kernel panic

["Marco Herrn" <werbe@planet-interkom.de>]

Hello list,

a few days ago I had the following error message while booting:

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kmem_alloc: Bad slab magic (corrupt) (name=kmem_cache)
Kernel panic: kmem_cache_sizes_init: Error creating caches
In swapper task - not swapping
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After a second reboot everything worked fine.

But a few days later I had a similar problem, also on booting.
This was the message:

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Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7fdaa0e4
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU:    0
EIP: 0010:[<c0121755>]
EFLAGS: 00010245
eax: 00000000   ebx: c02b8444   ecx: 00000015   edx: 00008500
esi: 00000000   edi: 7fdaa0e4   ebp: 000000a0   esp: c02fbf80
ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c02fb000)
stack: 00000000 000000a0 00000000 effef028 fffffff0 ffffffff 00000000
00000020
       00000000 00000000 00000010 00000004 7fdaa0e4 c0300377 c0257ab8
00000020
       00000000 00002000 00000000 00000000 00000000 000a0200 c0106000
c02fcc05
Call Trace: [<c0257ab8>] [<c0106000>] [<c0106000>] [<c0100175>]
Code: f3 ...
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Unfortunately the screen suddenly blanked dfor some reason so I didn't have
the chance to copy the rest of the message. Thats the reason for the three
dots at the end.


So what does this mean?
I think it is a hardware problem, but which? Is it a problem with my RAM?

I would be glad if someone could tell me.


Thanks in advance

Marco
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