See https://jenkins.qa.ubuntu.com/view/LTS%20HWE/job/sru_kernel-quantal_lts_hwe-generic_i386_pae-intel_64-mga_g200ew/14/console for the Jenkins run. The run stalled on xfstests.234.ext4, on an umount.
I was unable to run 'ubuntu-bug' on the system until I power-cycled it. The kernel bug is:
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.387848] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 000000e5
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.388315] IP: [<c12d905f>] strchr+0xf/0x30
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.388602] *pdpt = 000000003181a001 *pde = 0000000000000000
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.388998] Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.389212] Modules linked in: quota_v2 quota_tree btrfs zlib_deflate libcrc32c xfs ext2 dm_multipath scsi_dh vesafb coretemp kvm microcode dcdbas joydev hid_generic lpc_ich mac_hid lp parport usbhid hid bnx2 mpt2sas scsi_transport_sas raid_class [last unloaded: signpost]
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.390758]
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.390836] Pid: 8411, comm: setquota Tainted: G O 3.5.0-15-generic #20~precise1-Ubuntu Dell Inc. PowerEdge R210 II/09T7VV
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.391531] EIP: 0060:[<c12d905f>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 1
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.391834] EIP is at strchr+0xf/0x30
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.392036] EAX: 00003d3d EBX: c1603bf0 ECX: 00280000 EDX: 0000003d
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.392386] ESI: 000000e5 EDI: 00380800 EBP: ecc13eac ESP: ecc13ea8
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.392737] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.393039] CR0: 8005003b CR2: 000000e5 CR3: 3166a000 CR4: 000407f0
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.393391] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.393742] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.393958] Process setquota (pid: 8411, ti=ecc12000 task=ed091960 task.ti=ecc12000)
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.394393] Stack:
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.394503] 0000002d ecc13ef4 c11e8057 ece6d3c0 c17b8949 0000002c 00000000 00000034
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.394993] 0000002c d49e1400 f1fb9800 8c02c010 f1fbf800 00000000 2cbbae58 ece6d3c0
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.403764] f1fbf800 ece6d3c0 00000000 ecc13efc c11e85e2 ecc13f1c c1189e66 f2bbae50
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.421633] Call Trace:
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.430386] [<c11e8057>] _ext4_show_options+0xf7/0x670
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.439156] [<c11e85e2>] ext4_show_options+0x12/0x20
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.447677] [<c1189e66>] show_vfsmnt+0xc6/0x110
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.456318] [<c116ca70>] m_show+0x10/0x20
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.464733] [<c11709e3>] seq_read+0x203/0x380
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.473227] [<c115343c>] vfs_read+0x8c/0x160
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.481228] [<c11707e0>] ? seq_lseek+0x170/0x170
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.489125] [<c115354d>] sys_read+0x3d/0x70
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.496576] [<c15e755f>] sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.504169] Code: 19 c0 0c 01 8b 75 f8 8b 7d fc 89 ec 5d c3 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 55 89 e5 56 66 66 66 66 90 89 c6 89 d0 88 c4 <ac> 38 e0 74 09 84 c0 75 f7 be 01 00 00 00 89 f0 48 5e 5d c3 8d
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.527947] EIP: [<c12d905f>] strchr+0xf/0x30 SS:ESP 0068:ecc13ea8
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.535883] CR2: 00000000000000e5
Sep 18 23:13:42 phact kernel: [ 3605.555841] ---[ end trace de4301ed8838c116 ]---
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: linux-image-3.5.0-15-generic 3.5.0-15.20~precise1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.5.0-15.20~precise1-generic 3.5.4
Uname: Linux 3.5.0-15-generic i686
AlsaDevices:
total 0
crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 1 Sep 19 13:26 seq
crw-rw---T 1 root audio 116, 33 Sep 19 13:26 timer
AplayDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu13
Architecture: i386
ArecordDevices: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer'] failed with exit code 1:
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
CurrentDmesg:
Date: Wed Sep 19 13:29:13 2012
HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=2054f6b9-f094-4fde-b32e-b13c3ce1f007
IwConfig: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
MachineType: Dell Inc. PowerEdge R210 II
PciMultimedia:
ProcFB: 0 VESA VGA
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.5.0-15-generic root=UUID=c03ed83d-7ec2-4636-a39a-68c689687721 ro quiet
RelatedPackageVersions:
linux-restricted-modules-3.5.0-15-generic N/A
linux-backports-modules-3.5.0-15-generic N/A
linux-firmware 1.79.1
RfKill: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
SourcePackage: linux
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/06/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 1.1.1
dmi.board.name: 09T7VV
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A01
dmi.chassis.type: 23
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvr1.1.1:bd05/06/2011:svnDellInc.:pnPowerEdgeR210II:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn09T7VV:rvrA01:cvnDellInc.:ct23:cvr:
dmi.product.name: PowerEdge R210 II
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.
I believe this patch will fix the problem. I submitted it upstream some minutes ago. The crash in the oops seems to be the issue in token2str.