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I have been struggling to update my machines to fedora 7 with the
latest kernel. We are getting a crash of the kernel as shown below.<br>
<br>
This happens when we run a "yum upgrade" operation. Our repositories
are available on the local LAN segment and mounted via Autofs 5 over
NFS4. The system is generally stable using this configuration for other
purposes although we occasionally see the same failure when other
operations are running. I have been unable to find any reference to
this failure in association with this version of the kernel, although
similar failures were reported about six months ago for 2.6.17
pre-release kernels.<br>
<br>
Does anybody have any idea what is causing the failure, whether this is
something that there is a fix for, and whether other people are seeing
it and if so what work rounds they have used.<br>
<br>
Traceback on the console is as follows:<br>
<blockquote>BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address 0000000 c<br>
printing eip:<br>
f8cea941<br>
*pde = 24fd0067<br>
*pte = 00000000<br>
Oops: 0000 [#1]<br>
SMP<br>
last sysfs file: /kernel/uevent_seqnum<br>
Modules linked in: appletalk nfs nfsd exportfs lockd nfs_acl autofs4
rpcsec_gss_ krb5 auth_rpcgss des sunrpc bonding
ipv6 ext2 loop video sbs button dock battery ac
sr_mod cdrom ata_generic e100 mii parport_pc parport ata_piix i2c_piix4
seri o_raw rtc_cmos libata i2c_core e1000 floppy
sg dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_ mod sym53c8xx
scsi_transport_spi sd_mod scsi_mod raid456 xor raid1 ext3 jbd
mbca che ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd<br>
CPU: 2<br>
EIP: 0060:[<f8cea941>] Not tainted VLI<br>
EFLAGS: 00210246 (2.6.22.1-41.fc7 #1)<br>
EIP is at nfs_update_inode+0xba/0x649 [nfs]<br>
eax: 00000000 ebx: 000081a4 ecx: 000081a4 edx: 00008000<br>
esi: e999eb40 edi: f40ccab0 ebp: edd108c8 esp: deb91de4<br>
ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068<br>
Process umount.nfs4 (pid: 22737, ti=deb91000 task=f5058c00
task.ti=deb91000)<br>
Stack: c300034c eddc9740 00000004 00000000 f5058c00 c0436fe2 deb91dfc
00000000<br>
f40ccab0 edd10798 00cd4f8f c042f18c eddc96c0 00000000 edd108c8
f40ccab0<br>
eddc96c0 edd108c8 f8cebf0d f40cca00 00000000 f8cf8465 f40cca00
df2fd010<br>
Call Trace:<br>
[<c0436fe2>] wake_bit_function+0x0/0x3c<br>
[<c042f18c>] sigprocmask+0xa1/0xbe<br>
[<f8cebf0d>] nfs_post_op_update_inode+0x27/0x33 [nfs]<br>
[<f8cf8465>] nfs4_proc_delegreturn+0x131/0x172 [nfs]<br>
[<f8d02b85>] nfs_do_return_delegation+0xf/0x1d [nfs]<br>
[<f8ce9364>] nfs_dentry_iput+0x1d/0x60 [nfs]<br>
[<c0487922>] shrink_dcache_for_umount_subtree+0x194/0x1de<br>
[<c04742f2>] add_partial+0x19/0x20<br>
[<c0474fbb>] __slab_free+0x5c/0x235<br>
[<c04774e8>] percpu_depopulate+0x10/0x1a<br>
[<c048834a>] shrink_dcache_for_umount+0x2a/0x36<br>
[<c047a8ee>] generic_shutdown_super+0x15/0xb7<br>
[<c047a9b4>] kill_anon_super+0x9/0x2f<br>
[<f8ceca03>] nfs_kill_super+0xc/0x14 [nfs]<br>
[<c047aa43>] deactivate_super+0x52/0x65<br>
[<c048b983>] expire_mount_list+0xf0/0x125<br>
[<c048c8c3>] shrink_submounts+0x32/0xab<br>
[<c048baab>] sys_umount+0xf3/0x21a<br>
[<c04527db>] audit_syscall_entry+0x10d/0x137<br>
[<c048bbe9>] sys_oldumount+0x17/0x1a<br>
[<c0404f8e>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb<br>
=======================<br>
Code: 20 0f b7 5d 6e 89 c8 89 da 25 00 f0 00 00 81 e2 00 f0 00 00 39 c2
0f 85 92 04 00 00 8b 85 9c 00 00 00 8b b0 64 01
00 00 8b 40 38 <3b> 68 0c 75 52 83 c7 44 89
7c 24 30 8b 7c 24 20 8d 46 78 89 44<br>
EIP: [<f8cea941>] nfs_update_inode+0xba/0x649 [nfs] SS:ESP
0068:deb91de4<br>
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Regards, Howard<br>
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