-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 12 February 2003 11:52 am, Troy Arnold wrote: > On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 10:51:20AM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > begin Ryan Castellucci <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > This is not the first time this has happened, but it's really starting > > > to bug me. > > > > > > sda is sometimes a USB device, was not plugged in at the time. > > > > > > Anyone know where things went wrong here? > > > > > > This error resulted in processes getting hung in the 'D' state (as > > > reported by top) > > > > > > I ended up having to reboot. Any ideas? > > > > why not disable devfs and see if this happens again? > > > > also, see: > > > > /usr/src/linux-2.4.20/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt > > > > and why did you reboot? because of a few processes in the D state? > > Once you see this: > > > Feb 12 04:22:44 windy kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request > > > at virtual address 3a2061a8 > > > Feb 12 04:22:44 windy kernel: printing eip: > > You're hosed. Time to reboot. > > Ryan, what kind of device is this? What kernel are you running? > You might check the kernel Changelogs for anything pertaining to your > device. There have been plenty of usb updates in recent months.
I'm running 2.4.18-8.1mdk, an updated kernel for Mandrake 8.2 The usb device is a Compact Flash reader/writer (USB Mass Storage), but it hadn't been plugged in for days, and I'd properly unmounted it. Does the paging error have anything to do with swap? Swap is one interesting thing about my setup...... I'm running swap on an encrypted loopback partition. # swapoff -s Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/loop/3 partition 1602208 200 -1 # losetup /dev/loop/3 /dev/loop/3: [0007]:454 (/dev/hda3) offset 0, AES128 encryption If this is indeed swap related, I can disable the swap encryption, since I really don't need the security. - -- PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE+S0z/Ed9E83IXe8cRAlOyAKCH/yL8elQwER46pDoCDVlU6FyhqgCbBHaW tjFwQullfrdZrK8vCyLaPAI= =YVqr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
