Kernel stack dump

chitoiup · 2007-09-21 04:14:24

Hello,

This problem has been present since I assembled my computer. I have an AMD Sempron 2800 processor running Arch (xfce). The system freezes up when I either do intense work (watching a DVD or copying files over Samba) or after a really long time (~10 or so hours of uptime). I also tried a live distro with the same results.
Here is what I could find in kernel.log:

/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7fe397b8
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth printing eip:
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth c0109a82
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth *pde = 00000000
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth Oops: 0002 [#1]
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth PREEMPT SMP
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth Modules linked in: ipv6 nvidia(P) ext2 ppdev lp sg pcspkr parport_pc parport k8temp rtc_cmos ppp_generic rtc_core rtc_lib sr_mod cdrom serio_raw psmouse shpchp pci_hotplug i2c_nforce2 i2c_core amd64_agp agpgart tsdev joydev thermal evdev processor fan button battery ac snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mixer_oss snd soundcore ac97_bus tg3 slhc r8169 usbhid hid ff_memless usb_storage ide_core ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod ehci_hcd ohci_hcd usbcore sata_nv ata_generic pata_amd libata
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth CPU: 0
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth EIP: 0060:[<c0109a82>] Tainted: P VLI
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth EFLAGS: 00213246 (2.6.22-ARCH #1)
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth EIP is at save_i387+0x12/0x1e0
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth eax: bff1cbdc ebx: 00000001 ecx: f3260a70 edx: 00000000
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth esi: bff1cbdc edi: 00000000 ebp: bff1cbdc esp: f0d15e6c
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth Process X (pid: 5376, ti=f0d14000 task=f3260a70 task.ti=f0d14000)
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth Stack: c0142a63 bff1cb84 c046b920 c010352b 00000286 f3260a70 00000000 00000000
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth Call Trace:
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth [<c0142a63>] hrtimer_start+0xc3/0x130
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth [<c010352b>] setup_sigcontext+0x10b/0x190
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth [<c0103eb0>] do_notify_resume+0x610/0x720
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth [<c012f796>] do_setitimer+0x126/0x300
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth [<c0188cfb>] sys_select+0x4b/0x1b0
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth [<c010448a>] work_notifysig+0x13/0x19
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth =======================
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth Code: 21 15 80 98 41 c0 e8 4e 6b 01 00 90 83 c8 08 e8 55 6b 01 00 90 5f c3 66 90 83 ec 0c 31 d2 89 74 24 04 89 c6 64 8b 0d 00 80 46 c0 <89> 1c 24 89 7c 24 08 8b 41 0c f6 c4 20 0f 84 8b 00 00 00 80 e4
/var/log/kernel.log:Aug 25 17:58:51 opeth EIP: [<c0109a82>] save_i387+0x12/0x1e0 SS:ESP 0068:f0d15e6c

Also, what's really strange is that after the dump is displayed (no X running) I can still see some network traffic (iptables output).
Has anyone heard about this problem? Could a kernel developer point me in the right direction (based on the dump output)? Please let me know if you need more information.

Thank you very much!

chitoiup · 2007-09-23 22:49:14

Turns out the memory was bad. (memtest86 did not pick it up).

Replacing the memory also fixed my crashing Firefox problem.

Last edited by chitoiup (2007-09-23 22:49:48)

byte · 2007-09-23 23:22:18

Ya, great to know. ONE post is enough, seriously.

chitoiup · 2007-09-23 23:24:04

I know, just wanted to make people happy!

Arch Linux

#1 2007-09-21 04:14:24

Kernel stack dump

#2 2007-09-23 22:49:14

Re: Kernel stack dump

#3 2007-09-23 23:22:18

Re: Kernel stack dump

#4 2007-09-23 23:24:04

Re: Kernel stack dump

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