The most important thing first: afaik this is not a hw problem, the machine passed memtests. I was compiling a gcc on one terminal and extracting a kernel on an other. When i came back, thing message was waiting me: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5c8d0018 printing eip: c0179990 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c0179990>] EFLAGS: 00010246 eax: d5c42e00 ebx: 5c8d0000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 5be3ef36 esi: 00000001 edi: 000112db ebp: d5c42c00 esp: c5ebdbd4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process rm (pid: 10670, stackpage=c5ebd000) Stack: d5c42e00 896d896d c015d7e7 d5c42e00 5c8d0000 00000001 c5ebdf3c d5c42e00 896d896d c0066ba0 c8c4dec8 896d896d 0000004d 0000096d cf2fa310 cf228000 c0172dfb c5ebdf3c 896d896d c5ebdcb4 c5ebde94 00000001 c5ebde54 00000001 Call Trace: [<c015d7e7>] [<c0172dfb>] [<c0173944>] [<c017407c>] [<c0173573>] [<c016305d>] [<c014afae>] [<c01497e6>] [<c01428e0>] [<c01429b8>] [<c0109157>] Code: 8b 43 18 a9 00 00 10 00 74 b6 85 f6 74 06 f6 43 18 04 75 ac It was still responding, but if tried any io on disk, it hang that process. (i could still switch to another terminal, but i couldn't do anything useful there, though i could see what i type). I pressed SYSRQ+S a few times, but i'm not sure if it could sync (I don't remember the 'OK'.) Then is pressed SYSRQ+U, then SYSRQ+B. When it rebooted it had to do fsck, so the umount was unsuccessful. When i wanted to mount my secondary partition (holding only data) which is reiserfs, i got this: # mount -t reiserfs /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:04) ... journal-1226: REPLAY FAILURE, fsck required! buffer write failed Replay Failure, unable to mount reiserfs_read_super: unable to initialize journal space mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda4, or too many mounted file systems As it said above, i ran reiserfsck: <-------------reiserfsck, 2000-------------> reiserfsprogs 3.x.0b Will read-only check consistency of the partition Will put log info to stderr Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes):Yes Analyzing journal..last flushed trans 63, mount_id 11, will replay from 64 up to 66:Yes?Mount_id 11, transaction 64, desc block 1320, commit block 1400: ( 262144 16 8391 8407 8377 8378 8417 8390 8418 8409 8380 8404 8375 8414 8384 8402 8374 8405 8376 8406 8413 8412 8382 8411 8381 8383 8410 8408 8385 8415 8423 8396 8400 8370 17 8420 8401 8373 8372 8387 8379 8421 8394 8437 8365 8325 8371 8294 8213 8280 8278 8300 8295 8293 8288 8287 8315 8327 8347 8397 8398 8340 8363 8299 8426 8427 8428 8429 8430 8431 8433 8361 8422 8424 8388 8425 8362 8442 8443) Mount_id 11, transaction 65, desc block 1401, commit block 1431: ( 262144 16 8433 8391 17 8420 8300 8213 8434 8418 8423 8448 8402 8340 8415 8299 8449 8450 8451 8361 8452 8453 8362 8454 8455 8426 8435 8436 8302) Mount_id 11, transaction 66, desc block 1432, commit block 1471: ( 8436 262144 16 8391 8418 8423 8402 8340 8361 8302 8213 8299 8435 17 8438 8420 8428 8429 8433 8278 8452transaction 66, block 21 could not be replayed (554115335) transaction 66, block 22 could not be replayed (551493855) transaction 66, block 23 could not be replayed (551952614) transaction 66, block 24 could not be replayed (552083688) transaction 66, block 25 could not be replayed (549724356) transaction 66, block 26 could not be replayed (552149225) transaction 66, block 27 could not be replayed (554246409) transaction 66, block 28 could not be replayed (554311946) transaction 66, block 29 could not be replayed (554377483) transaction 66, block 30 could not be replayed (554443020) transaction 66, block 31 could not be replayed (554574094) transaction 66, block 32 could not be replayed (554639631) transaction 66, block 33 could not be replayed (554508557) transaction 66, block 34 could not be replayed (547889320) transaction 66, block 35 could not be replayed (548020394) transaction 66, block 36 could not be replayed (554705168) transaction 66, block 37 could not be replayed (554049798) ) Journal replaied Checking S+tree../ 1 (of 2)/ 1 (of 88) pass_through_tree: unable to read 538124307 block on device 0x3 Okay, lets try again: # reiserfsck /dev/hda4 <-------------reiserfsck, 2000-------------> reiserfsprogs 3.x.0b Will read-only check consistency of the partition Will put log info to stderr Do you want to run this program?[N/Yes] (note need to type Yes):Yes Analyzing journal..nothing to replay (no transactions older than last flushed one found) Checking S+tree../ 1 (of 2)/ 1 (of 88) pass_through_tree: unable to read 538124307 block on device 0x3 When i repeat, i get exactly the same. I can now mount the partition: # mount -o ro -t reiserfs /dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:04) ... Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem is_tree_node: node level 0 does not match to the expected one 1 vs-5150: search_by_key: invalid format found in block 538124307. Fsck? vs-13070: reiserfs_read_inode2: i/o failure occurred trying to find stat data of [1 2 0x0 SD] Using r5 hash to sort names ReiserFS version 3.6.25 but if i want to read from it, i get io error: # ls -l /mnt/hda4 ls: /mnt/hda4: Input/output error during mount, i get this in syslog: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:04) ... attempt to access beyond end of device 03:04: rw=1, want=68977696, limit=8891977 attempt to access beyond end of device 03:04: rw=1, want=58491776, limit=8891977 ... The motherboard is a Abit VP6, with 1 Celeron 433. # fdisk -l /dev/hda Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1247 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 16 128488+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 17 78 498015 82 Linux swap /dev/hda3 79 140 498015 82 Linux swap /dev/hda4 141 1247 8891977+ 83 Linux # fdisk -l /dev/hdg Disk /dev/hdg: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 39560 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdg1 1 521 262552+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdg2 522 1042 262584 82 Linux swap /dev/hdg3 1043 1563 262584 83 Linux /dev/hdg4 1564 39560 19150488 83 Linux Note that i boot from /dev/hdg4, which is ext2. hda4 is reiserfs. Finally, dmesg says: Linux version 2.4.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease)) #8 SMP Thu Feb 22 17:33:37 CET 2001 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 @ 0000000000000000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 0000000000000400 @ 000000000009fc00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000000f0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fec00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000001000 @ 00000000fee00000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000010000 @ 00000000ffff0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000017ef0000 @ 0000000000100000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000000d000 @ 0000000017ff3000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0000000000003000 @ 0000000017ff0000 (ACPI NVS) Scan SMP from c0000000 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c009fc00 for 1024 bytes. Scan SMP from c00f0000 for 65536 bytes. found SMP MP-table at 000f5770 hm, page 000f5000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f6000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f1000 reserved twice. hm, page 000f2000 reserved twice. On node 0 totalpages: 98288 zone(0): 4096 pages. zone(1): 94192 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM00000 Product ID: PROD00000000 APIC at: 0xFEE00000 Processor #0 Pentium(tm) Pro APIC version 17 Floating point unit present. Machine Exception supported. 64 bit compare & exchange supported. Internal APIC present. SEP present. MTRR present. PGE present. MCA present. CMOV present. Bootup CPU Bus #0 is PCI Bus #1 is PCI Bus #2 is ISA I/O APIC #2 Version 17 at 0xFEC00000. Int: type 3, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 00 Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 01, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 01 Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 02 Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 03, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 03 Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 04, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 04 Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 06, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 06 Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 07, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 07 Int: type 0, pol 1, trig 1, bus 2, IRQ 08, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 08 Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 0c, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0c Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 0d, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0d Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 0e, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0e Int: type 0, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 0f, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0f Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 2, IRQ 09, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 09 Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 