[ale] Kernel panic

[Christopher Fowler]

I get this error message:


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Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging
request at virtual address 625ae8e0
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  printing eip:
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: 02164c7f
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: *pde = 00000000
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: Oops: 0002 [#1]
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: CPU:    0
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: EIP:    0060:[<02164c7f>]    Not
tainted
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202   (2.6.5-1.358-SAM-
ACCUNET-001)
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: EIP is at proc_read_inode+0x4/0x29
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: eax: 16f68390   ebx: 16f68390   ecx:
00000000   edx: 022cb760
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: esi: 16f68390   edi: 21fb8200   ebp:
0cec6180   esp: 1e33de80
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: ds: 007b   es: 007b   ss: 0068
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: Process sendmail (pid: 1582,
threadinfo=1e33d000 task=213c47b0)
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: Stack: 00000000 21ff8910 02164e22
21ff8910 0cec6207 21ff8963 02166f6d ffffffea
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:        00000000 21fb0e10 21fb0e10
1e33df78 0cec6180 21fb3b80 02164f5e 022cb840
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:        0cec6180 21fb0e10 0214ad81
1e33df78 1e33df14 00000000 1e33df78 1e33df14
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: Call Trace:
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<02164e22>] proc_get_inode
+0x59/0xdd
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<02166f6d>] proc_lookup+0xb6/0xc4
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<02164f5e>] proc_root_lookup
+0x2a/0x42
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<0214ad81>] real_lookup+0x66/0xc8
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<0214af4f>] do_lookup+0x43/0x72
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<0214b494>] link_path_walk
+0x516/0x6e2
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<02135342>] follow_page+0xda/0xe5
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<0214b8b3>] path_lookup+0xf8/0x128
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<0214bee9>] open_namei+0x93/0x3eb
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<02135342>] follow_page+0xda/0xe5
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<0214098f>] filp_open+0x23/0x3c
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:  [<02140cde>] sys_open+0x31/0x7d
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel:
Feb  9 12:32:40 sam-accunet kernel: Code: 51 89 e0 e8 5a 62 fb ff 8b 54
24 04 8b 04 24 89 53 5
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After I get this no program can access the file system.  Its as if the
disks have disappeared.   If it was a controller failure or some other
hardware failure would I not get earlier messages on the syslog instead
of failure like this?