Re: Problem with kernels 2.3.43/4/5

[Rui Sousa]

Manfred Spraul wrote:
> 
> Rui Sousa wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm seeing programs failing with segmentation fault while loading.
> > I first noticed the problem with kernel-2.3.43.
> > I've seen it happen with netscape and vi, which work ok with other
> > kernel versions. Also the problem seems to happen while still executing
> > the ld-linux library code.
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > Dual PII, SMP kernel, 128 Mb.
> >
> 
> Ok, these kernel produce random segfaults on some SMP computers. Could
> you describe the problem: does netscape always crash, or only sometimes?

Immediately after a reboot the application may or may not crash (this seems
to be random). Once it starts crashing it's completely deterministic and always
crash at the same point, even across reboots (as observed by strace).
An application that runs OK immediately after reboot sometimes starts crashing
later on (less than an hour interval).

This is a Tyan Tiger 100 motherboard, IDE disk (8.3 Gb) only.

.config:

CONFIG_X86=y
CONFIG_ISA=y
CONFIG_UID16=y
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M686=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_PGE=y
CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_X86_IO_APIC=y
CONFIG_X86_LOCAL_APIC=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_NAMES=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_KCORE_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_S1_SLEEP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_NEW_DRIVE_LISTINGS=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_PIIX_TUNING=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE_MODES=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_PPP_ASYNC=m
CONFIG_PPP_DEFLATE=m
CONFIG_PPP_BSDCOMP=m
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=m
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_I2C=m
CONFIG_I2C_ALGOBIT=m
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_JOYSTICK=m
CONFIG_JOY_ANALOG=m
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m
CONFIG_AGP=m
CONFIG_AGP_INTEL=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION=y
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y

Rui Sousa