Segmentation Faults and Paging Errors
The problem: Intermittent kernel paging errors, errors during shutdown
which result in boot to runlevel 1 on reboot. After a second shutdown
the system reboots properly.
My system - testing with a 2.4.22 kernel - was stable, no problems
whatsoever.
Wishing to take advantage of USB 2, I downloaded the source and built
kernel-2.6.0-test9. With this kernel I was unable to access my Netgear
MA311 PCI Adapter. To solve this I downloaded and installed
linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre14 from the tarball. At this point I began to
have problems - segmentation faults - so I tried to go back to my
original setup.
In /usr/src I have the following directories:
linux
kernel-source-2.4.22
kernel-source-2.6.0-test9
linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre10
linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre14
In directory linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre10 I ran
make mrproper
make config (choosing the pci option and pointing it at
the kernel-source-2.4.22 directory)
make all
make install
and rebooted with the 2.4.22 kernel. I thought this should restore the
original stable operation but it hasn't.
To confuse the issue, during this period I ran a dist-upgrade of the
testing distribution. At this time it is fullly up-to-date.
Is it something I ate - i.e. the result of the dist-upgrade (I
understand thatthe testing distribution is not guaranteed to be stable)
or a problem introduced by linux-wlan-ng-0.2.1-pre14? If the latter,
why hasn't the return to the 2.4.22 kernel and the
linux-wlan-ng-0.1.16-pre10 setup corrected the problem?
Tom
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