Networker

[Networker] Kernel Panic problem

2008-01-20 19:49:42
Subject: [Networker] Kernel Panic problem
From: Kevin West <kevin.west AT UNE.EDU DOT AU>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:46:40 +1100
SERVER
HP DL585 2 x 2.6GHz Processors
8 GB RAM
2 x 14 300GB SCSI HD arrays
attached via ULTRA 320 Adapters (for D2D backup).

LIBRARY
HP MSL6060 (2 x Stacked)
3 X LTO3 drives (SCSI)

SOFTWARE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 with kernel 2.6.9-67.0.1.ELsmp
NetWorker 7.4.1.Build.335 Network Edition

CLIENTS
Total of 75 clients (Windows, Linux & Tru64)

MODULES USED,
Oracle for Linux, MSSQL, Microsoft cluster.

SETUP
All standard nothing special.

PROBLEM
Kenrel panic - not syncing: Out of memory and no killable processes...

Have to do hard restart on the server

WHAT INTRODUCED THIS PROBLEM.

Was running REDHAT 3 and Networker 7.2.1 everything was fine.

I needed to upgrade the OS to REDHAT 4 to take advantage of the better
disk management.

So I did the OS upgrade to Redhat 4, ran into problems with Networker
7.2.1 the 2.6 kernel and the SCSI 
library.

So the solution was to Upgrade Networker to 7.3 or above. So I choose
Networker 7.4 (I have applied the patch as well), this fixed
the SCSI problems but introduced the Kernel panic problem.

Has anyone else had this problem or any suggestions.

Cheers
Kev  
-- 
Kevin West
Senior Server Support Officer
Information Technology Directorate
University of New England
Phone: +61 2 6773 4276
Fax:   +61 2 6773 3424

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