Re: [newbie] GPF on shutdown - help
On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, you wrote: What does this all mean? And how do I fix it? --- Yes I did a proper shutdown! System: AMD 350 / 256meg pc-100 ram / WD 13 gig hd only half of drive partitioned .. using disk drude .. only os on hd .. know the os is below the 1024 range as whole hd only has 1582 sec. hda1 3gig/ -- Mandrake 6.1 hda5 3 gig unmounted and empty -- future bsd maybe hda6 2 gig /hold -- used for my downloads hda7 127 meg swap rest unpartitioned - NOTE: I had same error when I installed RH 6.0 on drive from CD .. this install was via ftp - Then possably you have flaky hardware, ie, memory, i say that because you say it happens on different installations, (distros). System works ok other than the error message, and on reboot continues to work fine. It's a new install and I just don't want to get 2 weeks into costomizing it only to find I should have fixed something and have to start over. When I shut down my Mandrake 6.1 I get the following message: (edited as I only type with 2 fingers and this already took 20 min to type what I did) Well The text "might" be in one of the system logs, check that out next time it wil save you all that typing, i suggest you read, /usr/src/linux/Documentation/opps-tracing.txt it will tell you how you can debug the text and should show just what program or system call caused the problem. ggeneral protection fault: f000 CPU:0 EIP:0050:[873b] EFLAGS: 00010047 eax: 5301 snip bla bla bla Code: Unable to handle kernal paging request at virtual address 873b current-tss.cr3 = 0e70, %cr3 = 0e70 *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[8010acde] EFAGS: 00010083 eax: 873b ebx: ecx: 0005 edx: 8edcddb8 esi: 002b edi: 8edc000ebp: 9089 esp: 8edcdd40 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process hault (pid: 626, process nr: 14, stackpage=8edcd000) Stack: f000 8edcddb8 5307 6789 f000 8edcddb8 5307 9100 0086 0001 80231da2 80231da2 8010b7ed 8edcddb8 5307 8010b7e4 801d9898 801d996d f000 0003 8edcc000 7fff831a 0019 800bd140 Call Trace: [9100] [8010b7ed] [8010b7e4] snip bla bla bla Code: 8a 04 03 25 ff 00 00 00 43 50 68 90 98 1d 80 e8 4e aa 00 00 /etc/rc/rc0.d/S00halt: line 1: 626 Segmentation fault halt -i -d Now this one look like the program halt has cause the problem, use reboot instead of halt and see what happens. Looking at the halt man page the options given above mean dont tell wtmp about closing down and shutdown interfaces as one of the last processes, now that sounds like trouble to me if you use the wrong kernel version without the new power saving system calls. -p Thanks in advance, Peacemkr1 -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] GPF on shutdown - help
Ok, everyone pay ATTENTION this time. If your seeing this, you need to edit /etc/rc.d/init.d/halt The very last line reads. eval $command -i -d -p Make it say eval $command -i -d Doing this will tell it not to power off the machine, (you will need to do it manualy), thus not triggering the apm power off. There is an unoffical patch floating around, that seems to fix this. I only know of two machines that were tested with it however. So we're still looking into useing it. As mentioned there are some pretty in-depth threads about this in the kernel list archives. I believe it's mainly super-7 boards, but i've heard reports from celeron users also. So my personal opinion is you get what you pay for, don't buy a 50$ motherboard and expect great things, unless your last purchase was a 386 :) caio.. On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, peacemkr wrote: What does this all mean? And how do I fix it? --- Yes I did a proper shutdown! System: AMD 350 / 256meg pc-100 ram / WD 13 gig hd only half of drive partitioned .. using disk drude .. only os on hd .. know the os is below the 1024 range as whole hd only has 1582 sec. hda1 3gig/ -- Mandrake 6.1 hda5 3 gig unmounted and empty -- future bsd maybe hda6 2 gig /hold -- used for my downloads hda7 127 meg swap rest unpartitioned - NOTE: I had same error when I installed RH 6.0 on drive from CD .. this install was via ftp - System works ok other than the error message, and on reboot continues to work fine. It's a new install and I just don't want to get 2 weeks into costomizing it only to find I should have fixed something and have to start over. When I shut down my Mandrake 6.1 I get the following message: (edited as I only type with 2 fingers and this already took 20 min to type what I did) general protection fault: f000 CPU:0 EIP:0050:[873b] EFLAGS: 00010047 eax: 5301 snip bla bla bla Code: Unable to handle kernal paging request at virtual address 873b current-tss.cr3 = 0e70, %cr3 = 0e70 *pde = Oops: CPU:0 EIP:0010:[8010acde] EFAGS: 00010083 eax: 873b ebx: ecx: 0005 edx: 8edcddb8 esi: 002b edi: 8edc000ebp: 9089 esp: 8edcdd40 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process hault (pid: 626, process nr: 14, stackpage=8edcd000) Stack: f000 8edcddb8 5307 6789 f000 8edcddb8 5307 9100 0086 0001 80231da2 80231da2 8010b7ed 8edcddb8 5307 8010b7e4 801d9898 801d996d f000 0003 8edcc000 7fff831a 0019 800bd140 Call Trace: [9100] [8010b7ed] [8010b7e4] snip bla bla bla Code: 8a 04 03 25 ff 00 00 00 43 50 68 90 98 1d 80 e8 4e aa 00 00 /etc/rc/rc0.d/S00halt: line 1: 626 Segmentation fault halt -i -d -p Thanks in advance, Peacemkr1 -- MandrakeSoft http://www.mandrakesoft.com/ --Axalon
