Bug 129892 – 2.6.15-r7 kernel not stable , don't know what's wrong , use 2.6.16-5 just ok.

• Status: RESOLVED NEEDINFO
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description wangyong 2006-04-13 18:57:11 UTC]

i build a system as a router (plus nat using iptables) for a big network (about 6000 endpoint).

when i use 2.6.15-r7 , the kernel always crash.  so i switch to 2.6.16-5. it's ok. 

hoping for changing the kernel.

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-13 23:51:31 UTC]

Don't restrict bugs without any reason, please. 

There's no real information here. When does the crash occur? Anything interesting in the kernel log? Or screen output? Kernel .config? emerge --info? We can't guess, sorry.

[Comment 2 wangyong 2006-04-17 00:53:56 UTC]

(In reply to comment #0)
> i build a system as a router (plus nat using iptables) for a big network (about
> 6000 endpoint).
> when i use 2.6.15-r7 , the kernel always crash.  so i switch to 2.6.16-5. it's
> ok. 
> hoping for changing the kernel.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Don't restrict bugs without any reason, please. 
> There's no real information here. When does the crash occur? Anything
> interesting in the kernel log? Or screen output? Kernel .config? emerge --info?
> We can't guess, sorry.

sorry for not giving real information. cause i just build a base gentoo ( from 2006.0 handbook for amd64, no special).
 
emerge  --info 

System uname: 2.6.16.5 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14
dev-lang/python:     2.4.2
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1
sys-devel/binutils:  2.16.1
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa apache2 audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cli crypt ctype cups dba dri eds emboss encode expat fastbuild foomaticdb force-cgi-redirect fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imlib ipv6 isdnlog jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff memlimit mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl opengl pam pcre pdflib perl png posix pppd python qt quicktime readline sdl session simplexml soap sockets spell spl ssl tcpd tetex tiff tokenizer truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb xml xml2 xpm xsl xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, MAKEOPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

using /usr/share/genkernel/x86_64/kernel-config-2.6 as default .config. (genkernel 3.3.11
&& genkernel all) 

patch kernel with patch-o-matic-ng-20060409 for iptables.
just adjust the netfilter options. 

using genkernel builds the two kernel. ( 2.6.15-r7 and 2.6.16.5). just the same .config and same env. 

cause the system will be used as soon as i can . so i don't have time to record the crash information.

so that's all. 

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2006-04-17 01:03:33 UTC]

Reopen.

[Comment 4 Daniel Drake (RETIRED) 2006-04-17 04:29:31 UTC]

Theres absolutely no information here about the crash. We can't help you unless you provide details.

[Comment 5 wangyong 2006-04-17 23:00:41 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Theres absolutely no information here about the crash. We can't help you unless
> you provide details.

cause the system has being used . so i just rebuild another system to find the problem.( same machine,same env) i think that it may be a  'apic' problem. 
it's the common problem in the 2.6 series kernel.

sorry for disturbing you.    

[Comment 6 wangyong 2006-04-18 01:55:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Theres absolutely no information here about the crash. We can't help you unless you provide details.


here i got some userful information.
First boot from common kernel options.

Get crash information as below.

PID 0, comm: swapper not tainted 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 #1
RIP:0010:[<00000000000>][<00000000000>]
RSP:0018:ffffffff803be4a0 EFLAGS:00010202
....
Code:BAD RIP VALUE
<0>kernel panic - not syncing:Aiee,killing interrupt handler! 

Later i use "acpi=off noapic noirbdebug" for this kernel to boot,  it will show nothing and just dead.