Dear All; First, I dont know if this is worth anything since I have andre's ide patch, and the pc speaker sound device patch applied. But here it is anyway. Got this oops applying a patch to a kernel tree. Patch was stuck in the D state. lsof showed it had open a tmp file in /tmp. 'ls /tmp' or 'touch /tmp/pig' locked in D state. Load average went up by one for every process locked. System otherwise ok. Unable to reproduce after reboot. If anyone wants more info, or for me to do something just ask. (probably unrelated : The disk /tmp is on is a little off. It got 'bumped', and a few sectors are messed up. This is what you see when you try to access them _with_ the ide patch. Without the ide patch (2.2.17 virgin), the machine simply locks up hard. Also, I have a file that 2.2.17 virgin locks up hard if you try to cat it. (always) With the ide patch, the file is accessed without complaint hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=425040, sector=425034 hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=425040, sector=425034 hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=425040, sector=425034 hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x10 { SectorIdNotFound }, LBAsect=425040, sector=425034 hda: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success ) =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Heres the oops: WARNING: This version of ksymoops is obsolete. WARNING: The current version can be obtained from ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/ksymoops Options used: -v ../../vmlinux (specified) -O (specified) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.2.17 (specified) -c 1 (default) Warning in compare_ksyms_lsmod, module ip_masq_ftp is in lsmod but not in ksyms, probably no symbols exported Warning in compare_ksyms_lsmod, module nfs is in lsmod but not in ksyms, probably no symbols exported Warning: ksyms_base symbol module_list_R__ver_module_list not found in vmlinux. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000019 current->tss.cr3 = 02324000, %cr3 = 02324000 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[iput+26/552] EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 00000001 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c192b770 edx: 00000000 esi: c192a760 edi: c192a760 ebp: fffffc67 esp: c1bc3edc ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process patch (pid: 18593, process nr: 50, stackpage=c1bc3000) Stack: c2644018 c0124f90 c2256200 00000000 00000000 c012ee5d c192a760 c47ceea0 c59ec004 00000000 c18c5540 c1139870 fffffffe c59ec000 000041ed c1139870 00000000 ffffffff c56b1a00 c1bc3f78 00000005 c012f16b 00000021 ffffffff Call Trace: [__brelse+28/100] [prune_dcache+181/312] [shrink_dcache_parent+23/48] [lookup_dentry+365/504] [vfs_rmdir+254/308] [sys_rmdir+173/268] [sys_rmdir+256/268] Code: 8b 40 18 85 c0 74 02 89 c3 85 db 74 10 8b 43 08 85 c0 74 09 Warning: trailing garbage ignored on Code: line Text: 'Code: 8b 40 18 85 c0 74 02 89 c3 85 db 74 10 8b 43 08 85 c0 74 09 ' Garbage: ' ' Code: 00000000 Before first symbol 00000000 <_IP>: <=== Code: 00000000 Before first symbol 0: 8b 40 18 movl 0x18(%eax),%eax <=== Code: 00000003 Before first symbol 3: 85 c0 testl %eax,%eax Code: 00000005 Before first symbol 5: 74 02 je 00000009 Before first symbol Code: 00000007 Before first symbol 7: 89 c3 movl %eax,%ebx Code: 00000009 Before first symbol 9: 85 db testl %ebx,%ebx Code: 0000000b Before first symbol b: 74 10 je 0000001d Before first symbol Code: 0000000d Before first symbol d: 8b 43 08 movl 0x8(%ebx),%eax Code: 00000010 Before first symbol 10: 85 c0 testl %eax,%eax Code: 00000012 Before first symbol 12: 74 09 je 0000001d Before first symbol 6 warnings issued. Results may not be reliable. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Linux version 2.2.17 (set@squish) (gcc version 2.95.2 19991024 (release)) #139 Sun Oct 8 21:34:25 EDT 2000 Detected 332764 kHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 663.55 BogoMIPS Memory: 95812k/98240k available (816k kernel code, 408k reserved, 1160k data, 44k init) Dentry hash table entries: 16384 (order 5, 128k) Buffer cache hash table entries: 131072 (order 7, 512k) Page cache hash table entries: 32768 (order 5, 128k) CPU: L1 I Cache: 32K L1 D Cache: 32K CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 00 Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf0560 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 131072 bhash 65536) Starting kswapd v 1.5 Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A ttyS03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 0) is a 16550A Real Time Clock Driver v1.09 PCSP 1.3 measurement: maximal samplerate 149147 Hz, 18356 Hz used Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.30 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78 ALI15X3: chipset revision 193 ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide0: BM-DMA at 0xd400-0xd407, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xd408-0xd40f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio hda: Maxtor 71336 A, ATA DISK drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hdc: WDC AC36400L, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 hda: Maxtor 71336 A, 1277MB w/64kB Cache, CHS=2595/16/63, DMA hdc: WDC AC36400L, 6149MB w/256kB Cache, CHS=13328/15/63, UDMA(33) Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 wd.c:v1.10 9/23/94 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth0: WD80x3 at 0x300, 00 00 C0 47 8A 29 WD8013, IRQ 11, shared memory at 0xd0000-0xd3fff. Partition check: hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hdc: hdc1 hdc2 hdc3 hdc4 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Freeing unused kernel memory: 44k freed kmod: runaway modprobe loop assumed and stopped NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0. Adding Swap: 152608k swap-space (priority 3) CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling) PPP line discipline registered. PPP BSD Compression module registered PPP Deflate Compression module registered IPv6 v0.8 for NET4.0 IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver irqtune/0.4: setting system IRQ priority to 3/14 eth0: no IPv6 routers present PCSP on device 3, mixer on device 0 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks -- unusual then possibly you have very old versions) Linux squish 2.2.17 #139 Sun Oct 8 21:34:25 EDT 2000 i586 AuthenticAMD Kernel modules 2.1.121 Gnu C 2.95.2 Binutils 2.9.1.0.25 Linux C Library 2.1.2 Dynamic linker ldd: version 1.9.10 Procps 2.0.2 Mount 2.9r Net-tools 1.52 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 1.16 Modules Loaded pcsnd soundcore nfs lockd sunrpc ipv6 ip_masq_ftp ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp slhc unix =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/