Re: 2.4.0-test8 tried to kill init!

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Sat Sep 16 2000 - 09:44:59 EDT

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    On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, Harley Anderson wrote:

    > I was just sitting here reading a page in lynx that I grabbed yesterday and got
    > spammed by 2 or 3 oopsies..
    > The machine had been up for approximately 44 hours with fairly light load.
    > Only caught the bottom of the 1st or second one but it had
    >
    > kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:194!

    If I'm not mistaken, this is a BAD_RANGE check,
    indicating that a page hasn't been filed away
    in the right memory zone...

    > at the bottom. The next one was from the startup script from my
    > ROM mud segfaulting,

    Sounds like memory corruption ...

    > Right after this I flicked to another VC (already logged in as
    > root), I think I tried to do a ps, but then got this monster:

    [snip bad oops]

    This sounds like either some bit errors in memory
    (memtest86 will find those), or a device driver
    scribbling over memory, or the memory not being
    refreshed or operated at the right speed (memory
    to slow for the speed you're running it at?)...

    regards,

    Rik

    --
    "What you're running that piece of shit Gnome?!?!"
           -- Miguel de Icaza, UKUUG 2000
    

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