System crashed with error - 'BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address'

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Issue

  • After issues in the connectivity to VMware Virtual Disks, the system crashed and rebooted with following error messages in the logs:

    mptbase: ioc0: Initiating recovery
    mptscsih: ioc0: Issue of TaskMgmt failed!
    mptscsih: ioc0: task abort: FAILED (sc=c9a8e200)
    mptscsih: ioc0: attempting task abort! (sc=f56fdb00)
     :
    mptscsih: ioc0: target reset: SUCCESS (sc=c9a8e200)
     target0:0:0: Beginning Domain Validation
     target0:0:0: Domain Validation skipping write tests
     target0:0:0: Ending Domain Validation
     target0:0:0: FAST-40 WIDE SCSI 80.0 MB/s ST (25 ns, offset 127)
     :
    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0000400a
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3
  • kernel-2.6.18-128.el5
  • VMware Virtual Disk

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