Hello,
I personally ran into the exact same thing with another customer.
They are running RedHat 8.0 with (2.4.20 at the time). We had to upgrade
them to 2.4.23 and reboot. Worked like a charm. This was about two months
ago. I swear it was almost the exact same error.
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
On Sat, 14 Feb 2004, zohn_ming wu wrote:
> Kernel 2.4.23 on redhat 8.0Please cc any response from
> linux kernel list. TIA.
>
> On or about 7:50am Friday 13 2004 my postgresql server
> breaks down. I can ssh and use "top" and "ps" but
> postgresql stops accepting connection. A small perl
> script that logs system load average also hangs. I
> cannot "kill -9" any hang processes including
> postgreqsql postmaster process.
>
> I then check dmesg and found error message that I copy
> and paste at the bottom.
>
> I finally issued reboot but reboot also didn't work
> and I had to push the reset button.
>
> AMD XP 2500+ with 1.5GB Memory. Postgresql data lives
> on a software raid 1 device.
>
> Kernel 2.4.23 on redhat 8.0
>
> Postgresql 7.4
>
> The last time server was rebooted was about 60 days
> ago when I upgraded the kernel
>
> Can someone suggest anything to help me avoid this
> type of breakdown? I tried to post the message
> yesterday but postgresql list wasn't responding at all
> to subscription request.
>
> ------------
>
> swap_free: Bad swap file entry 00000004
> kernel BUG at buffer.c:539!
> invalid operand: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c0138e8e>] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010282
> eax: cfd10a40 ebx: 00000002 ecx: e75f6ac0 edx:
> c02c548c
> esi: e75f6ac0 edi: 00000001 ebp: e75f6ac0 esp:
> f74efe60
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process postmaster (pid: 457, stackpage=f74ef000)
> Stack: 00000002 c01397ab e75f6ac0 00000002 e75f6ac0
> 00001000 c013a326 e75f6ac0
> 00001000 00000000 00420000 00000000 c2166b40
> f7822980 c013aaef f7822980
> c2166b40 00000000 00001000 c2166b40 f7822980
> 00001000 f7822a34 c016064c
> Call Trace: [<c01397ab>] [<c013a326>] [<c013aaef>]
> [<c016064c>] [<c0160310>]
> [<c012af71>] [<c012b4f6>] [<c015d8a9>] [<c0137753>]
> [<c010733f>]
>
>
>
> Code: 0f 0b 1b 02 17 e0 23 c0 8b 02 85 c0 75 07 89 0a
> 89 49 24 8b
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