Re: amazingly, debian server keeps crashing

[Andrey Andreev <andreev@cs.helsinki.fi>]

will trillich wrote:
[snip]
> we're having trouble finding evidence anywhere
> that shows what's going south--
> 
> from "kern.log":
> 
> Apr 12 19:53:11 server kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 0000008c
> Apr 12 19:53:11 server kernel:  printing eip:
> Apr 12 19:53:11 server kernel: f8899f39
> Apr 12 19:53:11 server kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Apr 12 19:53:11 server kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]
> Apr 12 19:53:11 server kernel: PREEMPT
> Apr 12 19:53:11 server kernel: Modules linked in: ipv6 genrtc dm_mod
> capability commoncap 3c59x usbkbd usbcore ext3 jbd mbcache sd_mod
[snip]

I agree with TreeBoy that this could very well be a memory problem. I
suggest you go to

http://www.memtest86.com/#download0

and grab yourself a bootable memtest86. Then give your machine a nice
long test.

Regards,

Andro


-- 
Andrey Andreev
University of Helsinki
Dept. of Computer Science