Re: 2.4.19-pre6aa1 oops

[Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>]

On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:50:31AM -0400, Jim Eshleman wrote:
>   After two weeks of uneventful uptime with -pre6aa1 the system hung 
> with no symptoms, no messages, no way in.  XFS filesystems recovered 
> themselves on reboot with no apparent problems.  About twelve hours 
> later got the appended oops, in the early AM.  I suspect it may have 
> been triggered by the system backup, which is now stuck in D state. 
> Otherwise the system is running normally except loadavg is high (6-7) 
> even though there is little CPU and IO usage.

I would suggest a full forced fsck and an upgrade to 2.4.19pre8aa3 that
includes the xfs 1.1 release (it fixes various xfs issues compared to
2.4.19pre6aa1). Personally I mostly care about the glue between xfs and
mainline kernel, so for specific xfs bugs you were right to CC the xfs
mailing list.

Andrea