On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, [email protected] wrote:
> Our main user-facing Linux machine at work crashed a couple of times over the
> last few days, both with the same error. It's been up and stable for the last
> 80ish days (from when it was upgraded to Debian sarge), and had no problems
> before that with the same kernel.
>
> Machine is an HP DL740 with four Xeon 2Ghz CPUs and 4Gb RAM (5Gb RAID 5).
>
> I've put both outputs that our console logger saved, and the result from running
> them through ksymoops, at http://www.le.ac.uk/cc/mcn4/problem/
>
> I realise the kernel is tainted. It's a locally compiled Debian kernel. I think
> the non-free module is the qla SAN card driver, but I'm not sure (is there a way
> of finding out what exactly tainted the kernel?)
>
> The strange thing is that both times it seemed to crash in cfi_probe, which
> looks like something to do with Compact Flash / MTDs. Something we don't use.
You're probably using a bad System.map, all we do know is that the oops is
occuring in a module. Can you try rerunning ksymoops using the System.map
in your kernel build directory? Or, cat /proc/modules before it oopses and
then we can compare the faulting address.
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