[Samba] had 3 kernel panics since upgrade from 3.0.21a to 3.0.25 and 3.0.25a on CentOS 4.4

[Urs Rau]

Urs Rau wrote:

> Any clever ideas? I will explore the redhat kernel list and see if there
> is a newer one maybe one from CentOS 4.5?
> 

Should have spent some more time on this, in the first place.

I have found an entry in the redhat bugzilla, that looks like it might fit.

There are two entries in redhat bugzilla for rhel 4 error "kernel BUG at
mm/prio_tree.c"

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=185472
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=173981

Bug 173981 was closed with an ERRATA issued in mid 2006 which upgrades
the kernel up to 2.6.9-34.EL (we are still at 2.6.9-22.0.1)

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0132.html

I have now temporarily upgraded our kernel to the latest centos 4.5 one
2.6.9-55.EL.

We will monitor this and report back, hopefully the crashes are really a
kernel bug and not a samba bug and will now have been fixed by this
upgrade. Sorry, but it seemed to point in the direction of smbd, at
least at first glance.

Will be keeping you posted if this changes again.


-- 
Urs Rau