<html><head><style type='text/css'>body { font-family: 'Arial'; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000}</style></head><body><br>----- Original Message -----<br>From: "Neil Wilson" <neilw@dcdata.co.za><br>To: "MailScanner discussion" <mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info><br>Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2007 4:33:17 PM (GMT+1000) Australia/Brisbane<br>Subject: Kernel crash, MailScanner mentioned<br><br>Hi guys,<br><br>I realise this might not be caused by MailScanner, but I've got a server <br>running SLES 10 SP1 i586 that's crashing nearly every night.<br><br>In the logs I see it does mentioned something about MS, but not sure if <br>this means that it's actually MS causing the problem.<br><br>The kernel it's using is "Linux mail 2.6.16.46-0.12-smp #1 SMP Thu May <br>17 14:00:09 UTC 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux"<br><br>If anyone could point me in the right direction I'll be more than grateful.<br><br>I can't run an update on the SLES as it's not registered yet, as the <br>client only wants to register in the new year, but needed the server <br>straight away.<br><br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: kernel BUG at mm/page_alloc.c:295!<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: SMP<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: last sysfs file: <br>/firmware/edd/int13_dev80/extensions<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: Modules linked in: xt_limit xt_state <br>xt_MARK ipt_MASQUERADE xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT ipt_LOG iptable_mangle <br>iptable_nat iptable_filt<br>er ip_tables x_tables ip_nat_ftp ip_nat ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack <br>nfnetlink af_packet cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_powersave <br>speedstep_cent<br>rino freq_table button battery ac loop dm_mod hw_random i915 drm e1000 <br>intel_agp shpchp pci_hotplug uhci_hcd ehci_hcd ahci agpgart ohci1394 <br>i2c_i801 i2c_core<br> pata_jmicron usbcore ieee1394 sundance mii parport_pc lp parport ext3 <br>jbd edd fan thermal processor pata_marvell sg ata_piix libata generic <br>sd_mod scsi_mod<br>ide_disk ide_core<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: CPU: 1<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0149b23>] Not tainted VLI<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: EFLAGS: 00210002 (2.6.16.46-0.12-smp #1)<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: EIP is at free_pages_bulk+0x12c/0x1e4<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: eax: 00000001 ebx: c13cdb00 ecx: <br>c13cdb00 edx: 00000001<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: esi: 000006d9 edi: c13cdb20 ebp: <br>00000000 esp: e84fdd80<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: Process MailScanner (pid: 24234, <br>threadinfo=e84fc000 task=dfe9eb70)<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: Stack: <0>c030188c 0000001c c0301780 <br>00000000 00000001 00000001 c14d4aa0 c0301880<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: 00200202 c0301780 c0149cba 00000000 <br>00000003 e84fdde8 e84fddd8 0000000d<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: c0149ce1 c14db140 c0301780 c17de14c <br>c014c1d9 0000000e 0000000e 00000000<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: Call Trace:<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0149cba>] free_hot_cold_page+0xdf/0xee<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0149ce1>] __pagevec_free+0x18/0x22<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c014c1d9>] release_pages+0xff/0x13f<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0156c49>] <br>free_pages_and_swap_cache+0x6b/0x7f<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0152bdb>] exit_mmap+0xb0/0xda<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c011e2d7>] mmput+0x20/0x76<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0169945>] flush_old_exec+0x6dd/0x90d<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0160cb4>] vfs_read+0x110/0x150<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0168f67>] kernel_read+0x32/0x3c<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0184111>] load_elf_binary+0x438/0x12f7<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c014a3cd>] __alloc_pages+0x57/0x2a5<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c01c1c9d>] copy_from_user+0x36/0x62<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c01c1c9d>] copy_from_user+0x36/0x62<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0168d0f>] search_binary_handler+0xa2/0x1fe<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c016a6c5>] do_execve+0x16c/0x215<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0102884>] sys_execve+0x2b/0x68<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: [<c0103bdb>] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x79<br>Nov 20 19:51:39 mail kernel: Code: c1 e0 05 8d 1c 07 8b 03 a9 00 00 08 <br>00 74 7c 8b 43 0c 39 e8 89 44 24 0c 75 71 8b 03 89 d9 f6 c4 40 74 02 89 <br>e9 8b 41 04 40<br> 74 08 <0f> 0b 27 01 eb 7f 2c c0 8d 4b 18 8b 53 18 8b 41 04 89 42 04 89<br><br>Thanks<br><br>Neil<br><br>PS: Accidentally subscribed to announce instead of the mailscanner list, <br>and when canceling after my subscription I hit a mailman bug.<br><br>"Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5<br>We're sorry, we hit a bug!<br>Please inform the webmaster for this site of this problem. Printing of <br>traceback and other system information has been explicitly inhibited, <br>but the webmaster can find this information in the Mailman error logs"<br><br>-- <br>This email and all contents are subject to the following disclaimer:<br>http://www.dcdata.co.za/emaildisclaimer.html<br><br>-- <br>MailScanner mailing list<br>mailscanner@lists.mailscanner.info<br>http://lists.mailscanner.info/mailman/listinfo/mailscanner<br><br>Before posting, read http://wiki.mailscanner.info/posting<br><br>Support MailScanner development - buy the book off the website! <br><br>-- <br>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br><br><br><br>I'd run memtest on the server for as long as you can, e.g. 12 hours.<br><br><br></body><br />--
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