This happens consistently once every few days. However, I haven't found yet a way of reproducing it. It works fine for some time, then crashes. The crash seems to be related to load, since it seems that I can make it oops quite easily by emerging stuff, but this still can take more than an hour. It doesn't seem to be overheating, at least the heatsink is quite cold to the touch. It doesn't look like a memory problem either, memtest86 didn't find anything. The only thing I think it might be related to is hardware. I have went through several kernel versions on this machine, and this one seems to be more stable than the previous ones. I have no oopses at all on my other gentoo computers. Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have the system running. 2. Under low load it seems to oops in 2 or 3 days, while compiling it can happen within an hour or two. Actual Results: Kernel oops Expected Results: Continue working normally Portage 2.0.51-r3 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r1, 2.6.9-gentoo-r4no i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.9-gentoo-r4no i686 VIA Nehemiah Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r5 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux-headers-2.4.21-r1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r7 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-Os -march=i686 -msse -mmmx -mfpmath=sse -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -fstack-protector" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks fixpackages loadpolicy sandbox sfperms userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/ http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/ ftp://gentoo.inode.at/source/ ftp://ftp.easynet.nl/mirror/gentoo/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="aalib apache2 apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups curl encode f77 foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk2 imap imlib innodb jpeg libg++ libwww mad maildir mikmod mmx motif mpeg mysql ncurses nls oggvorbis pam pdflib perl png postgres pythonquicktime readline sdl slang spell sse ssl tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms zlib"
Created attachment 45654 [details] Kernel oops
Created attachment 45655 [details] Another kernel oops Seems to be the same problem as above, but with slightly different data. Attaching this one too in case it helps.
Created attachment 45656 [details] Kernel config
Can you please test development-sources-2.6.10_rc3 ?
Okay, will do. Currently I'm running vanilla 2.6.9 with the same configuration. It's been up for 5 days, and had another oops in elf_map. I suppose I should submit that one instead to lkml, since it's the vanilla version. The oops I reported didn't happen yet though. Will try 2.6.10_rc3 later today.
Please reopen with test results.
Okay, it's been running here for a while, without any oopses so far! I still have no idea of how to reproduce it for certain, but the load was quite high, so I think it should have crashed already.