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Re: kernel 2.4.5 problems



On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 03:26:10AM -0700, Shriram Shrikumar wrote:
> After running for a while the kernel crashes repeatedly. The machine
> is usually not being used for anything except masquerading and it is
> often not even being used for masquerading when it crashes. heres a
> log entry at a crash point.
[snip] 
> another process that i have seen crashed is fcheck. 
> 
> The machine is left on overnight and when i get up in the morning, i
> am greeted with something like referenced invalid pointer in virtual
> memory with an address of .
> 
> If anyone has any tips on how to track this down, to whether it is
> actually linux's fault somewhere or a hardware issue or something, it
> would be greatly appreciated. The box was running redhat with
> kernel-2.4.4 before without the kernel crashing.

Try copying that same redhat kernel to your system (or a floppy) and
booting it.  Maybe you compiled a kernel with cpu-specific optimizations
turned on?  It may overstress your hardware that otherwise works fine 
when running a generic x86 kernel.

Cheers,


Joost



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