Re: Kernel Panic with Sarge

[michael <linux@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 10:47 -0400, Edward J. Shornock wrote:
> michael bailey wrote:
> 
> [..]
> > 
> > kernel: CPU 0 : Machine Check Exception:
> > 0000000000000004
> > 
> > kernel: Bank 4 : b200000000040151
> > 
> > kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
> > 
> >  After the reboot both the green power 
> > light and the orange disk light on the front of the PC
> > are steady (i.e. not flickering).
> > 
> >  Has anyone any suggestions please as to the possible
> >  cause of this ?
> > 
> >  Debian Sarge is being run on a 650 Mhz Pentium III 
> >  machine.
> > 
> >  Screen freezes have occurred before with this same
> >  setup (as previously reported to the Debian Users 
> >  Group) but without the above messages.
> 
> I suggest possibly clearing the CMOS (with the jumper or battery), and 
> maybe running mprime[1] to check for CPU problems.

I recently got kernel panics and a new CMOS battery was required.