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Bug#692607: linux-image-3.2.0-4-686-pae: Kernel crash when coming out of screen saver



On Wed, 2012-11-14 at 00:50 +0100, Steinar Bang wrote:
> >>>>> Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> 
> > Please send a readable photograph of this text.
> 
> The problem occurred for the third time, and I couldn't find the camera,
> so I'm typing in what's shown on the console.
> 
> This time it had happened while the macine was sitting unmanned and I
> can't say it had anything to do with the screen saver, unless someone
> unintentionally have moved the mouse.
> 
> I also note that it says "invalid opcode".  This machine has an Intel P4
> CPU.  Is it too old for the current kernels?
[...]

The kernel just uses an invalid opcode to trigger this kind of error
message in case it detects a bug.  Your CPU is more than adequate.

I'll try to make sense of this text later.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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