Distribution: EzPlanet One and Fedora Core 2. Vanilla kernel from www.kernel.org Hardware Environment: 2 x Pentium III/700 SMP Software Environment: Problem Description: the message "kernel: pagebuf_get: failed to lookup pages" repeatedly appears on console during high volume disk access (backup). A consequence to the above is that the console locks and no more console logins are possible, although it is still possible to login to the box through ssh. According to messages posted on the netnews, this problem is related to an XFS filesystem bug. Please see below a link to the google news thread. (http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=2kzjX-84V-5%40gated-at.bofh.it&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dpagebuf_get:%2Bfailed%2Bto%2Blookup%2Bpages%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D2kzjX-84V-5%2540gated-at.bofh.it%26rnum%3D1) Steps to reproduce: run continous xfs filesystem access (backup to high speed device)
I have extracted the xfs patches present in patch-2.6.9-rc1 (the whole patchset breaks NFS functionality) and applied it to kernel 2.6.8.1. The same problem occurs although more infrequently and without the side effect of blocking the console.
Is this issue still present in kernel 2.6.15?
I'm assuming this issue is already fixed in recent 2.6 kernels. Please reopen this bug if it's still present in kernel 2.6.16.