Re: BUG 2.3.23-pre5 locks up

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Thu, 21 Oct 1999 04:55:49 -0400


Alexander Viro wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> > Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > > With a fairly standard .config, 2.3.23-pre5 locks up after a few minutes
> > > of usage.
> >
> > Some messages in the log I missed:
> >
> > Oct 21 03:27:25 chief kernel: kernel BUG at filemap.c:65!
> [snip]
>
> Impressive. I got something interesting quite near that place - in
> pagemap.h:102 (inode's page list being nonempty with i_nrpages==0).
> And it's a UP box - SMP races have nothing with it. -pre4. I'm trying to
> cactch it right now. _Very_ reproducible - as the matter of fact it hits
> before the sucker gets to spawning getty. init=/bin/sh is your friend ;-/

FAT may be broken too. There are some compile warnings related to the
new mm changes, which could potentially signal that something is
broken. Also, when compiled as a module, depmod fails because of
unrecognized symbol 'console_loglevel'.

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