Questions tagged [kernel-panic]
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gzip softlocks every midnight during nginx log rotation, causes kernel panic
Some of our servers run on Ubuntu 18.10. They host a few Node.JS services receiving TCP connections as upstream from nginx, as well as a websocket implementation in Dotnet Core. It's a fairly simple setup sysadmin-wise.
One of the machines started…
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Érik Desjardins
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Kernel Panic on Guest-VM (Debian 9)
I have two servers running with Debian Jessie Kernel 3.16.0-5-amd64.
Both servers have the exact same configuration, only hardware differs.
I use KVM as hypervisor together with QEMU on both servers.
When i try to install Debian 9 (Kernel 4..) on a…
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robusto
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Fedora 26 Kernel panic with the last two kernels
Until recently I was using Fedora 26 with kernel 4.13.16-202.fc26.x86_64 without problems. But the last two kernel upgrades (4.14.4-200.fc26.x86_64 and 4.14.5-200.fc26.x86_64) are giving me kernel panic. This is the only thing I was able to get…
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Luis A. Florit
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Kernel panic - not syncing Attempted to kill init after mount
I have a VPS running Debian 8 at OVH. Recently I couldn't connect to the SSH because I received the message: "access denied".
So I decided to reset the root password. I followed OVH indications in order to reset the root password:
I connected to…
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Server kernel panic after boot, don't know what to make of the logs
We just received a brand new Dual CPU server and it keeps crashing with a Kernel Panic shortly after booting, this even happened during the OS setup when it was idle. I was able to get the OS installed and enable mcelog to try and understand what is…
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BSOD BugCheck on Multi-core system - What thread caused the crash?
I am aware that a Windows' system will crash with a stop error and "blue screen" for a few common reasons, some of which may be:
A device driver or OS function that runs in kernel-mode space experiences an unhandled exception (memory access issues…
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RAID5 needs drive to be added every reboot
I have a 3 disk RAID5 mdadm array total 4TB on an Ubuntu Server 14.04.3 LTS.
Since a kernel panic caused by a device unrelated to the array and that has been already replaced, after every reboot the array starts [UU_] So I always have to run mdadm…
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Arthur
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CoreOS Random Reboot Kernel Panic with Obscure Message - How to debug?
I'm relatively new to the CoreOS world, we had a server reboot and the messaging in the Journal is extremely vague:
Sep 18 07:10:27 ip-x-x-x-x.us-west-2.compute.internal kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at …
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how to turn a rescue kernel into a working one?
A yum update today made one of my CentOS 7 servers unusable: there is kernel panic as soon as the boot starts. I tried to start previous kernels from GRUB but all of them crash the same way. I even tried to install the latest 4.1 kernel, it also…
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Server crashes with "huge task timeout"
First things first, I've read a lot about the "huge task timeout" kernel panic and know that this often happens if the server is out of resources.
Error messages which appear only in the VNC console not in any log file:
[264240.505133] "echo 0 >…
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Christian D.
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Server crashes because of SMP
My web server is crashing every few days unless I disable SMP with "nosmp" parameter in Grub config. It is not an hardware failure because the problem persists after moving everything to a new machine. Does anyone know which application could make…
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Antares
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Copying from NFS mount crashes Linux client machine
I have NFS share mounted on CLIENT in /etc/fstab:
SERVER:/share on /mnt/share type nfs (rw,users,noexec,nosuid,nodev,timeo=14,hard,intr,addr=1.2.3.4)
Intensive use on client like copying a lot of data from it crashes the host after a few…
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web server "task blocked for more than 120 seconds"
my web server is down every 2 days. it became unresponsive and I can only see the message below on the console.
task **** blocked for more than 120 seconds.
The only way to bring it up is resetting the server which is not good and I would like to…
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masber
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kvm hypervisor kernel panic
My kvm hypervisor had been running with 20+ vps guests for a few months. But a few days ago it went to kernel panic. There were no abnormal operation that I found would cause the problem, except that the hypervisor was deleting a guest and shrubbing…
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Purres
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md/raid:md2: cannot start dirty degraded array, kernel panic
After having made use of a remote power switch, my server did not come back online.
When I went to the datacenter and reboot the computer on the spot I see the server booting (I see the centos progress bar with running almost all the way to the end)…
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