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timcenty
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Kernel crash

Post by timcenty » 2018/04/25 18:09:52

Hello,

We had a few kvm hypervisors crashed at the same time while create new VMs on them. The kernel crash dump shows the similar trace as mentioned at

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https://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=14426
CentOS Linux release 7.2.1511 (Core)
3.10.0-327.18.2.el7.x86_64

Does anyone if this is a bug and being worked on to provide a fix?

Thanks much

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Re: Kernel crash

Post by TrevorH » 2018/04/25 18:43:30

If it is a bug then it will have been fixed in one of the kernels included in 7.4 or 7.4 or 7.5.

What you're running is 7.2 which is from Nov 2015 and is no longer supported. You're not even running the latest 7.2 kernel. Run yum update to get up to date, currently 7.4 but 7.5 will be hitting the CR repo any day now.

CentOS only supports the latest point release. Once a new one comes out, the previous one no longer gets any updates and is moved to vault.centos.org to die.

From the looks of that bug report, I suspect you've filled up all of /dev/shm. Make it bigger or reduce your usage of it.
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Re: Kernel crash

Post by timcenty » 2018/04/25 19:30:29

Thank you. Assuming the bug has been fixed in later version, is there way to confirm that? I'm looking for the release notes but haven't found a reference of it yet. Is there any other way to confirm?

I did see sort of similar if not exact trace appearing on RHEL7.4 which is being looked at.

Thanks

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Re: Kernel crash

Post by TrevorH » 2018/04/25 19:59:04

You can read the kernel rpm changelog by running rpm -q --changelog kernel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 | less but good luck with that as it's one line per change and there are about 30,000 of them between point releases...
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