Latest XFree86 fix turns system unstable

8 Mar 2004

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Hello,

I installed the latest XFree86 security fix yesterday. Since then my X server 
crashed twice :(.

The system is running SuSE 8.2 Professional (Kernel k_athlon-2.4.20-105, KDE 
was updated to 3.1.4 through YaST using the rpms from ftp.suse.com). Fixes 
installed were

XFree86-server-4.3.0-120
XFree86-4.3.0-120

Hardware is a Asus A7M266 with Athlon 1333 MHz, 512 MB RAM, video adapter is a 
MSI GeForce4 TI4200-8X.

I'm using the latest nVidia driver (1.0-5336) and it was reinstalled after 
applying the XFree86 fixes.

After the X server crashed it tried to restart, but without success. It wasn't 
possible to log on through a virtual console to shut down the system or even 
sync the disks, I had to do a hard reset.

- From /var/log/messages:

Mar  8 07:39:50 frodo kdm[3131]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly
Mar  8 07:39:55 frodo kdm[3160]: pam_unix2: session finished for user osc, 
service xdm
Mar  8 07:39:55 frodo resmgr[811]: accepted connection from user root
Mar  8 07:39:55 frodo resmgr[811]: disconnect from root
Mar  8 07:40:01 frodo kdm[4058]: pam_unix2: session started for user osc, 
service xdm
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 96fbf720
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: c013c739
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Sat Feb 7 
02:00:47 UTC 2004
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_alloc+89/240]    
Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c013c739>]    Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: eax: b5a979b2   ebx: b5a979b2   ecx: c0561040   
edx: d157b3c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: esi: c160b0c0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 000001f0   
esp: d1619e7c
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Process nscd (pid: 3088, stackpage=d1619000)
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Stack: 00000296 00000000 00000005 00000000 
bf7ff970 dff98400 c015ca95 c160b0c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        000001f0 00000005 d2d07ba0 bf7ff970 
00000000 c015dd27 dff98400 c023fd24
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        dff98400 c023fc9c cf6629c0 00000005 
00000000 00000005 c0240b67 00000003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [alloc_inode+293/320] 
[new_inode+23/96] [sock_alloc+20/160] [sockfd_lookup+28/144] 
[sys_accept+87/320]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [<c015ca95>] [<c015dd27>] 
[<c023fd24>] [<c023fc9c>] [<c0240b67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [sock_poll+41/48] [do_pollfd+79/144] 
[poll_freewait+58/80] [sys_poll+856/928] [sys_socketcall+217/608] 
[system_call+51/56]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [<c0240389>] [<c015806f>] [<c015770a>] 
[<c0158528>] [<c0241899>] [<c0108e67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af 5e 18 89 41 14 03 59 0c 
40 74 42 57 9d 89
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 96fbf720
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: c013c739
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Sat Feb 7 
02:00:47 UTC 2004
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_alloc+89/240]    
Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c013c739>]    Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010007
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: eax: b5a979b2   ebx: b5a979b2   ecx: c0561040   
edx: d157b3c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: esi: c160b0c0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 000001f0   
esp: d2d05e7c
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Process nscd (pid: 3076, stackpage=d2d05000)
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Stack: 00000296 00000000 00000005 00000000 
bffffae4 dff98400 c015ca95 c160b0c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        000001f0 00000005 d2d07ba0 bffffae4 
00000000 c015dd27 dff98400 c023fd24
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        dff98400 c023fc9c cf6629c0 00000005 
ffffffd0 00000005 c0240b67 00000003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [alloc_inode+293/320] 
[new_inode+23/96] [sock_alloc+20/160] [sockfd_lookup+28/144] 
[sys_accept+87/320]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [<c015ca95>] [<c015dd27>] 
[<c023fd24>] [<c023fc9c>] [<c0240b67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [sock_poll+41/48] [do_pollfd+79/144] 
[poll_freewait+58/80] [sys_poll+856/928] [sys_socketcall+217/608] 
[system_call+51/56]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [<c0240389>] [<c015806f>] [<c015770a>] 
[<c0158528>] [<c0241899>] [<c0108e67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af 5e 18 89 41 14 03 59 0c 
40 74 42 57 9d 89
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 96fbf720
