[OpenAFS] Linux kernel panic, OpenAFS client, gconf

[David Miller]

I was having some gconf related problems the other day and came across 
and environment var that you can use to make it put its lock files in /tmp
explained here
http://www.gnome.org/projects/gconf/
you just set
GCONF_LOCAL_LOCKS=1
for the user (for example ~/.profile)

that page says its for redhat 8 only...but i think its made its way into 
stock gnome/gconf.
I didnt end up using it, as my problem was with something else.
But thought it might help



Jan-Marc Pilawa wrote:

>Hello *, 
>
>I read some threads about this problem in the archives, but till now I have no 
>clue how to solve the frequent client crashes on SMP-systems. The problem is 
>always triggered by gconfd-2 (At least the problem was only one time 
>triggered by another application (mozilla)). 
>
>I upgraded from openafs-1.2.10 to 1.2.11 (on SuSE 9.0, Kernel 2.4.21-xxx) and 
>applied a patch from Chas Williams for osi_vnodeops.c, but it is almost the 
>same. The Situation is improved sofar that in some cases afsd seems to hang 
>and the applications produce very high load, because they can't access afs.
>
>In most cases the systems produce oopses like the following one (here the 
>output from ksymoops of the kernel panic):
>
> 
>TT3<1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffff
>c6148b50
>*pde = 00006063
>Oops: 0002 2.4.21-226-smp4G #1 SMP Tue Jun 15 10:28:32 UTC 2004
>CPU:    1
>EIP:    0010:[<c6148b50>]    Tainted: P 
>Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
>EFLAGS: 00010292
>eax: 00000003   ebx: ea16dec8   ecx: 00000046   edx: c032d058
>esi: faba5c34   edi: 00000001   ebp: fa4fe660   esp: ea16de58
>ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
>Process gconfd-2 (pid: 15463, stackpage=ea16d000)
>Stack: c616d490 e8298b20 ea16deec ea16decc ea16dee8 ea16def8 ea16dec0 c6129419 
>       c616d490 e8298b20 ea16deec ea16decc fa6043f8 00000008 ea16dee8 00000001 
>       00000001 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 e8298b20 00000000 00000006 
>Call Trace:         [<c616d490>] (28) [<c6129419>] (04) [<c616d490>] (76)
>  [<c6120e89>] (92) [<c6175664>] (12) [<c6175664>] (08) [<c6158b71>] (48)
>  [<c0163742>] (32) [<c016512f>] (60) [<c0109637>] (60)
>Code: c6 05 ff ff ff ff 2a 83 c4 1c c3 90 8d 74 26 00 b8 76 d9 16 
>
>
>  
>
>>>EIP; c6148b50 <[libafs]osi_Panic+20/60>   <=====
>>>      
>>>
>
>  
>
>>>ebx; ea16dec8 <[ax25]ax25_table_size+3191a58/ae43bf0>
>>>edx; c032d058 <log_wait+0/c>
>>>esp; ea16de58 <[ax25]ax25_table_size+31919e8/ae43bf0>
>>>      
>>>
>
>Trace; c616d490 <[libafs].rodata.end+4fe5/cb95>
>Trace; c6129419 <[libafs]afs_lookup+fb9/1250>
>Trace; c616d490 <[libafs].rodata.end+4fe5/cb95>
>Trace; c6120e89 <[libafs]afs_access+f9/390>
>Trace; c6175664 <[libafs]afs_global_lock+0/1c>
>Trace; c6175664 <[libafs]afs_global_lock+0/1c>
>Trace; c6158b71 <[libafs]afs_linux_lookup+61/1c0>
>Trace; c0163742 <lookup_hash+c2/120>
>Trace; c016512f <sys_unlink+8f/130>
>Trace; c0109637 <system_call+33/38>
>
>Code;  c6148b50 <[libafs]osi_Panic+20/60>
>00000000 <_EIP>:
>Code;  c6148b50 <[libafs]osi_Panic+20/60>   <=====
>   0:   c6 05 ff ff ff ff 2a      movb   $0x2a,0xffffffff   <=====
>Code;  c6148b57 <[libafs]osi_Panic+27/60>
>   7:   83 c4 1c                  add    $0x1c,%esp
>Code;  c6148b5a <[libafs]osi_Panic+2a/60>
>   a:   c3                        ret    
>Code;  c6148b5b <[libafs]osi_Panic+2b/60>
>   b:   90                        nop    
>Code;  c6148b5c <[libafs]osi_Panic+2c/60>
>   c:   8d 74 26 00               lea    0x0(%esi,1),%esi
>Code;  c6148b60 <[libafs]osi_Panic+30/60>
>  10:   b8 76 d9 16 00            mov    $0x16d976,%eax
>
>The systems crash most likely around 12am, but i saw them crashing at other 
>times, too. At that time many users are logged in. I can login remote or at 
>the console as root and /sbin/reboot -f still works, thats fine -at least for 
>me, but not for about a dozen of users ;-).
>
>
>Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Sincerely
>
>Jan Pilawa
>
>  
>