I've been having frequent lockup, especially while booting. Once it hangs, even reset button doesn't reboot the machine. I have to turn on/off the power. I suspect my memory is going bad.
In the last lockup, some kernel messages showed up in /var/log/syslog. Can anyone decipher this into plain English? <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7fd48ac8 printing eip: c015603f *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#12] SMP Modules linked in: ppp_deflate zlib_deflate zlib_inflate bsd_comp ppp_async crc_ccitt 8250 serial_core ppp_generic slhc psmouse pcspkr snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss nfsd exportfs lockd sunrpc ipt_MASQUERADE ipt_LOG ipt_state iptable_filter ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat ip_tables ip_conntrack_ftp ip_conntrack via_agp agpgart parport_pc parport snd_ens1371 snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc 3c59x mii ext3 jbd CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c015603f>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.12.3-smp) EIP is at do_sync_read+0x9f/0xe0 eax: 00000080 ebx: d928ac40 ecx: e08623e0 edx: 00000000 esi: d14d9ee0 edi: d14d9fa4 ebp: bfea4524 esp: d14d9ed4 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process mpg123 (pid: 2523, threadinfo=d14d8000 task=d731a080) Stack: 00000080 00218b40 00000000 00000000 cfe9412c 00000000 00000001 ffffffff d928ac40 df564530 00000000 d6dd5000 00000000 c0164dcf d14d9f58 d731a080 00000000 00000000 00218b40 00000000 cfe9412c dffc3980 c0155591 d928ac8c Call Trace: [<c0164dcf>] open_namei+0x9f/0x610 [<c0155591>] dentry_open+0xf1/0x200 [<c012ec40>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x40 [<c0155490>] filp_open+0x50/0x60 [<c0156117>] vfs_read+0x97/0x100 [<c015639d>] sys_read+0x3d/0x70 [<c0102b79>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 89 44 24 60 89 44 24 64 8b bc 24 9c 00 00 00 8b 07 8b 57 04 89 54 24 40 89 44 24 3c 89 e6 8b 4b 10 52 50 8b 84 24 a0 00 00 00 50 <8b> 3c 68 40 c1 00 f9 30 c0 00 f9 30 c0 4c 68 40 c1 4c 68 40 c1 -- William Park <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Toronto, Canada ThinFlash: Linux thin-client on USB key (flash) drive http://home.eol.ca/~parkw/thinflash.html BashDiff: Super Bash shell http://freshmeat.net/projects/bashdiff/ - 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/