Why does my woody system keep crashing?

[Roberto Mello]

On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 11:47:42AM -0700, Kimball Larsen wrote:
> Hey everyone - I have a problem.
> 
> My Debian (woody) server keeps kernel panicing... and I can't figure out
> why.  I have not made any really significant tweaks to the system software
> wise, and I have swapped out every single piece of hardware except for the
> ethernet cards.  I'm at wits end.. every 3-5 days, the server locks up...
> :(  Oddly enough, I can still ping it when it is locked up, and the
> firewall still does the nat and port forwarding to the internal network..
> but I can't ssh to the box, nor can I get it to do anything else useful..
> I am force to do a hard restart.

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> to a broadcast.Apr  5 00:30:04 holodeck kernel: smb_trans2_request: result=-104, setting
> invalidApr  5 00:30:09 holodeck kernel: smb_retry: successful, new pid=8229,
> generation=3Apr  5 00:36:31 holodeck kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:360!

Definitely seems to be a kernel bug. What kernel is this? You might want
to upgrade.

It's easy to build a newer kernel with Debian's make-kpkg utility.

-Roberto

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