From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from babel.hpcc.noaa.gov ([140.90.74.62]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Lukb-00052l-00 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:29:21 -0500 Received: from babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id gBB0TSYu010467 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:29:28 -0500 Received: from localhost (jwantz@localhost) by babel.hpcc.noaa.gov (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id gBB0TSYH010462 for ; Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:29:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 19:29:28 -0500 (EST) From: jwantz@hpcc.noaa.gov To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Subject: Kernel bug--machine lockup Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca Errors-To: speakup-admin@braille.uwo.ca X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hi, I came home this afternoon and experienced something that I have never seen with linux. My computer was completely dead, no speech and nonresponsive keys. I thought it was WINDBLOWS! Here is the pertinent information I obtained when I looked at /var/log/messages: Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:133! Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: nls_iso8859-1 sr_mod snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-emu10k1-synth snd-emux-synt Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: CPU: 0 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: EIP is at __free_pages_ok [kernel] 0x5c (2.4.18-14) Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: eax: 00017818 ebx: c1524570 ecx: c1000030 edx: 00000000 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 17818067 esp: c56e7de8 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: Process sendmail (pid: 31337, stackpage=c56e7000) Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: Stack: c02ff4c0 00000002 00000246 00001000 c02ff4c0 00000000 c02ff4c0 c013c580 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: d5bfd4b8 00000000 d594c9b4 0000b000 0000c000 17818067 c012bbe0 c1524570 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: 00000001 c24ed55c c24ede40 0000000c 40400000 cfc81404 4026e000 00000000 Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: Call Trace: [] page_remove_rmap [kernel] 0x80 (0xc56e7e04)) Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: [] zap_pte_range [kernel] 0xf0 (0xc56e7e20)) Dec 10 16:27:00 pcp218693pcs kernel: [] do_zap_page_range [kernel] 0x8b (0xc56e7e48)) Do you think this is worth passing on to the kernel development team? I am running Redhat 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-14. Jim Wantz WB0TFK