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--- Begin Message ---Package: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64 Version: 2.6.17-8 Severity: critical Justification: breaks unrelated software The specifications of the machine in question before the bug was found: AMD64 3700+ processor (single core) ASUS A8N-SLI deluxe motherboard 2Gb of 333MHz DDR in two 1Gb sticks Debian Etch (dist-upgrade as of August 31) Debian stock kernel 2.6.17-2-amd64 VMWare 5.5 using Any-to-Any patch, installed and running properly Everything was happy until I added another 1Gb of RAM to the machine (in the form of two 512Mb 400MHz DDR sticks). Upon doing so, the VMWare GUI launches properly but starting a VM crashes the entire X session and a number of other programs with the following output to syslog: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Active:73720 inactive:32596 dirty:683 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:648340 slab:9099 mapped:57706 pagetables:1790 Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA free:24kB min:24kB low:28kB high:36kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:11292kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3014 3014 3014 Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:2593336kB min:7012kB low:8764kB high:10516kB active:294880kB inactive:130384kB present:3086500kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 Normal free:0kB min:0kB low:0kB high:0kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 HighMem free:0kB min:128kB low:128kB high:128kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:0kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 0 0 0 Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA: 0*4kB 1*8kB 1*16kB 0*32kB 0*64kB 0*128kB 0*256kB 0*512kB 0*1024kB 0*2048kB 0*4096kB = 24kB Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA32: 2506*4kB 19942*8kB 21602*16kB 16772*32kB 10139*64kB 4347*128kB 843*256kB 109*512kB 29*1024kB 11*2048kB 3*4096kB = 2593336kB Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 Normal: empty Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Node 0 HighMem: empty Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Swap cache: add 44, delete 44, find 0/0, race 0+0 Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Free swap = 3855420kB Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Total swap = 3855592kB Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Free swap: 3855420kB Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: 786416 pages of RAM Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: 13657 reserved pages Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: 120890 pages shared Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: 0 pages swap cached Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 200185 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21634 (artsd). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 191734 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21638 (konqueror). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 165438 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21639 (konqueror). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 139152 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21640 (kwrite). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 124096 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21641 (konqueror). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 97760 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21642 (konqueror). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 71478 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21643 (konqueror). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21644 (gaim) score 58404 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21651 (gaim). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 45197 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21644 (gaim). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21623 (kdesktop) score 30577 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21623 (kdesktop). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 30482 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21823 (wrapper-gtk24.s). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21613 (kded) score 30037 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21613 (kded). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 29581 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21856 (klauncher). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21658 (knotify) score 28944 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21658 (knotify). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21489 (FahCore_a0.exe) score 28370 and children. Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21489 (FahCore_a0.exe). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21490 (FahCore_a0.exe). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21491 (FahCore_a0.exe). Sep 4 00:40:31 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21492 (FahCore_a0.exe). Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21625 (kicker) score 26543 and children. Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21625 (kicker). Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21654 (klipper) score 22490 and children. Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21654 (klipper). Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21636 (kaccess) score 21457 and children. Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21636 (kaccess). Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21620 (ksmserver) score 21218 and children. Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21620 (ksmserver). Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21606 (kdeinit) score 19539 and children. Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21606 (kdeinit). Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21609 (dcopserver) score 18792 and children. Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21609 (dcopserver). Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of Memory: Kill process 21853 (vmware) score 11787 and children. Sep 4 00:40:32 localhost kernel: Out of memory: Killed process 21855 (vmware-vmx). Sep 4 00:40:36 localhost kdm_greet[21878]: Can't open default user face ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following appears later in the syslog: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 4 00:42:28 localhost kernel: DMA memory shortage. Temporarily falling back on virtual DMA Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: vmware: page allocation failure. order:3, mode:0x10d1 Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Call Trace: <ffffffff8020e081>{__alloc_pages+680} <ffffffff8023a566>{__get_free_pages+14} Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: <ffffffff88160d7d>{:floppy:floppy_open+295} <ffffffff802b6590>{do_open+160} Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: <ffffffff802b64e8>{bdget+276} <ffffffff802b6ab2>{blkdev_open+0} Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: <ffffffff802b6ad3>{blkdev_open+33} <ffffffff8021cadf>{__dentry_open+217} Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: <ffffffff80225701>{do_filp_open+42} <ffffffff80214751>{get_unused_fd+102} Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: <ffffffff8021859e>{do_sys_open+68} <ffffffff8025ccd2>{ia32_sysret+0} Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Mem-info: Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA per-cpu: Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 0, batch 1 used:0 Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 0, batch 1 used:0 Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA32 