Topic: Kernel Panic while transferring files

[Allen]

anyone experience this issue?

I'm running SME 5.6 on a dual Celeron 500, RAID 1 drives (12 gig), 512+ RAM, 10/100 card.

I'm drag-n-dropping a file from my local system to my shared folder...then a little later it hoses, saying that no connection is available.

I can't ping the box at all..and when I go to look at the screen, I see a nice Kernel Panic Message and I have to physically reboot the box ungracefully (everthing locks up). Almost reminds me of a BSOD.

It seems that while doing a large file transfer...this happens.  It's done it twice in the last 2 weeks.

any thoughts?

~Allen

[Michael Soulier]

Allen wrote:
>
> anyone experience this issue?
>
> I'm running SME 5.6 on a dual Celeron 500, RAID 1 drives (12
> gig), 512+ RAM, 10/100 card.
>
> It seems that while doing a large file transfer...this
> happens.  It's done it twice in the last 2 weeks.

Always look at what's running in kernel space for a panic. If it's on a large file transfer, I would suspect an ethernet driver. Try changing ethernet cards, and if you can confirm that it is the driver, please tell the proper developers about it so that they can fix it.

Mike

[Graeme Fleming]

.. looks like the NIC may be hosed; I suspect the LAN driver is locking things up when the NIC drops its bundle, if your really lucky the NIC is just frozen and not releasing the PCI bus

Do you have another identical NIC to drop in to test??

I do recall seeing several threads about slow file copying, you may want to peruse these in case they can shed any light on the prob.

.. of course I could be wrong ..

[Brascoe]

Allen wrote:
>
> I can't ping the box at all..and when I go to look at the
> screen, I see a nice Kernel Panic Message and I have to
> physically reboot the box ungracefully (everthing locks up).
> Almost reminds me of a BSOD.
>
> It seems that while doing a large file transfer...this
> happens.  It's done it twice in the last 2 weeks.
>

Had the same problem once on an RedHat 7.0

It was a bad nic - it ran 10mbit and the client ran 100mbit.

A new nic solved the problem, but as it was ext2 file system - I did A LOT of restore, before I was pointed in the right direction

/ Brascoe

[Allen]

Awesome tips! thanks

Yeah..the box is an older box..and quite possibly is the nic. I'll swap it out tomorrow hopefully and see what happens

thx

~Allen