On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have an SMP machine which, every few months, comes up with a kernel > error such as the following, sometimes accompanied by a hard crash. > > -------------------------------------------------------------- > Unable to handle kernel paging request atvirtual address 1f587aa0 [.. oops message sniped ..] > > > This is a dual Pentium III with ECC memory, running Debian Woody (kernel > 2.4.18-1-686-smp). > > Any idea?
yes... you've got yourself a bug or a hardware error. in either case, it's most likely that people on this list won't be able to solve this without spending too much time on this. perhaps you'll care learning enough to debug this yourself? ;) start by thinking: 1. if it's every few month - does it happen with the exact same kernel code and configuration? did i upgrade my kernel several times between incidents? 2. if it's happening only once every few month - is there a way i can try to make it happen more often, i.e. can i reproduce it systematically in a shorter period, so i'll be able to debug this? 3. if i'm using the same kernel all this time - perhaps i should upgrade and see what gives? 4. does it always crash with the exact same oops message (i.e. apache causing a crash during 'fput' invoked from a 'close' system call? 5. if so, have i tried googling for this kind of oops message? you get the idea... -- guy "For world domination - press 1, or dial 0, and please hold, for the creator." -- nob o. dy ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
