Re: kernel panic after upgrading to 2.6

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Dougall wrote:
> I am running kernel 2.6.18 after trying 2.6.17.6 and 2.6.17.13 with
> similar results.  I continue to have nfs servers kernel panic on a very
> regular basis, every few days.  Sometimes I need to do an xfs_repair to
> get the filesystem to remount.  I got the following kernel panic message
> from the syslog this time:
> Message from syslogd@nfs09 at Tue Oct 24 09:35:14 2006 ...
> nfs09 kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]

If you ran 2.6.17 < 2.6.17.7, there was a bug:

http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html#dir2

I would suggest getting xfsprogs v. 2.8.10 or newer, as referenced in
the faq, repair your filesystem, and see if the problem is resolved.

-Eric