Re: Spontaneous Call Trace?

Nathan Straz (nstraz@sgi.com)
Mon, 4 Nov 2002 12:44:06 -0600


On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:15:01AM -0800, David Rees wrote:
> I just encountered a dual CPU machine running 2.4.18 with the NFS_ALL and
> xfs patch which spontaneously generated two complete call traces over the
> weekend. There was no Oops or kernel bug recorded in the syslog although
> syslog functionality remained intact. After this point functionality on the
> system was degraded (various processes were not accepting new connections)
> and we rebooted the system. We're planning on upgrading to 2.4.19 with the
> NFS_ALL and ext3-all patches ASAP.
>
> I've never seen this type of behavior before in my years of using Linux, has
> anyone else? BTW, sysrq is disabled on the machine...

Could you post the call traces? Also, do you see any relevant messages
in your log files? Perhaps there is a forced shutdown message.

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Nate Straz                                              nstraz@sgi.com
sgi, inc                                           http://www.sgi.com/
Linux Test Project                                  http://ltp.sf.net/
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