Distribution: Fedora Linux Core 1 Hardware Environment: Packard Bell Chrom@ Pentium III Mobile 700Mhz Intel 440BX motherboard 256MB RAM Software Environment: Fedora Linux Core 1 2.6.2-rc1 Problem Description: I have seen the following oops while unmounting the root filesytem on system shutdown. Previously, I had ran "prelink -av" and "sync". The root filesystem is ext2 mounted with "noatime". This is all I've been able to gather from the screen of my laptop: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0169c58>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 EIP is at iput+0x78/0x90 eax: c02a0900 ebx: cf95f4ec ecx: c03f3f80 edx: cf95f4f4 esi: c13c1c00 edi: cf95f578 ebp: c03f2000 esp: c03f3e94 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process pdflush (pid: 1734, threadinfo=c03f2000 task=c6a48080) Stack: c0170853 c13e7724 cf95f4ec c0170014 cf95f4ec c03f3f80 c13c1c78 c03f2000 c13c1c70 c13e7724 003d44be c13c1c00 c03f2000 c03f3f80 c03f3ef8 c0170106 c13c1c00 c03f3f80 0000001f c03f3f80 c03f3f00 c0139185 c03f3f80 c03f3ef8 Call Trace: [<c0170583>] writeback_release+0x13/0x2e [<c0170014>] sync_sb_inodes+0x1c4/0x260 [<c0170106>] writeback_inodes+0x56/0xb0 [<c0139185>] background_writeout+0x85/0xd0 [<c013986a>] __pdflush+0xda/0x1e0 [<c0139970>] pdflush+0x0/0x20 [<c013997f>] pdflush+0x0/0x20 [<c0139100>] background_timeout+0x0/0xd0 [<c0106f20>] kernel_thread_helper+0x0/0x10 [<c0106f25>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Code: 0f 0b 42 04 57 c7 27 c0 eb 9f 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 Please, see attached config file. Steps to reproduce: This problem is not easily reproducible.
Created attachment 1928 [details] .config file used to build the kernel
Does this problem still happen with more recent kernels?
I haven't seen it anymore, so I'm closing this bug. Thanks.