> Hi All, > > recently moved to debian woody and have to admit, really was > impressed with the installation etc. > > Being keen on playing around with iptables and such, tried installing > kernel-2.4.5 image using dselect, didn't work, it would come up with > a message asking me to append "root=" in the boot options. tried > doing that using rdev and also root=/dev/hda1 in lilo - didn't work > so i gave up. downloaded the sources, compiled (after altering the > makefile to export the root= option), lilo, everything worked. Most > of the stuff works, but I have the following problem.
I had the same problem, once you've figured it out it's easy > > After running for a while the kernel crashes repeatedly. The machine > is usually not being used for anything except masquerading and it is > often not even being used for masquerading when it crashes. heres a > log entry at a crash point. > > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: printing eip: > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c0125e24 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>] > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000002 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx: > 00000003 edx: 82d66560 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: esi: c10cd2ec edi: 00000002 ebp: > 0000001d esp: c5ff7fb8 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, > stackpage=c5ff7000) > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Stack: c10cd308 c10cd2ec c01276fb > c10cd2ec c5ff6000 c020efd1 c5ff6239 0008e000 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c01279dc 00000006 00000000 > 00010f00 c11e5fb8 00000000 c0105644 00000000 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: 00000078 c026bfc4 > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c01276fb>] [<c01279dc>] > [<c0105644>] > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: > Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d > 4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89 > > the above crash blames it on kswapd, but here another one > > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: printing eip: > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: c0125e24 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>] > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000003 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx: > 00000003 edx: 82d66560 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: esi: 00000088 edi: c4df5c44 ebp: > c11c3be8 esp: c2249ed8 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Process md5sum (pid: 14387, > stackpage=c2249000) > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Stack: 0000008b 00000088 c0125f3a > c10cd2ec c012107c c10cd2ec c101f150 c4df5c44 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b c012130a c1e3c4e0 > 00000092 c4df5ba0 c1018a40 00000092 c4df5c44 > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b 0000001f 00000092 > 00000009 00000009 00000092 000000ac c012167d > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c0125f3a>] [<c012107c>] > [<c012130a>] [<c012167d>] [<c01218eb>] [<c0121820>] [<c012d6a6>] > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: [<c0106ce3>] > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: > Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d > 4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89 > > another process that i have seen crashed is fcheck. > > The machine is left on overnight and when i get up in the morning, i > am greeted with something like referenced invalid pointer in virtual > memory with an address of . > > If anyone has any tips on how to track this down, to whether it is > actually linux's fault somewhere or a hardware issue or something, it > would be greatly appreciated. The box was running redhat with > kernel-2.4.4 before without the kernel crashing. > > again, any help greatly appreciated. > > > > Shri > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail > http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
