vmware guest crash spinlock lockup - bugzilla-able ?

David Timms dtimms at iinet.net.au
Tue Jan 9 12:40:01 UTC 2007


{Reposting to fedora-list rather than fedora-test-list, oops}

Hi, I have some machines:
pc1: dell sc430   , 1GB, raid 1 software, intel x86_64 kernel
pc2: shuttle xcube, 1GB, raid 1 software, intel i686 kernel
os1+2: fc6 +updated 2007-01-04, vmware-server-1.0.1

Both machines run two vmware-guests:
1: fc6 +updated 2007-01-04, samba server, winbind
2: fc6 +updated 2007-01-04, dns, dhcp, openldap.
All real and guest vms are running kernel-2.6.18-1.2868.fc6 #1 SMP
After about 48 hours, pc1-vm1 crashed, restarted and still OK. 3 days.
Today I have found that pc2-vm1 and pc2-vm2 have crashed.

Message left on pc2:vm2 screen summary:
  worker_thread
  kthread
  kthread
  kernel_thread
=====
BUG: spinlock lockup on CPU#0, modprobe/13636  (Not tainted)
  dump_trace
  show_trace_log_lvl
  show_trace
  dump_stack
  _raw_spin_lock
  cache_alloc_refill
  kmem_cache_alloc
  get_empty_filp
  __path_lookup_open
  open_name
  do_filp_open
  do_sys_open
  sys_open
  syscall_call
DWARF2 unwinder stuck at syscall_call
Leftover inexact backtrace:
=====

the visible part of the trace with the other vm is different, but 
mentions the
same spinlock and DWARF messages.

The server and vm guests have quite a few services either disabled or 
removed,
to reduce overall machine load.

Is this an issue that needs to be fixed/reported to bugzilla.redhat ?
Or is there another bug report location that would be best.

DaveT.




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