2, IRQ 05, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 05 Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 2, IRQ 0b, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0b Int: type 0, pol 3, trig 3, bus 2, IRQ 0a, APIC ID 2, APIC INT 0a Lint: type 3, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID ff, APIC LINT 00 Lint: type 1, pol 0, trig 0, bus 2, IRQ 00, APIC ID ff, APIC LINT 01 Processors: 1 mapped APIC to ffffe000 (fee00000) mapped IOAPIC to ffffd000 (fec00000) Kernel command line: root=/dev/hdg4 hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi apm=power-off mem=393152K ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi ide_setup: hdd=ide-scsi Initializing CPU#0 Detected 434.813 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Calibrating delay loop... 865.07 BogoMIPS Memory: 384336k/393152k available (1003k kernel code, 8428k reserved, 334k data, 216k init, 0k highmem) Dentry-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Buffer-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX mtrr: v1.37 (20001109) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel CPU: Before vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000, vendor = 0 CPU: L1 I cache: 16K, L1 D cache: 16K CPU: L2 cache: 128K Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU: After vendor init, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: After generic, caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU: Common caps: 0183fbff 00000000 00000000 00000000 CPU0: Intel Celeron (Mendocino) stepping 05 per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 365.86 usecs. Getting VERSION: 40011 Getting VERSION: 40011 Getting ID: 0 Getting ID: f000000 Getting LVT0: 700 Getting LVT1: 400 enabled ExtINT on CPU#0 ESR value before enabling vector: 00000004 ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000 CPU present map: 1 Before bogomips. Error: only one processor found. Boot done. ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs ...changing IO-APIC physical APIC ID to 2 ... ok. Synchronizing Arb IDs. init IO_APIC IRQs IO-APIC (apicid-pin) 2-0, 2-16, 2-17, 2-18, 2-19, 2-20, 2-21, 2-22, 2-23 not connected. ..TIMER: vector=49 pin1=2 pin2=0 activating NMI Watchdog ... done. CPU#0 NMI appears to be stuck. number of MP IRQ sources: 16. number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24. testing the IO APIC....................... IO APIC #2...... .... register #00: 02000000 ....... : physical APIC id: 02 .... register #01: 00178011 ....... : max redirection entries: 0017 ....... : IO APIC version: 0011 WARNING: unexpected IO-APIC, please mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .... register #02: 00000000 ....... : arbitration: 00 .... IRQ redirection table: NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect: 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 01 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39 02 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31 03 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41 04 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49 05 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 51 06 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59 07 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61 08 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69 09 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 71 0a 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 79 0b 001 01 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 81 0c 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89 0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 0e 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91 0f 001 01 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99 10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00 IRQ to pin mappings: IRQ0 -> 2 IRQ1 -> 1 IRQ3 -> 3 IRQ4 -> 4 IRQ5 -> 5 IRQ6 -> 6 IRQ7 -> 7 IRQ8 -> 8 IRQ9 -> 9 IRQ10 -> 10 IRQ11 -> 11 IRQ12 -> 12 IRQ13 -> 13 IRQ14 -> 14 IRQ15 -> 15 .................................... done. calibrating APIC timer ... ..... CPU clock speed is 434.8052 MHz. ..... host bus clock speed is 66.8931 MHz. cpu: 0, clocks: 668931, slice: 334465 CPU0<T0:668928,T1:334448,D:15,S:334465,C:668931> Setting commenced=1, go go go PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfb3a0, last bus=1 PCI: Using configuration type 1 PCI: Probing PCI hardware Unknown bridge resource 0: assuming transparent PCI: Using IRQ router VIA [1106/0686] at 00:07.0 Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket DMI 2.3 present. 