Re: kernel 2.4.5 problems
> Hi All,
>
> recently moved to debian woody and have to admit, really was
> impressed with the installation etc.
>
> Being keen on playing around with iptables and such, tried installing
> kernel-2.4.5 image using dselect, didn't work, it would come up with
> a message asking me to append "root=" in the boot options. tried
> doing that using rdev and also root=/dev/hda1 in lilo - didn't work
> so i gave up. downloaded the sources, compiled (after altering the
> makefile to export the root= option), lilo, everything worked. Most
> of the stuff works, but I have the following problem.
I had the same problem, once you've figured it out it's easy
>
> 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.
>
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: printing eip:
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c0125e24
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>]
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000002 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx:
> 00000003 edx: 82d66560
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: esi: c10cd2ec edi: 00000002 ebp:
> 0000001d esp: c5ff7fb8
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3,
> stackpage=c5ff7000)
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Stack: c10cd308 c10cd2ec c01276fb
> c10cd2ec c5ff6000 c020efd1 c5ff6239 0008e000
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c01279dc 00000006 00000000
> 00010f00 c11e5fb8 00000000 c0105644 00000000
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: 00000078 c026bfc4
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c01276fb>] [<c01279dc>]
> [<c0105644>]
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel:
> Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d
> 4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89
>
> the above crash blames it on kswapd, but here another one
>
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: printing eip:
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: c0125e24
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>]
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000003 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx:
> 00000003 edx: 82d66560
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: esi: 00000088 edi: c4df5c44 ebp:
> c11c3be8 esp: c2249ed8
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Process md5sum (pid: 14387,
> stackpage=c2249000)
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Stack: 0000008b 00000088 c0125f3a
> c10cd2ec c012107c c10cd2ec c101f150 c4df5c44
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b c012130a c1e3c4e0
> 00000092 c4df5ba0 c1018a40 00000092 c4df5c44
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b 0000001f 00000092
> 00000009 00000009 00000092 000000ac c012167d
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c0125f3a>] [<c012107c>]
> [<c012130a>] [<c012167d>] [<c01218eb>] [<c0121820>] [<c012d6a6>]
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: [<c0106ce3>]
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel:
> Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d
> 4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89
>
> 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.
>
> again, any help greatly appreciated.
>
>
>
> Shri
>
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