[linux-dvb] Re: budget oops

[Holger Waechtler <holger@convergence.de>]

Franck Arnaud wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've finally found time to test my old budget kernel oops with 
> today's (2003-04-23) dvb-kernel CVS.
>
> My config: VIA EPIA 5000 motherboard, kernel 2.4.18, dvb-kernel 
> build-2.4 driver, budget Nova-S with BSRV-2 frontend (with
> a slow fan blowing on it as it got warm before).
>
> It crashes somewhat reliably after 20-ish channel changes (running 
> dvbstream or dvbtune, new process for each channel change). It works 
> fine up to then, I guess if I did reboot every 10 channel changes 
> it would never crash :-).
>
> It's always at tune or exit time I think, no problem when receiving 
> stuff without changing channels (I always run a new process 
> when changing channels if that makes a difference).
>
> The oops is in a system call from init, all crashes I had a oops 
> log for looked similar, with a similar trace:
>
>  [free_uid+44/52] [release_task+41/336] [sys_wait4+779/916] 
> [system_call+51/64]
>
> The full oops:
well, the stack trace does not makes much sense without the symbol 
table. Please post the output of 'dmesg | ksymoops' - that contains much 
more useful information.

thanks,

Holger


> Apr 23 13:18:59 sat kernel: DVB: registering new adapter 
> (TT-Budget/WinTV-NOVA-S  PCI).
> Apr 23 13:19:03 sat kernel: DVB: registering frontend 0:0 (Alps BSRV2)...
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel:  printing eip:
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: c012a678
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: Oops: 0002
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: CPU:    0
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_free+52/148]    Not 
> tainted
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: EFLAGS: 00010016
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: 06013499   ecx: 
> c1009a40   edx: 00000000
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: esi: c11fe4b0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 
> bffff730   esp: c7db1f5c
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: Process init (pid: 1, stackpage=c7db1000)
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: Stack: c6602000 000005f1 c7db0000 bffff730 
> c011e06c c11fe4b0 c0269320 c0118ab9 
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel:        c0269320 c6602000 c0119717 c6602000 
> c7db0000 00000000 bffff730 bffff6f4 
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel:        c7db1fb0 00000000 c7db0000 00000000 
> 00000000 00000000 c7db0000 c7db00bc 
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: Call Trace: [free_uid+44/52] 
> [release_task+41/336] [sys_wait4+779/916] [system_call+51/64] 
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: 
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel: Code: 89 44 99 18 89 59 14 8b 41 10 8d 50 ff 
> 89 51 10 83 f8 01 75 
> Apr 23 13:35:04 sat kernel:  <0>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
> --
> franck@nenie.org


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