server freezes from time to time (PE1750 RHEL 4) - Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer

[Götz Reinicke]

Hi Ray,


Ray Van Dolson schrieb:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 12:04:19PM +0200, Götz Reinicke wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> in the last week and today again our PE1750 with raid 1, dual CPU
>> freezes. The OS is RHEL 4 with kernel-smp-2.6.9-34.EL. We used
>> kernel-smp-2.6.9-22.0.1.EL before and AFAIK there where no freezes.
>>
>> A couple of days before the freezing starts, we changed one defect
>> harddisk and rebuildet the raid with a new harddisk from dell. Other
>> hardware/software wasn't changed
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: CPU:    3
>> May 10 06:30:09 mail kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c0185420>]    Tainted: P
>>   VLI
> 
> What module are you using that's tainting your kernel?

I have now idea on that;

[root at mail ~]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
dcdipm                 51464  0
dcdbas                 41632  0
iptable_filter          6721  0
ip_tables              21441  1 iptable_filter
parport_pc             27777  0
lp                     15403  0
parport                37641  2 parport_pc,lp
md5                     8001  1
ipv6                  239969  124
autofs4                22085  0
i2c_dev                14273  0
i2c_core               25921  1 i2c_dev
sunrpc                139173  1
dm_mirror              28449  0
dm_mod                 58949  1 dm_mirror
button                 10449  0
battery                12869  0
ac                      8773  0
ohci_hcd               23889  0
tg3                    85061  0
floppy                 58065  0
sg                     38113  0
ext3                  118729  3
jbd                    59481  1 ext3
megaraid_mbox          37073  4
megaraid_mm            17777  1 megaraid_mbox
sd_mod                 20545  5
scsi_mod              116429  3 sg,megaraid_mbox,sd_mod

/Götz
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