[OpenAFS] covering bases: hangs and halts, rh7.3 w/2.4.20-18.7 kernel, OpenAFS 1.2.9

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Mon, 30 Jun 2003, Lee Damon wrote:

> We are having serious reliability issues with our Red Hat 7.3 boxes running
> the newest kernel (2.4.20-18.7) and OpenAFS 1.2.9.  I compiled the kernel
> modules exactly the same way I have in the past (no errors, no problems
> reported).
>
> The systems will run fine for anywhere from 30 minutes to multiple days,
> then crash/hang/totally-lock-up with either:
> 	1. scrolling messages going so fast they can't be read.  (Here's
> 		a very small sample)


Can you serially console and try to get a full oops?

> Jun 29 12:45:32 bird5 kernel: [<c02031bf>] ip_finish_output2 [kernel] 0xaf
> (0xd9
> 34ccb8))