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: c013c739
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Sat Feb 7 
02:00:47 UTC 2004
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_alloc+89/240]    
Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c013c739>]    Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010007
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: eax: b5a979b2   ebx: b5a979b2   ecx: c0561040   
edx: d157b3c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: esi: c160b0c0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 000001f0   
esp: d1689e7c
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Process nscd (pid: 3092, stackpage=d1689000)
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Stack: 00000296 00000000 00000005 00000000 
00000000 dff98400 c015ca95 c160b0c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        000001f0 00000005 d2d07ba0 00000000 
00000000 c015dd27 dff98400 c023fd24
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        dff98400 c023fc9c cf6629c0 00000005 
00000000 00000005 c0240b67 00000003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [alloc_inode+293/320] 
[new_inode+23/96] [sock_alloc+20/160] [sockfd_lookup+28/144] 
[sys_accept+87/320]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [<c015ca95>] [<c015dd27>] 
[<c023fd24>] [<c023fc9c>] [<c0240b67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [sock_poll+41/48] [do_pollfd+79/144] 
[poll_freewait+58/80] [sys_poll+856/928] [sys_socketcall+217/608] 
[system_call+51/56]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [<c0240389>] [<c015806f>] [<c015770a>] 
[<c0158528>] [<c0241899>] [<c0108e67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af 5e 18 89 41 14 03 59 0c 
40 74 42 57 9d 89
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 96fbf720
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: c013c739
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Sat Feb 7 
02:00:47 UTC 2004
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_alloc+89/240]    
Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c013c739>]    Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: eax: b5a979b2   ebx: b5a979b2   ecx: c0561040   
edx: d157b3c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: esi: c160b0c0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 000001f0   
esp: d1acde7c
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Process nscd (pid: 3091, stackpage=d1acd000)
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Stack: c020c508 c03cce70 00000005 00000000 
00000000 dff98400 c015ca95 c160b0c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        000001f0 00000005 d2d07ba0 00000000 
00000000 c015dd27 dff98400 c023fd24
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        dff98400 c023fc9c cf6629c0 00000005 
00000000 00000005 c0240b67 00000003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [ide_do_request+504/832] 
[alloc_inode+293/320] [new_inode+23/96] [sock_alloc+20/160] 
[sockfd_lookup+28/144]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [<c020c508>] [<c015ca95>] 
[<c015dd27>] [<c023fd24>] [<c023fc9c>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [sys_accept+87/320] [do_IRQ+125/176] 
[sock_poll+41/48] [do_pollfd+79/144] [poll_freewait+58/80] [sys_poll+856/928]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [<c0240b67>] [<c010a8cd>] [<c0240389>] 
[<c015806f>] [<c015770a>] [<c0158528>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [sys_socketcall+217/608] [system_call+51/56]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [<c0241899>] [<c0108e67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af 5e 18 89 41 14 03 59 0c 
40 74 42 57 9d 89
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 96fbf720
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: c013c739
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Sat Feb 7 
02:00:47 UTC 2004
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_alloc+89/240]    
Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c013c739>]    Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010007
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: eax: b5a979b2   ebx: b5a979b2   ecx: c0561040   
edx: d157b3c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: esi: c160b0c0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 000001f0   
esp: d15d3e7c
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Process nscd (pid: 3090, stackpage=d15d3000)
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Stack: 00000296 00000000 00000005 00000000 
00000000 dff98400 c015ca95 c160b0c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        000001f0 00000005 d2d07ba0 00000000 
00000000 c015dd27 dff98400 c023fd24
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        dff98400 c023fc9c cf6629c0 00000005 
