I don't know enough about it to know whether this is a known problem (I
couldn't make much sense of what I found on Google), but it seems to be
a journal-related issue. Is it likely that data has been corrupted?
Do I need to take any action?
2.6.12-9-amd64-k8-smp, Ubuntu 5.10, dual opteron 2GB
Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841032] Unable to handle kernel
NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000000 RIP: Jan 23 03:08:22
infinity kernel: [24686.841039] <ffffffff8810d3e2>
{:jbd:journal_commit_transaction+2594} Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841064] PGD 6ea20067 PUD 6ea97067 PMD 0 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity
kernel: [24686.841069] Oops: 0000 [1] SMP Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity
kernel: [24686.841073] CPU 1 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841075] Modules linked in: ext2 binfmt_misc ipt_limit
iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ipt_TOS ipt_REJECT
ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter
ip_tables ipv6 pcspkr snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi
snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec
snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device bt878 snd_bt87x snd_pcm_oss
snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc tuner
tvaudio bttv video_buf firmware_class i2c_algo_bit v4l2_common
btcx_risc tveeprom videodev nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat dm_mod
tsdev evdev nvidia w83627hf eeprom i2c_sensor i2c_isa i2c_viapro
i2c_core rtc psmouse mousedev parport_pc lp parport sd_mod md ext3 jbd
mbcache thermal processor fan ide_cd cdrom usb_storage scsi_mod
ehci_hcd uhci_hcd tg3 pdc202xx_new ide_disk ide_generic via82cxxx
ide_core unix vesafb capability commoncap vga16fb vgastate softcursor
cfbimgblt cfbfillrect cfbcopyarea fbcon tileblit font bitblit Jan 23
03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841128] Pid: 3318, comm: kjournald
Tainted: P 2.6.12-9-amd64-k8-smp Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841132] RIP: 0010:[_end+130728930/2132406272] <ffffffff8810d3e2>
{:jbd:journal_commit_transaction+2594} Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841146] RSP: 0018:ffff81007cf47d88 EFLAGS: 00010286 Jan 23
03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841150] RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX:
0000000000000000 RCX: 0000000000000035 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841155] RDX: ffff81004d06ada0 RSI: ffff810071d0bb88 RDI:
ffff810071d0bb88 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841159] RBP:
ffff81004d06ae00 R08: 0000000000000015 R09: 0000000000000000 Jan 23
03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841162] R10: 0000000000000000 R11:
0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000000 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841166] R13: ffff810064213d40 R14: ffff81007d4c4400 R15:
0000000000000000 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841171] FS:
00002aaaadd8ebe0(0000) GS:ffffffff804286c0(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841175] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES:
0000 CR0: 000000008005003b Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841179] CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 000000006e619000 CR4:
00000000000006e0 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841184]
Process kjournald (pid: 3318, threadinfo ffff81007cf46000, task
ffff81007d6090b0) Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841187]
Stack: ffff81007d4c4424 ffff81007d4c455c 00000fd400000000
ffff810058bb002c Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841196]
0000000002c0e4a0 ffff81007d628000 ffff81004d06ace0 0000000000001163 Jan
23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841203] ffffffff8032c340
0000007300000003 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841208] Call
Trace:<ffffffff8012e413>{__wake_up+67}
<ffffffff8810fb54>{:jbd:kjournald
+276} Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841260]
<ffffffff80148e10>{autoremove_wake_function+0} <ffffffff80148e10>
{autoremove_wake_function+0} Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841283] <ffffffff8810fa20>{:jbd:commit_timeout+0}
<ffffffff8010e61b>{child_rip+8} Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841318] <ffffffff8810fa40>{:jbd:kjournald+0}
<ffffffff8010e613>{child_rip+0} Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841350] Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841357] Jan 23
03:08:22 infinity kernel: [24686.841358] Code: 8b 03 a8 04 74 18 8b 03
a8 04 75 07 8b 43 18 85 c0 75 e0 48 Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841369] RIP <ffffffff8810d3e2>{:jbd:journal_commit_transaction
+2594} RSP <ffff81007cf47d88> Jan 23 03:08:22 infinity kernel:
[24686.841382] CR2: 0000000000000000
Thanks
--
Richard Kimber
http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/