Unable to handle kernel paging request?

Hi all

My server (Redhat 7.3, no CP) freaked early this morning. I could ping it, but everything else stopped. Apache wouldn't do anything, DNS stopped, couldn't get in with SSH, etc, etc.

So I got the datacentre to reboot and then I got this from /var/log/messages:


Mar 16 04:02:09 ns syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 6ffffffd
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: printing eip:
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: 6ffffffd
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: Oops: 0000
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: autofs eepro100 8139too mii ext3 jbd
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: EIP: 0010:[<6ffffffd>] Not tainted
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel:
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: EIP is at Using_Versions [] 0x6ffffffc (2.4.18-17.7.x)
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: eax: 6ffffffd ebx: c66aae40 ecx: c62fcc90 edx: c66aae50
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: esi: c63f1c00 edi: 4001cc30 ebp: 0000001f esp: c1455f68
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c1455000)
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: Stack: c014cc85 c66aae40 c1455f88 00000246 00000246 c46b92a0 c62fcc78 c62fcc60
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: c66aae40 c014aa96 c66aae40 c1454000 c011ffc0 00000003 00000000 00000000
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: 00000282 ffffdcd9 c0131d1c 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: Call Trace: [<c014cc85>] iput [kernel] 0x45 (0xc1455f68))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c014aa96>] prune_dcache [kernel] 0x106 (0xc1455f8c))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c011ffc0>] process_timeout [kernel] 0x0 (0xc1455f98))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c0131d1c>] wakeup_memwaiters [kernel] 0xdc (0xc1455fb0))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c014ae00>] shrink_dcache_memory [kernel] 0x20 (0xc1455fc8))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c0131ad1>] kswapd [kernel] 0x301 (0xc1455fd0))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0 (0xc1455fe8))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c0107146>] kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26 (0xc1455ff0))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: [<c01317d0>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xc1455ff8))
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel:
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel:
Mar 16 04:08:49 ns kernel: Code: Bad EIP value.


Does anyone know what this means?

Thanks

Matt

 

 

 

 

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