hi please help! my Debian system , (Pentium 133) which has run seamlessly for 5 years (thru several upgrades of SW and HW) is now totally unrealible , and has been for 15 days : from time to time, apprx once a day, it suddenly freezes , for no apparent reasons; then, it doesnt even respond to ping from the net I have tried many approaches : 1) cleaned the heatsink and the fan (which actually had stuck, but now is running fine) 2) tried changing : video card , motherboard & CPU, memory , ethernet card ( I work in a university, we have a lot of old spare parts) so I am left with no ideas of what I should do, my last chances are 1) change HD (but this one was bought 3 months ago !) 2) buy a new PC altogether 3) bang my head on the wall (yes, when it crashed on friday evening after the 3rd total rearragnment of HW, I had that temptation) the only sign that I have had are some 'general protection faults' from the kernel which I cant 'decrypt' I am running kernel 2.2.18 ( Debian packaging) I attach a file , may you please tell me if that message can suggest a solution to the prbl thanks thanks for any hint a.
/var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: general protection fault: 2000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: CPU: 0 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: EIP: 0010:[load_elf_interp+398/700] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: EFLAGS: 00013202 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: eax: 00000005 ebx: c0e746c0 ecx: c03b5db0 edx: c197e970 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c03b5db0 ebp: 00000000 esp: c03b5cd8 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: Process sh (pid: 19916, process nr: 73, stackpage=c03b5000) /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: Stack: 00000000 c107f610 00000005 00000802 00000000 00000004 ffffffff 00000000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: 00000000 00000000 c0e746c0 c197e970 c0136412 c03b5db0 c1f52460 c03b5d80 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: c02b68a0 c03b4000 fffffff8 c03b5e68 00000000 00000080 080b2320 c09feb5c /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: Call Trace: [load_elf_binary+1862/2696] [search_binary_handler+70/300] [do_execve+387/488] [do_execve+420/488] [sys_execve+44/88] [system_call+52/56] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:24:03 Tonelli kernel: Code: 64 07 83 7c 24 2c 00 74 08 c7 44 24 14 12 08 00 00 8b 43 08 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: general protection fault: 2000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: CPU: 0 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: EIP: 0010:[load_elf_interp+398/700] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: eax: 00000005 ebx: c0e74870 ecx: c1965db0 edx: c1852a80 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c1965db0 ebp: 00000000 esp: c1965cd8 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Process sh (pid: 19921, process nr: 97, stackpage=c1965000) /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Stack: 00000000 c107fb60 00000005 00000802 00000000 00000004 ffffffff 00000000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: 00000000 00000000 c0e74870 c1852a80 c0136412 c1965db0 c1f52460 c1965d80 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: c02b68a0 c1964000 fffffff8 c1965e68 00000000 00000080 080b2320 c09fee9c /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Call Trace: [load_elf_binary+1862/2696] [search_binary_handler+70/300] [do_execve+387/488] [do_execve+420/488] [sys_execve+44/88] [system_call+52/56] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Code: 64 07 83 7c 24 2c 00 74 08 c7 44 24 14 12 08 00 00 8b 43 08 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: general protection fault: 2000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: CPU: 0 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: EIP: 0010:[load_elf_interp+398/700] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: eax: 00000005 ebx: c10f9ac0 ecx: c0bf9db0 edx: c0a880c0 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c0bf9db0 ebp: 00000000 esp: c0bf9cd8 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Process sh (pid: 19922, process nr: 91, stackpage=c0bf9000) /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Stack: 00000000 c107fd80 00000005 00000802 00000000 00000004 ffffffff 00000000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: 00000000 00000000 c10f9ac0 c0a880c0 c0136412 c0bf9db0 c1f52460 c0bf9d80 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: c02b68a0 c0bf8000 fffffff8 c0bf9e68 00000000 00000080 080b2320 c09fe33c /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Call Trace: [load_elf_binary+1862/2696] [search_binary_handler+70/300] [do_execve+387/488] [do_execve+420/488] [sys_execve+44/88] [system_call+52/56] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Code: 64 07 83 7c 24 2c 00 74 08 c7 44 24 14 12 08 00 00 8b 43 08 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: general protection fault: 2000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: CPU: 0 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: EIP: 0010:[load_elf_interp+398/700] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: eax: 00000005 ebx: c0e74cf0 ecx: c186ddb0 edx: c197e610 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: c186ddb0 ebp: 00000000 esp: c186dcd8 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Process sh (pid: 19923, process nr: 93, stackpage=c186d000) /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Stack: 00000000 c107f500 00000005 00000802 00000000 00000004 ffffffff 00000000 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: 00000000 00000000 c0e74cf0 c197e610 c0136412 c186ddb0 c1f52460 c186dd80 /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: c02b68a0 c186c000 fffffff8 c186de68 00000000 00000080 080b2320 c09fecfc /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Call Trace: [load_elf_binary+1862/2696] [search_binary_handler+70/300] [do_execve+387/488] [do_execve+420/488] [sys_execve+44/88] [system_call+52/56] /var/log/syslog.4.gz:Mar 16 15:25:03 Tonelli kernel: Code: 64 07 83 7c 24 2c 00 74 08 c7 44 24 14 12 08 00 00 8b 43 08
