First of all I don't know if this is the best place to address this issue. If not, please let me know. I got the advise in one forum to report this kernel ooping to redhat.
Specs:
Dell Latitude C600 laptop
PIII 750 Mhz
256MB RAM
20GB HD (9 GB Linux partition)
RH 8.0 kernel 2.4.18-24
Swap partition size is 522MB
I've got a lot of kernel ooping's where RH8.0 just freezes and I have to power off unsafely and restart the machine. For instance if I leave the machine on for the night 95% of the time kernel oops. I'll put an example of the ooping, although I keep more than 6 instances in the last 4 days.
/var/log/messages:
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: Trying to vfree() nonexistent vm area (d0a48000)
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: ce447f68 00000286 00000600 c011eb7e ce4460dc cd960e00 0000000a ce446000
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: 0000ff00 c0119439 cd960e00 00000206 cd960e00 c011e046 cd960e00 00000000
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: ce446000 0000000a 406a62c1 bfffb05c c011e223 0000ff00 c0109147 000000ff
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: Call Trace: [<c011eb7e>] do_setitimer [kernel] 0xde (0xce447f74))
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: [<c0119439>] mmput [kernel] 0x39 (0xce447f8c))
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: [<c011e046>] do_exit [kernel] 0xa6 (0xce447f9c))
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: [<c011e223>] sys_exit [kernel] 0x13 (0xce447fb8))
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel: [<c0109147>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xce447fc0))
Feb 6 23:08:38 edusilva-1 kernel:
Feb 6 23:19:52 edusilva-1 gconfd (edusilva-1693): starting (version 1.2.1), pid 1693 user 'edusilva'
Feb 6 23:19:52 edusilva-1 gconfd (edusilva-1693): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory" to a read-only config source at position 0
Feb 6 23:19:52 edusilva-1 gconfd (edusilva-1693): Resolved address "xml:readwrite:/home/edusilva/.gconf" to a writable config source at position 1
Feb 6 23:19:52 edusilva-1 gconfd (edusilva-1693): Resolved address "xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults" to a read-only config source at position 2
Feb 6 23:21:52 edusilva-1 gconfd (edusilva-1693): GConf server is not in use, shutting down.
Feb 6 23:21:52 edusilva-1 gconfd (edusilva-1693): Exiting
Most of the opps are regarding kswap. Can you please help me identify what the possible issue might be? What kind of corrective action might I perform?
Also, I've had a couple of , it seemed, non-related messages at startup in BIOS telling me that the PC had to reduce the amount of physical memory available (RAM) due to some problem. Those messages came and went away and I have not noted a visible effect.
Regards,
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