Why does my woody system keep crashing?

[Kimball Larsen]

It is a kernel I built myself using the debian way. :)  I had to build a
new one, becuase I need RAID and IPTables support, which does not seem to
come with their stock 2.4.x series of kernels...

Am I wrong on this?

--Kimball



Roberto Mello said:
> 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.
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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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