SUMMARY: Kernel panic during shutdown/reboot with Tru64 5.1b-3 (PK5)

From: Iain Barker (ibarker_at_aastra.com)
Date: 06/09/05

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    Helpful suggestions received from:

    Dr. Tom Blinn
    Christian Klein
    David (davegu1@...)
    Johan Brusche
    Roberto Mackun
    Dr. Kieran Lynch

    After a lot of in-depth analysis and debugging from Dr.Tom Blinn
    and Christian Klein at HP, I managed to isolate the problem to a
    device driver (dnb.mod) used for the HP DNBE1-BQ interface card.

    Looks like the driver doesn't unload correctly from Tru64 5.1b-3
    and causes the corruption within the kernel stack for adjacent
    drivers in memory (in our case, AdvFS and the ace console driver).

    Fortunatly the problem only seems to occur when the driver is being
    unloaded, so the problem doesn't cause any ongoing stability issue.

    thanks again for your help.

    -----Original Message-----
    From: tru64-unix-managers-owner@ornl.gov
    [mailto:tru64-unix-managers-owner@ornl.gov]On Behalf Of Iain Barker
    Sent: Monday, 06 June, 2005 14:46
    To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
    Subject: Kernel panic during shutdown/reboot with Tru64 5.1b-3 (PK5)

    Hi Managers,

    Has anyone experienced kernel panics during shutdown/reboot when using the latest Tru64 5.1b-3 (pk5) ?

    It doesn't seem to be related to the actual PK5 installation operation and doesn't impact system stability, the panic seems to occurs later when the system is subsequently shut down (shutdown -h now) or during a scheduled reboot.

    thanks.

    Shutdown at 19:07 (in 0 minutes) [pid 8052]

    System shutdown time has arrived
    /proc: Invalid argument
    Rebooting . . .

    trap: invalid memory read access from kernel mode

        faulting virtual address: 0x000000010000000c
        pc of faulting instruction: 0xffffffff000ddb94
        ra contents at time of fault: 0xffffffff000ddb94
        sp contents at time of fault: 0xfffffe0450737690

    panic (cpu 0): kernel memory fault
    syncing disks... done

    DUMP: blocks available: 12000000
    DUMP: blocks wanted: 115682 (partial compressed dump) [OKAY]
    DUMP: Device Disk Blocks Available
    DUMP: ------ ---------------------
    DUMP: 0x1300007 9004095 - 11999997 (of 11999998) [primary swap]
    DUMP.prom: Open: dev 0x5100003, block 4004096: SCSI 0 8 0 0 0 0 0
    DUMP: Writing header... [1024 bytes at dev 0x1300007, block 11999998]
    DUMP: Writing data........ [8MB]
    DUMP: Writing header... [1024 bytes at dev 0x1300007, block 11999998]
    DUMP: crash dump complete.

    halted CPU 0

    halt code = 5
    HALT instruction executed
    PC = ffffffff0048be30

    CPU 0 booting

    resetting all I/O buses


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