40 structures occupying 1190 bytes. DMI table at 0x000F0800. BIOS Vendor: Award Software International, Inc. BIOS Version: 6.00 PG BIOS Release: 11/06/2000 System Vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.. Product Name: VT82C694X. Version . Serial Number . Board Vendor: ABIT <http://www.abit.com.tw>. Board Name: 694X-686B (VP6). Board Version: v1.0 ~. apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x07 (Driver version 1.14) Starting kswapd v1.8 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured Linux video capture interface: v1.00 block: queued sectors max/low 255130kB/124058kB, 768 slots per queue RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx VP_IDE: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39 VP_IDE: chipset revision 6 VP_IDE: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later VP_IDE: VIA vt82c686a IDE UDMA66 controller on pci0:7.1 ide0: BM-DMA at 0xc000-0xc007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0xc008-0xc00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA HPT370: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 70 HPT370: chipset revision 3 HPT370: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later ide2: BM-DMA at 0xec00-0xec07, BIOS settings: hde:pio, hdf:pio ide3: BM-DMA at 0xec08-0xec0f, BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:pio hda: WDC WD102AA, ATA DISK drive hdc: YAMAHA CRW2100E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdd: Pioneer DVD-ROM ATAPIModel DVD-105S 012, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive hdg: QUANTUM FIREBALLlct20 20, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15 ide3 at 0xe400-0xe407,0xe802 on irq 11 hda: 20044080 sectors (10263 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=1247/255/63, UDMA(33) hdg: 39876480 sectors (20417 MB) w/418KiB Cache, CHS=39560/16/63, UDMA(100) Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077 Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 321M agpgart: Detected Via Apollo Pro chipset agpgart: AGP aperture is 128M @ 0xd0000000 NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 32768) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. devfs: v0.102 (20000622) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. Mounted devfs on /dev Freeing unused kernel memory: 216k freed SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California ISDN subsystem Rev: 1.114/1.94/1.140.6.1/1.85/1.21/1.5 loaded HiSax: Linux Driver for passive ISDN cards HiSax: Version 3.5 (module) HiSax: Layer1 Revision 2.41.6.1 HiSax: Layer2 Revision 2.25 HiSax: TeiMgr Revision 2.17 HiSax: Layer3 Revision 2.17 HiSax: LinkLayer Revision 2.51 HiSax: Approval certification valid HiSax: Approved with ELSA Microlink PCI cards HiSax: Approved with Eicon Technology Diva 2.01 PCI cards HiSax: Approved with Sedlbauer Speedfax + cards HiSax: Total 1 card defined HiSax: Card 1 Protocol EDSS1 Id=HiSax (0) HiSax: AVM PCI driver Rev. 1.22.6.2 AVM PCI: stat 0x2020a AVM PCI: Class A Rev 2 HiSax: AVM Fritz!PCI config irq:5 base:0xD400 AVM PCI: ISAC version (0): 2086/2186 V1.1 AVM Fritz PnP/PCI: IRQ 5 count 0 AVM Fritz PnP/PCI: IRQ 5 count 4 HiSax: DSS1 Rev. 2.30 HiSax: 2 channels added HiSax: MAX_WAITING_CALLS added isdn: Verbose-Level is 2 3c59x.c:LK1.1.12 06 Jan 2000 Donald Becker and others. http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html $Revision: 1.102.2.46 $ See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt eth0: 3Com PCI 3c905 Boomerang 100baseTx at 0xd800, 00:10:4b:43:68:64, IRQ 10 product code 'MN' rev 00.0 date 06-12-00 8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/MII interface. MII transceiver found at address 24, status 7849. Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives. eth0: first available media type: MII ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: 0000 ippp_ccp: allocated reset data structure d63cf800 scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices Vendor: YAMAHA Model: CRW2100E Rev: 1.0G Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0 Vendor: PIONEER Model: DVD-ROM DVD-105 Rev: 1.22 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Detected scsi CD-ROM sr1 at scsi0, channel 0, id 1, lun 0 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 40x/40x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 sr1: scsi3-mmc drive: 16x/40x cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Creative EMU10K1 PCI Audio Driver, version 0.7, 17:34:33 Feb 22 2001 emu10k1: EMU10K1 rev 8 model 0x8027 found, IO at 0xcc00-0xcc1f, IRQ 5 Tell me if can send you any useful information or you know what caused the crash. Balazs Pozsar. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/