Help with panic?

john bray jmblin at comcast.net
Thu Mar 17 18:23:07 UTC 2005


i use the motion program to monitor a webcam and a bttv cam.  yesterday,
i noticed that the bttv monitoring thread wasn't running.  when i
checked the syslog, i found the following panic.  interestingly enough,
logwatch didn't even pick it up!

i haven't dealt with a linux-type panic before, so i'm hoping someone
with much more experience than i can help me figure out what can be
gotten from this.

here's what was in syslog about it:

Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address 609fc5f6
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  printing eip:
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: 609fc5f6
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: Modules linked in: parport_pc lp parport
autofs4 it87 eeprom i2c_sensor i2c_isa smbfs sunrpc ipt_limit
iptable_mangle ipt_LOG
ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ipt_TOS ipt_REJECT ip_conntrack_irc
ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables dm_mod
videobutton battery a
c nvidia(U) snd_usb_audio snd_usb_lib snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device
ohci_hcd ehci_hcd tuner tvaudio bttv video_buf i2c_algo_bit v4l2_common
btcx_risc snd_bt87x
i2c_nforce2 i2c_core pwc videodev snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec
snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc
forcedeth floppy ext3
jbd
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: CPU:    0
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: EIP:    0060:[<609fc5f6>]    Tainted: PF
VLI
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246   (2.6.10-1.770_FC3)
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: EIP is at 0x609fc5f6
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: eax: e09cf1a0   ebx: db44d280   ecx:
e09cf1a0   edx: db44d280
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: d0e243c0   ebp:
d1ebbef8   esp: d1ebbc88
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: Process motion (pid: 5939,
threadinfo=d1ebb000 task=d84d26e0)
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: Stack: e09b6142 d4107ad8 e09cf1a0
d8adec00 011f0002 d4107ad8 011f0002 dff7d9c0
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:        c0163e8c 00001000 dfd20400
d225718c 00000001 c62c5bf4 e08b4953 d225718c
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:        cbbd1200 c62c5bf4 c62c5bf4
c62c5bf4 e08b5173 e087a626 00000000 c62c5af4
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e09b6142>] bttv_do_ioctl+0xbdc/0x130b
[bttv]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0163e8c>] __getblk+0x24/0x42
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08b4953>] ext3_get_inode_loc
+0x4f/0x215 [ext3]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08b5173>] ext3_do_update_inode
+0x2f7/0x31e [ext3]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e087a626>] journal_get_write_access
+0x25/0x2c [jbd]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08b5425>] ext3_mark_iloc_dirty
+0xf/0x16 [ext3]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08b54e0>] ext3_mark_inode_dirty
+0x33/0x3a [ext3]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c01179bf>] __wake_up+0x78/0xde
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e087b66e>] journal_stop+0x39b/0x3a5
[jbd]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08b8bf6>] __ext3_journal_stop
+0x19/0x34 [ext3]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08b3505>] ext3_ordered_commit_write
+0xb6/0xc5 [ext3]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0148f9a>] mark_page_accessed
+0x1c/0x2e
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0140d2e>] generic_file_buffered_write
+0x388/0x467
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0104e16>] do_IRQ+0x70/0x7a
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c01035b2>] common_interrupt+0x1a/0x20
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0104e16>] do_IRQ+0x70/0x7a
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08bf217>] ext3_permission+0x0/0xa
[ext3]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c017a034>] __d_lookup+0x128/0x1f5
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c016f6d5>] do_lookup+0x1f/0x8f
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0177c60>] dput+0x2c/0x465
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0170453>] link_path_walk+0xd0e/0xdc6
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0104e16>] do_IRQ+0x70/0x7a
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e08d62d3>] video_usercopy+0x9a/0xf7
[videodev]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c02fd6cb>] schedule+0x45d/0x4ea
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c02fe00e>] schedule_timeout+0xf8/0x10c
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e09b68a2>] bttv_ioctl+0x31/0x35 [bttv]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<e09b5566>] bttv_do_ioctl+0x0/0x130b
[bttv]
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c017400d>] sys_ioctl+0x1d0/0x1eb
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel:  [<c0103443>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 15 13:01:31 junior kernel: Code:  Bad EIP value.


thanks!

john




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