00000000 00000005 c0240b67 00000003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [alloc_inode+293/320] 
[new_inode+23/96] [sock_alloc+20/160] [sockfd_lookup+28/144] 
[sys_accept+87/320]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [<c015ca95>] [<c015dd27>] 
[<c023fd24>] [<c023fc9c>] [<c0240b67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [sock_poll+41/48] [do_pollfd+79/144] 
[poll_freewait+58/80] [sys_poll+856/928] [sys_socketcall+217/608] 
[system_call+51/56]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [<c0240389>] [<c015806f>] [<c015770a>] 
[<c0158528>] [<c0241899>] [<c0108e67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af 5e 18 89 41 14 03 59 0c 
40 74 42 57 9d 89
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 96fbf720
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: c013c739
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Sat Feb 7 
02:00:47 UTC 2004
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_alloc+89/240]    
Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c013c739>]    Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: eax: b5a979b2   ebx: b5a979b2   ecx: c0561040   
edx: d157b3c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: esi: c160b0c0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 000001f0   
esp: d1119e7c
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Process nscd (pid: 3089, stackpage=d1119000)
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Stack: 00000296 00000000 00000005 00000000 
00000000 dff98400 c015ca95 c160b0c0
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        000001f0 00000005 d2d07ba0 00000000 
00000000 c015dd27 dff98400 c023fd24
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:        dff98400 c023fc9c cf6629c0 00000005 
00000000 00000005 c0240b67 00000003
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [alloc_inode+293/320] 
[new_inode+23/96] [sock_alloc+20/160] [sockfd_lookup+28/144] 
[sys_accept+87/320]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [<c015ca95>] [<c015dd27>] 
[<c023fd24>] [<c023fc9c>] [<c0240b67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [sock_poll+41/48] [do_pollfd+79/144] 
[poll_freewait+58/80] [sys_poll+856/928] [sys_socketcall+217/608] 
[system_call+51/56]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel:   [<c0240389>] [<c015806f>] [<c015770a>] 
[<c0158528>] [<c0241899>] [<c0108e67>]
Mar  8 07:40:02 frodo kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af 5e 18 89 41 14 03 59 0c 
40 74 42 57 9d 89
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at 
virtual address 96fbf720
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: c013c739
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: Oops: 0000 2.4.20-4GB-athlon #1 Sat Feb 7 
02:00:47 UTC 2004
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[kmem_cache_alloc+89/240]    
Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c013c739>]    Tainted: PF
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: EFLAGS: 00010003
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: eax: b5a979b2   ebx: b5a979b2   ecx: c0561040   
edx: 00000001
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: esi: c160b0c0   edi: 00000246   ebp: 000001f0   
esp: d31e9e88
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: Process top (pid: 3157, stackpage=d31e9000)
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: Stack: 00000018 05430002 00000001 00000000 
00000002 c160f800 c015ca95 c160b0c0
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel:        000001f0 00000001 dffea000 00000002 
c861e2c0 c015dd27 c160f800 c016cca3
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel:        c160f800 00000001 dffea000 c160d440 
c016d295 c160f800 dffea000 00000002
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [alloc_inode+293/320] 
[new_inode+23/96] [proc_pid_make_inode+35/192] [proc_pid_lookup+229/496] 
[real_lookup+199/240]
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: Call Trace:    [<c015ca95>] [<c015dd27>] 
[<c016cca3>] [<c016d295>] [<c01521d7>]
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel:   [link_path_walk+1343/2320] [path_lookup+57/80] 
[__user_walk+73/128] [filldir64+0/304] [sys_stat64+31/128] 
[system_call+51/56]
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel:   [<c015286f>] [<c0152f39>] [<c01531e9>] 
[<c0157480>] [<c014f5df>] [<c0108e67>]
Mar  8 07:40:03 frodo kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af 5e 18 89 41 14 03 59 0c 
40 74 42 57 9d 89
Mär  8 07:40:20 frodo gconfd (osc-3748): GConf-Server wird nicht verwendet, 
wird beendet.
Mär  8 07:40:20 frodo gconfd (osc-3748): Beendet
Mar  8 07:40:42 frodo kdm[3131]: Server for display :0 terminated unexpectedly

- -- 
Ciao,
	Oliver

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Current Linux uptime: 0 hours 48 minutes.
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Latest XFree86 fix turns system unstable

Oliver Schwabedissen