System crashed with the message "Kernel panic - not syncing: audit: backlog limit exceeded"
Issue
- System crashed with the following call trace
Backtrace
KERNEL: vmlinux
DUMPFILE: vmcore [PARTIAL DUMP]
CPUS: 1
DATE: Mon Apr 9 12:58:07 2012
UPTIME: 1 days, 08:31:04
LOAD AVERAGE: 1.55, 1.63, 0.92
TASKS: 218
NODENAME: xxxxxxxxxx
RELEASE: 2.6.18-238.1.1.el5
VERSION: #1 SMP Tue Jan 4 13:34:58 EST 2011
MACHINE: i686 (2800 Mhz)
MEMORY: 4 GB
PANIC: "Kernel panic - not syncing: audit: backlog limit exceeded"
PID: 17302 TASK: ed52aaa0 CPU: 0 COMMAND: "find"
#0 [f0732e60] crash_kexec at c04453eb
#1 [f0732ea4] panic at c0425473
#2 [f0732ec0] audit_panic at c04474cb
#3 [f0732ed0] audit_log_start at c0447c77
#4 [f0732f18] audit_log_exit at c044c7f1
#5 [f0732fb8] system_call at c040502d
EAX: fffffffe EBX: bfe97e0e ECX: 09f30680 EDX: bfe98660
DS: 007b ESI: bfe99d22 ES: 007b EDI: 00264ff4
SS: 007b ESP: bfe97ce0 EBP: bfe97e68
CS: 0073 EIP: 00499402 ERR: 0000000b EFLAGS: 00200212
audit: audit_backlog=16385 > audit_backlog_limit=16384
audit: audit_lost=1 audit_rate_limit=0 audit_backlog_limit=16384
Kernel panic - not syncing: audit: backlog limit exceeded
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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