On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Matthew McCleary wrote about, Kernel panic: non-existent task ?:
> I got a kernel panic on our main server this afternoon. Everything just
> froze solid--I had to go to console to figure out what was wrong. The
> message was:
Everything froze "solid" but you could access a console, then everything
did not freeze solid.
Did you manage to figure out what was wrong.?? you dont mention, there
shuold be a copy of the oops in /var/log/messages / debug / syslog, in the
message it will possably say which task it was causing the problem.
There will be an EIP value, that value can be used with ksymoops a small
program in the kernel source tree ./linux/scripts/ksymoops/* in the README
in that dir, it tells you what to do.
> Kernel panic: trying to release non-existent task
>
> The server is running 2.0.34. Is anyone aware what this message means, or
> was it just a fluke?
I would be concerned if it happend to me, however i am choosy. Nothing is
a fluke, something hit the kernel hard and caused it to barf, in itself
that is NOT a good thing.
> The server had an uptime of around 12 days and had
> experienced no problems up to this point, and there was nothing
> particularly stressful running at the time. Should I worry?
I have had machines running for more that 300 days and they have never
missed a beat.
One thing to remember is you are running an old pre-distribution kernel, by
that i mean, 2.0.38 {i belive} it was was the final edition in that kernel
series and was considered to be the most stable.
Another thing to remember is, when one has such an out dated kernel and
distribution and one keeps installing "new programs" then problems are
going to arise.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
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