Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
- Original Message - From: Pippin Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 5:39 AM Subject: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle Hi all, I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I am. My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be. Basically, I installed Mandrake 8.2 a few days ago, and it's crashed once or twice a day since then. I was tolerating it, until this morning's crash when my root partition was damaged. Now I want to get to the bottom of it. When it's crashed I can see that my CPU meter is suggest a very high CPU load (around 4 lines high on a standard xload meter). Various things lock up, generally my web browser. I'm suspicious of mozilla/galeon at present, but don't really know for sure. Eventually the whole thing dies, and I can ctrl-alt-F1 etc to get to a shell, but if I run anything (like pine) the whole thing stops, and eventually I can't do anything (like login from another prompt). At that point I have to reset my computer... As I said, this morning the disk was damaged by this, and I had to manually run fsck to fix it up. Annoying. Anyone experience similar weird problems? I'm going to try not running any mozilla based browsers for a while, to see if that helps at all. I'll let you know if it does. Thanks for any help you can offer me! Pippin Barr Hi Pippin Barr, I'm Having a very similar problem here also.. but haven't yet been able to figure out what exactly is causing the problem. I've tried several suggestions ( differen video board/ settings) Mouse settings etc. all to no avail.. My Machine Crashes almost always while trying to download web pages or mail. does not seem to matter what Brower or email client I'm using.. It Crashes with mozzila , opera, konquerer equally as well. Please if you should find out the cure post it to the group so others that may be having the same problems can benifit. Also it may help to list your machines equipment parameters so others can see if it's the same chipset video or something else smimilar. My Machine is has a SIS 730s Chip set AmD Athlon 950Mhz Proc. 512 MB Ram with 32 MB share with video Card. someone help us.. have a nice day Dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle
- Original Message - From: et [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 6:40 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle are you running out of swap? disk space? (when I run out of space in /home, often the first place I notice is hitting a menu item in a browser) do you have an append statement in /etc/lilo.conf that says mem=465? (or some number that subtracts the shared video memory amount from total system ram ie.; 512 - 32 = 470 and I add a couple a megs to be sure it really had 512 to start) On Wednesday 03 July 2002 05:06 am, you wrote: - Original Message - From: Pippin Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 03, 2002 5:39 AM Subject: [newbie] Strange crashes when idle Hi all, I don't know if I consider myself a newbie, having run linux of some sort for about three years, but I don't consider myself an expert, so here I am. My problem is unfortunately hard to describe, and what I'm really looking for is ideas for establishing what the problem might be. Basically, I installed Mandrake 8.2 a few days ago, and it's crashed once or twice a day since then. I was tolerating it, until this morning's crash when my root partition was damaged. Now I want to get to the bottom of it. When it's crashed I can see that my CPU meter is suggest a very high CPU load (around 4 lines high on a standard xload meter). Various things lock up, generally my web browser. I'm suspicious of mozilla/galeon at present, but don't really know for sure. Eventually the whole thing dies, and I can ctrl-alt-F1 etc to get to a shell, but if I run anything (like pine) the whole thing stops, and eventually I can't do anything (like login from another prompt). At that point I have to reset my computer... As I said, this morning the disk was damaged by this, and I had to manually run fsck to fix it up. Annoying. Anyone experience similar weird problems? I'm going to try not running any mozilla based browsers for a while, to see if that helps at all. I'll let you know if it does. Thanks for any help you can offer me! Pippin Barr Hi Pippin Barr, I'm Having a very similar problem here also.. but haven't yet been able to figure out what exactly is causing the problem. I've tried several suggestions ( differen video board/ settings) Mouse settings etc. all to no avail.. My Machine Crashes almost always while trying to download web pages or mail. does not seem to matter what Brower or email client I'm using.. It Crashes with mozzila , opera, konquerer equally as well. Please if you should find out the cure post it to the group so others that may be having the same problems can benifit. Also it may help to list your machines equipment parameters so others can see if it's the same chipset video or something else smimilar. My Machine is has a SIS 730s Chip set AmD Athlon 950Mhz Proc. 512 MB Ram with 32 MB share with video Card. someone help us.. have a nice day Dave Yes I have the append statement mem=480M and I have 980M swap space I think but I will check that out today .. thanks dave --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.373 / Virus Database: 208 - Release Date: 7/1/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
Ben, try the following (I'm Assuming your trying to load Mandrake 8.2) when the splash screen comes up hit F1 then at the boot prompt type in linux mem=xxxM without the quotes and replace xxx with the amount of ram memory not shared with video. See if that won't get the install started. hope this is of help. Dave - Original Message - From: ben harker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MandrakeNewbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 24, 2002 10:54 PM Subject: [newbie] Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! hey guys, im trying to install mandrake on my old computer. its a: Intel P3 550 SDRAM 192M 1.2G HDD 8M Onboard Voodoo 3 Onboard Creative SB 128 i get an error message saying: Code: 8b 01 85 45 fc 74 52 31 c0 9c 8f ec fa c7 01 00 00 00 00 0Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! attempt to access beyond end of device if you could give me any details on how to fix the problem or if its impossible to fix, it would be great. -- www.tasmail.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/02 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
