[suse-sles-e] IBM eSeries 225 crashes

From: Armin Geyer (armin.geyer_at_isola-group.com)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2006 - 08:56:22 CEST


From: Armin Geyer <armin.geyer@isola-group.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 08:56:22 +0200
Message-ID: <OF70E20929.D108C883-ONC12571E9.00261EB9-C12571E9.00261ECA@isola-group.com>
Subject: [suse-sles-e] IBM eSeries 225 crashes


Our IMB eSeries 225 (one 2.4Ghz Xeon, 1,5GB RAM) crashes after two days
running Domino 7.

We

- updated the BIOS and RAID firmware
- loaded BIOS defaults
- checked the RAM
- checked the filessystems

- use SLES 9 with SP3 and all updates
- tried kernel smp-244 and smp-276.

Here the last message from /var/log/messages:

Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 /USR/SBIN/CRON[8287]: (root) CMD (/usr/lib/sa1)
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: kernel BUG at mm/highmem.c:552!
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: SMP
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: CPU: 0
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c015f602>] Tainted: G
U
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.5-7.244-smp
SLES9_SP3_BRANCH-200512121832250000)
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: EIP is at set_page_address+0x112/0x190
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: eax: 20000000 ebx: c1720700 ecx:
c1000000 edx: 00000000
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: esi: f3c26000 edi: 00000065 ebp:
c119f120 esp: f3c27d84
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: Process cron (pid: 8286,
threadinfo=f3c26000 task=f41e8cc0)
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: Stack: 00000000 c1720700 f3c26000 00000065
f3c27dbc c015fc6d c03af800 00000
000
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: 00000001 000000d2 c015649d f3c27db0
f3c27db0 00000000 00000000 00000
002
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: 00000000 f41e8cc0 00000010 c03b0c20
00000000 00000080 c1720700 fffff
ff4
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: Call Trace:
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c015fc6d>] kmap_high+0x9d/0x1df
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c015649d>] __alloc_pages+0xad/0x330
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c01815dc>] copy_strings+0xec/0x240
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c0181750>]
copy_strings_kernel+0x20/0x30
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c01818d9>] do_execve+0x179/0x370
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c0186bf3>] getname+0x83/0xb0
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c0107675>] sys_execve+0x35/0x70
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: [<c01091d9>] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x79
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel:
Sep 13 18:40:01 durmx701 kernel: Code: 0f 0b 28 02 12 7a 36 c0 e9 04 ff ff
ff 0f 0b 2c 02 12 7a 36

We have not so much experience with SLES 9 because all other systems (from
HP) are still using old Suse releases (8.0, 8.2, 9.0) without any problems
running Domino and Oracle.

Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards

Armin Geyer

Project Manager Technical IT

Isola GmbH
52348 Dueren, Germany
 Tel. ++49 (0) 2421 808 306
armin.geyer@isola-group.com

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