:02 Microstar kernel: [17179580.092000] [syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb I even made a package kernel-image-2.6.16-686 using Debians linux- tree-2.6.16 2.6.16-17 with config from linux-image-2.6.16-2-686 2.6.16-17, but got the same error (!) : Jul 30 12:09:32 Microstar kernel: busybox: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x8020 After this I replaced busybox (and initramfs) by versions from debian stable / backports: sudo apt-get install initramfs-tools/sarge-backports busybox-cvs-static sudo update-initramfs -u -v -k 2.6.15-26-686 result was again: Aug 15 15:59:11 Microstar kernel: [17179580.184000] busybox: page allocation failure. order:0, mode:0x8020 So I gave up and went back to normal packages and configurations :( -- resume: busybox: page allocation failure. https://launchpad.net/bugs/49332 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs