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Re: Kernel Panics



Does it always happen when you run iptraf?  it could be a network driver
problem or a network card hardware problem.

a good way to test the board/cpu/hdd and i/o subsystems that i have found
is running 10x copies of seti@home at the same time for 24-48 hours, if
the machine lasts 24 hours without a hitch then the problem is something
else.  also make sure the kernel your using was compiled with gcc 2.7.2.3
and not anything else(it shows you in the bootup messages, use 'dmesg' to
see the last couple hundred kernel messages)

and also make sure your using a stable well tested kernel, in my
experience the 2.0.36 kernel is rock solid, and 2.2.10 is quite solid as
well.

nate

On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Peter Ludwig wrote:

khan >Just a quick note, I'm starting to wonder about my hardware.  For the last
khan >few months (since I reloaded the system back to running slink in fact), I
khan >have been receiving errors similar to the following message :-
khan >
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Oops: 0000
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: CPU:    0
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: EIP:    0010:[con_write+14/40]
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: eax: c018e670   ebx: c19cc000   ecx:
khan >c1515f3b
khan > edx: 0806596d
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: esi: c19cc000   edi: 0000004f   ebp:
khan >c1515eec
khan > esp: c1515ec0
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Process iptraf (pid: 2855, process nr:
khan >61, stackpage=c1515000)
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Stack: 0000004f c19cc000 c0193e33
khan >c19cc000 00000000 c1515eec 0000004f 0000004f
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel:        080658f8 c19cc000 c1514000
khan >3b345b1b 1b483535 313b305b 6d313b30 36335b1b
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel:        345b1b6d 1b386d34 4733365b
khan >5b1b3239 313b3432 5b1b4834 30313b30 335b1b6d
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Call Trace: [opost_block+343/356]
khan >[write_chan+339/564] [tty_write+442/524] [write_chan+0/564]
khan >[sys_write+211/264] [system_call+52/56]
khan >Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Code: ff 74 24 18 53 e8 28 f4 ff ff 89 c6
khan >53 e8 f0 00 00 00 89 f0
khan >
khan >Usually, after this happens I loose total control of the system, and the
khan >only way to get the system back under control is to do a total reboot of
khan >the system.
khan >
khan >The other fun ones are things that start as :-
khan >unable to handle kernel paging request
khan >
khan >Then the system just dies.  I'm wondering if my hardware is faulty?
khan >
khan >Does anyone have any idea on what might be at fault here?
khan >
khan >The System has :-
khan >- AMD K6/2-233
khan >- Jetway JFE-530TX Motherboard
khan >- Adaptec 1542CF SCSI Card
khan >- 2xQuantum Empire 1080S (one's with the older firmware, it's baaad!)
khan >- 1xSeagate HDD (Not sure of model, it's a full height 5.25" 1.4Gig SCSI)
khan >- 32Megabytes of RAM
khan >- Kingston Network Card (I think it's the KFE-120TX, but can't remember
khan >off the top of my head, it's a 10/100 PCI card...)
khan >
khan >I have replaced the RAM once already, so I know that is not faulty (the
khan >old RAM is running perfectly in my other system).
khan >
khan >I have also replaced the CPU, that didn't help much.
khan >
khan >I am running potato now (I upgraded it all the way, just in case I had old
khan >packages that hated my system or something <grin>).
khan >
khan >The only things I'm left with thinking is faulty is the Motherboard, or
khan >SCSI card.  I have a spare CPU around the place, but I don't have spare
khan >motherboard or SCSI card here at the moment (grin).  I plan on making
khan >another machine, but that's not going to be for a little while yet.
khan >
khan >Regards,
khan >	Peter Ludwig
khan >
khan >
khan >
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khan >

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