[96807] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux??????
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jose M. Sanchez)
Thu Oct 29 12:49:25 1998
From: "Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose@ex-pressnet.com>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>, <mikes@talkpsi.com>
Cc: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 12:28:33 -0500
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I'll put my money on the swap file problem...
Either the problems I listed, a driver problem with the hard drive, or your
SCSI controller is sharing an IRQ with something else...
-JMS
-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Woodby <awoodby@tir.com>
To: mikes@talkpsi.com <mikes@talkpsi.com>
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 11:45 AM
Subject: Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux??????
>Hmm, I've tried replacing everything but the Motherboard and CPU
>(with/w/o scsi, w/wo ether, dif video card, and different ram)
>
>I called the company we got the board from, they're cross-shipping a new
>board, this is the 3rd foulup on this single order, so I'd rather have
>them ship a shiny new board...
>
>Thanks immensely!
>
>--Alex
>
>
>Michael Smith wrote:
>>
>> Try resetting Bios to defaults, or downloading latest BIOS and
re-burning.
>> Could be a corrupted CMOS.
>>
>> Also, try rotating memory simms in and out...could be faulty ram.
>>
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: awoodby@bsd1.kode.net [mailto:awoodby@bsd1.kode.net]On Behalf Of
>> > Alexander Woodby
>> > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 1998 1:47 PM
>> > To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>> > Cc: redhat-install-list@redhat.com
>> > