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kernel: invalidate: busy buffer

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From: B. Paris
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 07:10
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I often get this kind of message on one of my servers (which is NOT running X):

Apr 17 23:31:45 PSPshare kernel: invalidate: busy buffer
Apr 17 23:35:05 PSPshare last message repeated 27 times
Apr 17 23:36:56 PSPshare last message repeated 81 times
Apr 17 23:40:03 PSPshare last message repeated 35 times
Apr 17 23:40:03 PSPshare last message repeated 104 times

It's seems to appear when backuping on scsi2 tape. 

i wonder if this won't put the system into an instable state because
sometime the machine crash later with:

Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel:  invalid operand: 0000
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: CPU:    0
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0126d2e>]    Not tainted
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: eax: 00000040   ebx: 00000200   ecx:
c109aa9c   edx: c4cce000
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: esi: c109aa80   edi: 00000020   ebp:
00000f8f   esp: c4ccfe80
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: Process smbd (pid: 1057, stackpage=c4ccf000)
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: Stack: 00000000 c4cce000 0000018e
000001d2 c0299f68 c1207180 c6d56000 c12
070a0
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel:        00000001 00000020 000001d2
00000006 00000020 c01270e6 00000006 000
00001
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel:        c0299f68 00000006 000001d2
c0299f68 00000000 c0127150 00000020 c4c
ce000
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel: Call Trace: [<c01270e6>] [<c0127150>]
[<c0127a00>] [<c0127c65>] [<c012354
e>]
Apr 15 14:12:24 PSPshare kernel:    [<c012d475>] [<c012d2e4>] [<c0106dd3>]


Now I restart the machine just after de backup and I will see...
Any idea of whate to do ?

I use 'dump' for my backups. The machine with AMD K6 processor have only
SCSI drives (no ide).

Kernel version:
Linux version 2.4.18 (root@PSPshare) (gcc version 2.96 20000731 (Red Hat
Linux 7.3 2.96-110)) #1 Fri Oct 18 15:14:26 CEST 2002


Bernard.
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From: paris@ipsp.ucl.ac.be (B. Paris)
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Subject: kernel: invalidate: busy buffer
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2003 09:10:10 +0200
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