Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:29:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:29:50 -0500 Received: from mailout06.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.19]:47074 "EHLO mailout06.sul.t-online.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:29:37 -0500 Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 22:29:20 +0100 From: Birger Lammering To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: birger.lammering@science-computing.de Subject: nfs problem: hp-server --- linux 2.4.13 client, ooops Message-ID: <20011115222920.A9929@ludwig2.science-computing.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Mailer: Balsa 1.2.0 Lines: 124 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi there, I've got an interesting problem for people working on nfs: Kernel version: 2.4.13 (up and smp), Trond's seekdir patch, ext3 patch Hardware: P4 1700 (1 and 2), 2 GB RAM. Compiled with RedHat 7.1 gcc (2.96-85) nfs-Server: HP-UX 10.20 Without the nfs patch I had a lot of trouble with Irix servers - now Irix, NetApp, Aix, Linux... nfs- servers are fine, but connecting to a HP server leads to statements like this in the syslog: NFS: short packet in readdir reply! Even worse: Accessing one particular directory (using ls, find etc) leads to a segmentation fault in the accessing process. The machine stays up and running, but some other processes (without relationship to nfs mount) die a sudden death as well. There is nothing special about the directory on the nfs server. There is no problem with Linux 2.2.14-5.0smp. I can check with other 2.4 versions if necessary. The problem is independent of the nfs version. The syslog says: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fe01e000 printing eip: f898eaed *pde = 00004063 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 1 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010296 eax: 01000000 ebx: fe01dff8 ecx: fe01e000 edx: 00000019 esi: fe01e000 edi: 0000006c ebp: f537405c esp: f4e83c60 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ls (pid: 11091, stackpage=f4e83000) Stack: f4e83cec f518c200 f898ea4c f8956e07 f537405c f6a15240 f4e83d94 f4e83d40 f4e83d54 f4e83cac 00000002 f895a18c f4e83cec f4e83cec fffffff5 f4e83cec f518c200 f4e82000 f4e82000 00000000 f4e82000 f4e83d58 f4e83d58 f895a498 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 8b 11 0f ca 8d 42 03 24 fc 8d 4c 01 08 81 fa ff 00 00 00 77 <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 1 EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: 00000000 ebx: f6ff2480 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: f6f49b80 edi: f4e83d24 ebp: f7308180 esp: f4e83d00 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process gcc (pid: 11097, stackpage=f4e83000) Stack: f7308180 f6ff24bc f4e83d90 f4e83d24 f6ff2480 00000000 f4e83e34 f72fae00 f4e83d90 00010002 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000005 0000a1ff 00000001 00000000 00000000 0000001c 00000000 00001000 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: Bad EIP value. <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 00000000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<00000000>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010286 eax: 00000000 ebx: f6ff2480 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 esi: f6f49b80 edi: f4e83d24 ebp: f7308180 esp: f4e83d00 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process gcc (pid: 11139, stackpage=f4e83000) Stack: f7308180 f6ff24bc f4e83d90 f4e83d24 f6ff2480 00000000 f4e83e34 f72fae00 f4e83d90 08060002 f4e82000 f6fe4100 00001812 00000000 080603ec 080600a0 00000005 0000a1ff 00000001 00000000 00000000 0000001c 00000000 00001000 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: Bad EIP value. If you are interested in more details or even better have a solution, please also cc email to my account, since I'm only a casual spectator at this list. Cheers, Birger -- Dr. Birger Lammering science+computing ag Tel: 089 356386-15 Geschaeftsstelle Muenchen Fax: 089 356386-37 Ingolstaedter Str. 22 80807 Muenchen email: Birger.Lammering(at)partner.bmw.de B.Lammering(at)science-computing.de - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/