On Tue, 29 Oct 2013 18:17:22 +0100 "Dr. Nagy Elemér Károl y" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Debian Sparc List, > > I have encountered a "Kernel panic - not syncing: Irrecoverable > deferred error trap." on a Sun Fire V210 running Debian 7.2 as a > bridged iptables firewall. Before we repurposed it as a firewall, > Solaris 2.8 was running on it flawlessly for years except for fan > replacements. > > The machine has months of uptime, but every 2-4 months, it gives us a > trap like this - usually when we log in to do some iptraf or to > configure iptables. > > I have attached a syslog snippet that contains kernel error messages. > > When this happens, iptables seems to keep working but we can not log > into the machine. > > Does anybody know if it is a aging HW problem or a Kernel problem? > > Thank you, > Elemer K. Nagy Hello, I have had this randomly occur on my Sun Fire V210. However after switching to 3.11.4 I have never had this panic ever again so far. If you have more than 4GiB of RAM, you will want to compile the kernel without initrd support and use make-kpkg without --initrd, as the kernel panics on boot with one. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
