Re: kernel panic
Does your BIOS see the ram as all good? If so you may need to find
something that tests the memory a bit more rigorously.
A quick scan of the packages list gives memtest86 and memtest. Both
look like they should help you out in testing your ram.
--mike
On 10 Aug 2001 20:12:15 +0200, Marco Herrn wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> a few days ago I had the following error message while booting:
>
> --------/---------
> kmem_alloc: Bad slab magic (corrupt) (name=kmem_cache)
> Kernel panic: kmem_cache_sizes_init: Error creating caches
> In swapper task - not swapping
> --------/---------
>
> After a second reboot everything worked fine.
>
> But a few days later I had a similar problem, also on booting.
> This was the message:
>
> --------/---------
> 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 ...
> --------/---------
>
> 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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