This is a recently installed firewalling router/gateway running Lenny. For two or three days it has been running for long periods with no interruptions in connectivity or with booting.
p3 500Mhz slot 1 seanix columbia sx mobo i440bx chipset Today it suddenly died in the middle of my web browsing. Didn't think to write down the message on the console (figured it would be in the logs) but it was an "end trace" message like the one below. When I rebooted with a xen'ified host kernel, the boot dropped to an initramfs prompt after waiting a couple of minutes for the root file system. I booted the non-xen kernel thinking that having only just removed two xen meta packages. When I tried to run ncurses aptitude, the screen was drawn but then stopped with an "Ouch! segmentation fault". I was able to reinstall the two metapackages with command line aptitude. Started to surf the web some more and the machine died again with the (by hand, so the spacing, capitalization, etc might be wrong) [3700.929083] EIP: [<c017119ad>] cache_alloc_refill+0xe5/0x44d ss: ESP 0068:def89dcc [3700.929083] ---[ end trace 794d24/daccc4879f ]--- So I tried rebooting with the xen kernel. As above, the boot process dropped to initramfs command prompt after waiting one or two minutes for the root file system. Anybody understand what the above means? Thanks, willy -- whollyg...@letterboxes.org -- http://www.fastmail.fm - Or how I learned to stop worrying and love email again -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org