[Vini-dev] Kernel panic problem during VINI working

[Andy Bavier]

Hi,

We have not really tested Trellis on hardware other than that running
on the public VINI (http://www.vini-veritas.net/specs).  However, I
would expect the Trellis kernel to boot on a pretty wide range of
hardware, and I don't have any insight into why it's not working on
the Dell Precision T3400.

We are currently working on a new release of Trellis based on the
2.6.27 Linux kernel.  This release should be more stable than the
current 2.6.25-based Trellis kernel.  If you're interested in giving
the new kernel a try on your Dell machines, I will send you a note
when we have an initial release candidate (I'm hoping in a couple of
weeks).

Cheers,
Andy


On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 5:01 AM, HyunRyong Lee <hrlee at netmedia.gist.ac.kr> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
>
> This is HyunYong who is interested in VINI.
>
>
>
> I installed MyVINI testbed at my lab.
>
> I have problems with running VINI (Trellis) on Dell Precision T3400 model.
>
> During some operations with VINI on those machines (actually 5 T3400
> machines), kernel panic problem happens and shows message like below.
>
> I am also running VINI on another Dell machine and there is no problem like
> this (never!).
>
>
>
> I asked to Dell service center about this problem and they said that it
> might be a problem of OS, not HW.
>
> To check this issue, I installed Fedora 8 (since VINI is based on F8) on
> Dell T3400 and there was no any problem till now.
>
> There are also many Dell T3400 machines running different Fedora versions
> (F7,F9…) in my lab and there was no problem like this.
>
>
>
> Actually I am not sure but I think that there might be some problems(?)
> between Dell T3400 machine and VINI OS.
>
>
>
> To solve this issue, I tried to install VINI (as guest OS) by using Sun
> VirtualBox on Ubuntu OS (8.10).
>
> During installation, after showing “starting from new kernel” message, it
> shows same (not exactly same..) error message.
>
>
>
> Is there anybody who can give me some comments?
>
>
>
> Sincerely yours,
>
> HyunYong.
>
>
>
> ================= Error MSG ===========================
>
> 01 kernel BUG at fs/aio.c:1248!
>
> 02 invalid operand: 0000 [#1]
>
> 03 SMP
>
> 04 Modules linked in: nfs lockd scsi_dump diskdump md5 ipv6 parport_pc
>
> 05 lpparport autofs4 sunrpc dm_mod button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd
>
> 06 soundcore tg3 floppy ext3 jbd mptscsih mptbase sd_mod scsi_mod
>
> 07 CPU: 0
>
> 08 EIP: 0060:[<c017513a>] Not tainted VLI
>
> 09 EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.91.849_EL.rootsmp)
>
> 10 EIP is at io_destroy+0xa6/0xb2
>
> 11 eax: ffffffff ebx: ce52de80 ecx: 00000000 edx: ce52dea4
>
> 12 esi: d10c0980 edi: 00000000 ebp: ce52de80 esp: f1a26fa0
>
> 13 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
>
> 14 Process randasys (pid: 3098, threadinfo=f1a26000 task=f68005a0)
>
> 15 Stack: 15685d28 fffffff2 fffffff2 c01751cf 0000a4d5 25648bb6 5dc5839e
> f1a26000
>
> 16 c02c5a07 0000a4d5 15685d28 70744532 25648bb6 5dc5839e 22079297000000f5
>
> 17 c02c007b 0000007b 000000f5 0063c7a2 00000073 00000282 bfeca8d8 0000007b
>
> ================= MSG ===========================
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>
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