[Popcon-developers] Bug#640974: After installing linux-image-2.6.32-35squeeze1 popularity-contest daily cronjob gets killed

[Alexander Fortin]

Package: popularity-contest
Version: 1.49
Severity: normal

This I what I get when I run /etc/cron.daily/popularity-contest:

Message from syslogd at asimov at Sep  9 08:49:07 ...
 kernel:[41285.840016] Oops: 0000 [#5] SMP

Message from syslogd at asimov at Sep  9 08:49:07 ...
 kernel:[41285.840016] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:01.1/host0/target0:0:1/0:0:1:0/block/sdb/stat

Message from syslogd at asimov at Sep  9 08:49:07 ...
 kernel:[41285.840016] Stack:

Message from syslogd at asimov at Sep  9 08:49:07 ...
 kernel:[41285.840016] Call Trace:

Message from syslogd at asimov at Sep  9 08:49:07 ...
 kernel:[41285.840016] Code: 48 89 df e8 e3 c2 f1 ff 31 c0 40 84 ed 49 0f 45 c4 5b 5d 41 5c c3 55 53 48 83 ec 08 48 85 f6 48 8b 6f 60 74 1a 48 3b 75 10 74 14 <48> 8b 1e 48 8d 7b 60 e8 dd 86 f3 ff 48 89 df e8 ac c2 f1 ff 48

Message from syslogd at asimov at Sep  9 08:49:07 ...
 kernel:[41285.840016] CR2: fffffffffffffff3
Killed

It hangs for a few seconds, then I get back a working shell.

I know it is very likely a hardware related problem, but I thought the kernel upgrade might be related


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.2
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages popularity-contest depends on:
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.36.1   Debian configuration management sy
ii  dpkg                          1.15.8.11  Debian package management system

Versions of packages popularity-contest recommends:
ii  cron                    3.0pl1-116       process scheduling daemon
ii  postfix [mail-transport 2.7.1-1+squeeze1 High-performance mail transport ag

Versions of packages popularity-contest suggests:
pn  anacron                       <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  popularity-contest/submiturls:
* popularity-contest/participate: true