Consistent 2.4.16 kernel oops

[David Gordon]

Hi,

I am not subscribed to the kernel mailing list, can you please send the
answer to [e-mail]?

I have experienced repeated and consistent kernel oopses on about 5
different machines with the same hardware and software configuration.
Everytime fsck is run, the kernel panics at about 42.6% of fsck. Booting a
lower version kernel will not create a kernel oops when running fsck.

(By the way, fsck occurs because of another kernel oops, either ssh or
sendmail, but mostly ssh.)

I run:
kernel 2.4.16
RH 7.0 and RH 7.1
256 MB RAM
20 GIG IDE disk
500 MHz Intel

Thank you,

David Gordon
Ericsson Research

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EIP:    0010:[<00001100>]  Not tainted
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 00000001   ebx: c0268e40     ecx: 00000011       edx: d0804000
esi: 00000011   edi: c159bffc     ebp: c159e080       esp: c1417e24
ds: 0018        es: 0018       ss: 0018
Process init (pid: 1, stackpage=c1417000)
Stack:  c13fe4c0 c011e1ed c0268e40 00000001 bffff838 00000001 c159e080
c159c0c0
        c011e46b c159e080 c159c0c0 bffff838 c159bffc 00001100 00000001
c1417ea8
        c010806c 0000000e c14de060 c1417ea8 c1417ea8 0000000e c025dac0
c1416000
Call Trace: [<c011e1ed>] [<c011e46b>] [<c010806c>] [<c010e32a>] [<c010a248>]
        [<c010ee71>] [<c0138774.} [<c010e1a0>] [<c0106e38>] [<c0138eee>]
[<c0106d47>]
Code:   Bad EIP value.

>>EIP; 00001100 Before first symbol   <=====
Trace; c011e1ed <zap_page_range+fd/200>
Trace; c011e46b <map_user_kiobuf+fb/290>
Trace; c010806c <handle_IRQ_event+3c/70>
Trace; c010e32a <pirq_via_set+1a/20>
Trace; c010a248 <call_do_IRQ+5/d>
Trace; c010ee71 <bust_spinlocks+1/50>

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