Re: What does this mean?

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:58:52 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:

> I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - new
> to me, but not new.  While running a script that does a disk to disk
> copy with some reformatting on a file of a few GB, I got this burst of
> lines on all open gnome-terminal windows:
> 
> #### start of cut and paste:
> Message from syslogd@gq at Jul 21 04:40:03 ...
>  kernel:[233576.618678] Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP

(...)

> Message from syslogd@gq at Jul 21 04:40:03 ...
>  kernel:[233576.618994] EIP: [<f7de2458>]
>  jbd2_journal_grab_journal_head+0xf/0x36 [jbd2] SS:ESP 0068:f6e83d38

(...)

You got a kernel oops, and Google suggests as a possible source of the 
error a bad memory RAM stick (long mode). Being a second hand computer 
you better run a memtest and run a pile of system stress tests to check 
the computer components health (mainly micro, memory and hard disks).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón