On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 01:33:10PM +0100, Adorj??ni G??bor wrote: > Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 > Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch5 > Severity: critical > > After today's kernel upgrade from the Etch security repository, I rebooted our > server and watched the boot process via serial console tunneled through the > IPMI BMC's Serial Over Lan feature. To my surprise, the kernel died with a > null pointer dereference!
Thanks for the detailed report. Unfortunately, I can't reproduce it on my system, nor do I see anything in the changes that might contribute to the problem. Since you say its 100% reproducible, my only guess is a change in timing. > If you need any further information, please contact me on my mail address. > This is a production machine, so I am not going to reboot it for further > experiments. It would be interesting to see if this fixes the issue for you: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=fdc30b3d448bf86dd45f9df3e8ac0d36a3bdd9b2 Also, fwiw, it looks like the sysstat package is triggering the problem. A possible workaround is to remove or disable this package. If you've made any changes to the default sysstat configs, I'd also be interesting to try them locally to see if I can reproduce. -- dann frazier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
