Kernel Bug? - Was [Yum is hosed on x86_64 system...]

Ubence Quevedo r0d3nt at pacbell.net
Thu Nov 1 03:32:04 UTC 2007


Hi All,

My system was having some problems before [see below message], but  
now I am getting the below message anytime I try to do anything on my  
system:

[pulled from /var/log/message]
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: kernel BUG at mm/memory.c:972!
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [32] SMP
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: CPU 1
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia(P)(U)  
appletalk nfsd exportfs lockd nfs_acl auth_rpcgss autofs4 it87  
hwmon_vid sunrpc ipv6 cpufreq_ondemand dm_mirror dm_multipath dm_mod  
raid456 async
_xor async_memcpy async_tx xor video output sbs battery ac  
snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy sr_mod cdrom  
floppy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event e100 snd_seq snd_seq_device  
snd_pcm_oss snd_mi
xer_oss snd_pcm button i2c_nforce2 mii sg snd_timer k8temp serio_raw  
hwmon forcedeth snd i2c_core soundcore snd_page_alloc sata_nv  
pata_amd ata_generic libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache ehci_hcd  
ohci_h
cd uhci_hcd
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: Pid: 6114, comm: makewhatis Tainted:  
P      D 2.6.23.1-10.fc7 #1
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8107af8c>]   
[<ffffffff8107af8c>] follow_page+0x27f/0x294
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: RSP: 0018:ffff8100023add88  EFLAGS:  
00010202
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX:  
ffff810000728a78 RCX: ffff810001000000
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: RDX: ffff810000728a78 RSI:  
0000000000000679 RDI: ffffffff81479000
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: RBP: ffff81003e073000 R08:  
0000000000000001 R09: 0000000000000001
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: R10: 00007fffffffefe9 R11:  
0000000000000001 R12: 00007fffffffefe9
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: R13: 000000007cfe3701 R14:  
0000000000000001 R15: ffff81003868a000
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: FS:  00002aaaaaad3f40(0000)  
GS:ffff810037cec300(0000) knlGS:00000000f75a5ae0
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0:  
000000008005003b
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: CR2: 00000000008cee70 CR3:  
0000000004e9f000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1:  
0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6:  
00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: Process makewhatis (pid: 6114,  
threadinfo ffff8100023ac000, task ffff81003868a000)
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: Stack:  ffff81003db99160  
000000007cfe377d ffff81003db99160 0000000000000000
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  ffff8100023ade48 0000000000000000  
ffff81003868a000 ffffffff8107dff3
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  ffff81003868a000 0000000181047cb9  
ffff81003e073000 0000000100000020
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: Call Trace:
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  [<ffffffff8107dff3>] get_user_pages 
+0x327/0x3a5
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  [<ffffffff8109aa2d>] get_arg_page 
+0x46/0x9c
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  [<ffffffff8109ac7c>] copy_strings 
+0xf4/0x211
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  [<ffffffff8109adba>]  
copy_strings_kernel+0x21/0x33
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  [<ffffffff8109c3a9>] do_execve 
+0x100/0x1f6
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  [<ffffffff8100a61d>] sys_execve+0x36/0x4c
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  [<ffffffff8100bf87>] stub_execve 
+0x67/0xb0
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: Code: 0f 0b eb fe 31 db 5e 48 89 d8 5b  
5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel: RIP  [<ffffffff8107af8c>] follow_page 
+0x27f/0x294
Oct 31 04:02:43 f7-64 kernel:  RSP <ffff8100023add88>

This all started after the 2.16.23.1 kernel update on an x86_64 system.

Again, I might just tough this out until F8 is released, but was  
curious if anyone else was having this problem.

Thanx...

-Ubence

On Oct 31, 2007, at 06:31 PM, Ubence Quevedo wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> I updated my x86_64 system this morning, and now when I go to run  
> yum, I get the following:
>
> [root at f7-64 ~]# yum clean all;yum update
> Cleaning up Everything
> fedora                    100% |=========================| 2.1  
> kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 4.7  
> MB    00:15
> livna                     100% |=========================| 2.1  
> kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 144  
> kB    00:00
> updates                   100% |=========================| 2.3  
> kB    00:00
> primary.sqlite.bz2        100% |=========================| 2.3  
> MB    00:12
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/yum", line 29, in <module>
>     yummain.main(sys.argv[1:])
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/yummain.py", line 105, in main
>     result, resultmsgs = base.doCommands()
>   File "/usr/share/yum-cli/cli.py", line 278, in doCommands
>     self._getTs()
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/depsolve.py", line 77,  
> in _getTs
>     self._tsInfo.setDatabases(self.rpmdb, self.pkgSack)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line  
> 526, in <lambda>
>     pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line  
> 385, in _getSacks
>     self._pkgSack.excludeArchs(archlist)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line  
> 337, in excludeArchs
>     sack.excludeArchs(archlist)
>   File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/sqlitesack.py", line  
> 812, in excludeArchs
>     cur = cache.cursor()
> AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'cursor'
> Segmentation fault
>
> I tried downloading the yum rpm from a update mirror and re- 
> installing it, but this doesn't seem to have help.
>
> Alot of other things are acting weird too [can't compile Nvidia  
> driver].
>
> I also installed the last 2.6.23.1 kernel that was listed in yum  
> before this all started to go wrong.
>
> If I can't get this fixed by next week, I'll just install a fresh  
> copy of F8 on this system.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanx!
>
> -Ubence
>
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