per-cpu: Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: cpu 0 hot: high 186, batch 31 used:159 Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: cpu 0 cold: high 62, batch 15 used:11 Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Node 0 Normal per-cpu: empty Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Node 0 HighMem per-cpu: empty Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Free pages: 2313696kB (0kB HighMem) Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Active:126170 inactive:48987 dirty:596 writeback:0 unstable:0 free:578424 slab:9283 mapped:115120 pagetables:2412 Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA free:32kB min:24kB low:28kB high:36kB active:0kB inactive:0kB present:11292kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? yes Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: lowmem_reserve[]: 0 3014 3014 3014 Sep 4 00:43:26 localhost kernel: Node 0 DMA32 free:2313664kB min:7012kB low:8764kB high:10516kB active:504680kB inactive:195948kB present:3086500kB pages_scanned:0 all_unreclaimable? no ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am hoping this is the right place to submit this information. Given as the problem only seems to be reproducable with VMWare (thus requiring a tainted kernel), I am submitting here instead of LKML. Removal of the extra 1Gb of DDR (reducing the system to 2Gb again) fixes the problem; at 2Gb, VMWare runs properly again. The problem is not unique to a specific VM: two VMs (one Windows 2000, one Debian IA32 Sarge) both exhibited the same behavior, as did a new one. I would not mark this problem with such high severity except that the following output to the syslog halted my tinkering for the evening: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 4 01:06:01 localhost kernel: md: syncing RAID array md0 Sep 4 01:06:01 localhost kernel: md: minimum _guaranteed_ reconstruction speed: 1000 KB/sec/disc. Sep 4 01:06:01 localhost kernel: md: using maximum available idle IO bandwidth (but not more than 200000 KB/sec) for reconstruction. Sep 4 01:06:01 localhost kernel: md: using 128k window, over a total of 312571136 blocks. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This happened immediately after my fourth X session crash as a result of starting VMWare. In this case, whatever memory problem is arising apparently caused my RAID5 to go out of sync. mdadm --detail /dev/md0 reported the array's status as "clean, resyncing". I did not feel comfortable proceeding until the array reconstruction had completed. The following is the output of a few potentially helpful commands from my system: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 3091600 1342420 1749180 0 7528 834596 -/+ buffers/cache: 500296 2591304 Swap: 3855592 116 3855476 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/meminfo MemTotal: 3091600 kB MemFree: 1740884 kB Buffers: 7884 kB Cached: 840740 kB SwapCached: 16 kB Active: 803144 kB Inactive: 457132 kB HighTotal: 0 kB HighFree: 0 kB LowTotal: 3091600 kB LowFree: 1740884 kB SwapTotal: 3855592 kB SwapFree: 3855476 kB Dirty: 112 kB Writeback: 0 kB Mapped: 543992 kB Slab: 50144 kB CommitLimit: 5401392 kB Committed_AS: 829868 kB PageTables: 9344 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB VmallocUsed: 298580 kB VmallocChunk: 34359432699 kB [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# cat /proc/vmstat nr_dirty 121 nr_writeback 0 nr_unstable 0 nr_page_table_pages 2338 nr_mapped 129519 nr_slab 12908 pgpgin 79491310 pgpgout 58817848 pswpin 18 pswpout 44 pgalloc_high 0 pgalloc_normal 0 pgalloc_dma32 67361665 pgalloc_dma 590 pgfree 67755244 pgactivate 4297035 pgdeactivate 2885886 pgfault 34368037 pgmajfault 46515 pgrefill_high 0 pgrefill_normal 0 pgrefill_dma32 8859331 pgrefill_dma 0 pgsteal_high 0 pgsteal_normal 0 pgsteal_dma32 18486611 pgsteal_dma 0 pgscan_kswapd_high 0 pgscan_kswapd_normal 0 pgscan_kswapd_dma32 21019296 pgscan_kswapd_dma 0 pgscan_direct_high 0 pgscan_direct_normal 0 pgscan_direct_dma32 1526688 pgscan_direct_dma 0 pginodesteal 526399 slabs_scanned 874310528 kswapd_steal 17458257 kswapd_inodesteal 10148069 pageoutrun 149720 allocstall 6287 pgrotated 2698 nr_bounce 0 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# vmstat 1 procs -----------memory---------- ---swap-- -----io---- -system-- ----cpu---- r b swpd free buff cache si so bi bo in cs us sy id wa 1 0 116 1568544 14812 1015812 0 0 899 665 99 176 15 4 77 4 2 0 116 1568544 14812 1015812 0 0 0 0 1539 2059 59 41 0 0 1 0 116 1568420 14812 1015812 0 0 4 0 1416 2223 61 39 0 0 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More information available upon request. I'm not overly familiar with the bug reporting process, so my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (just in case more information is needed and I'm not responding to questions or somesuch). Cheers! -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (600, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (400, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-amd64 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64 depends on: ii e2fsprogs 1.39-1 ext2 file system utilities and lib ii initramfs-tools [linux-initra 0.76 tools for generating an initramfs ii module-init-tools 3.2.2-3 tools for managing Linux kernel mo linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64 recommends no packages. -- debconf information: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/kimage-is-a-directory: shared/kernel-image/really-run-bootloader: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/abort-overwrite-2.6.17-2-amd64: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/overwriting-modules-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/old-system-map-link-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/failed-to-move-modules-2.6.17-2-amd64: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/abort-install-2.6.17-2-amd64: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-2.6.17-2-amd64: false linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/elilo-initrd-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/bootloader-error-2.6.17-2-amd64: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/prerm/would-invalidate-boot-loader-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/lilo-has-ramdisk: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/old-dir-initrd-link-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/lilo-initrd-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/already-running-this-2.6.17-2-amd64: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/old-initrd-link-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/depmod-error-initrd-2.6.17-2-amd64: false linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/create-kimage-link-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/prerm/removing-running-kernel-2.6.17-2-amd64: true linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/postinst/bootloader-test-error-2.6.17-2-amd64: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/initrd-2.6.17-2-amd64: linux-image-2.6.17-2-amd64/preinst/bootloader-initrd-2.6.17-2-amd64: true
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--- Begin Message ---On Mon, Sep 04, 2006 at 09:47:20PM +0000, Zachary Palmer wrote: > Upon doing so, the VMWare GUI > launches properly but starting a VM crashes the entire X session and a > number of other programs with the following output to syslog: We can't support tainted kernels. You have to reproduce this without vmware modules loaded. Bastian -- A princess should not be afraid -- not with a brave knight to protect her. -- McCoy, "Shore Leave", stardate 3025.3
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