Hi Holger, These binaries are segfaulting on the physical host itself. The host just runs some vm's too. top,w,exim are all fine on the vms themselves.
On 16 Dec 2010, at 12:30, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report > which was filed against the general package: > > #607256: general: various programs generate segfaults, like top, w and exim > > It has been closed by Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org>. > > Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. > If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a > better one in a separate message then please contact Holger Levsen > <hol...@layer-acht.org> by > replying to this email. > > > -- > 607256: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=607256 > Debian Bug Tracking System > Contact ow...@bugs.debian.org with problems > > From: Holger Levsen <hol...@layer-acht.org> > Date: 16 December 2010 12:26:51 GMT > To: Ian Roberts <i...@etlsolutions.com>, 607256-d...@bugs.debian.org > Subject: Re: Bug#607256: general: various programs generate segfaults, like > top, w and exim > > > Hi Robert, > > thanks for filing a bug report and sorry for immediatly closing it... > > On Donnerstag, 16. Dezember 2010, Ian Roberts wrote: >> Package: general >> Severity: serious >> Justification: 1 > [...] >> Top, w and exim are programs that generate segfaults. > [...] >> Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > [...] >> I have yet to try and reboot the system. But this is very worriying for >> me. Them machine runs vmware, all vms are up and running. > > because it really has too little information to debug this. Also this happens > in a virtual machine running on the propietary vmware software. I'd guess > that it might be related to that, maybe vmware doesnt cope well with 8 cores, > or with 8 cores and the outdated 2.6.30 kernel, I dunno. > > But I do know that usually those tools you mentioned dont segfault and if > they > do, that usually indicates a hardware problem. And since "your hardware" is > propietary software, I'm closing this bug. > > > cheers, > Holger > > > > From: Ian Roberts <i...@etlsolutions.com> > Date: 16 December 2010 09:44:06 GMT > To: Debian Bug Tracking System <sub...@bugs.debian.org> > Subject: general: various programs generate segfaults, like top, w and exim > > > Package: general > Severity: serious > Justification: 1 > > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: 5.0.4 > APT prefers stable > APT policy: (500, 'stable') > Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-bpo.2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) > Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Top, w and exim are programs that generate segfaults. > > [17962891.960308] exim[9003]: segfault at 7fffd60d72c4 ip 000000000041e95c sp > 00007fffd60d7290 error 6 in exim4[400000+c8000] > [18093448.036060] hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts > [18093481.029965] hpet1: lost 1 rtc interrupts > [18115321.128571] top[17527]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffbc2c44 > error 14 in top[8048000+80000] > [18115324.494047] top[17528]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffc205c4 > error 14 in top[8048000+80000] > [18115344.797938] top[17538]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffbe97c4 > error 14 in top[8048000+80000] > [18115461.273407] top[17605]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffc04c74 > error 14 in top[8048000+80000] > [18115772.224782] w[17936]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ff860a54 error > 14 in w[8048000+73000] > [18115774.495840] top[17937]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffb236f4 > error 14 in top[8048000+80000] > [18116155.297127] top[18294]: segfault at 0 ip (null) sp 00000000ffe5c844 > error 14 in top[8048000+80000] > > I have yet to try and reboot the system. But this is very worriying for me. > Them machine runs vmware, all vms are up and > running. > > > >
