Why does my woody system keep crashing?

[Hans Fugal]

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So which kernel did you compile in? Are you using anything marked as
experimental?

* Kimball Larsen [Sat,  5 Apr 2003 at 12:52 -0700]
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> 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...
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> Am I wrong on this?
>=20
> --Kimball
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> 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=3D-104, setting invalidApr  5 00:30:09 holodeck kernel:
> >> smb_retry: successful, new pid=3D8229, generation=3D3Apr  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
> >
> > --
> > +----|        Roberto Mello   -    http://www.brasileiro.net/  |------+
> > +       Computer Science Graduate Student, Utah State University      +
> > +       USU Free Software & GNU/Linux Club - http://fslc.usu.edu/     +
> > They said I was nobody. Nobody is perfect. So I'm perfect.
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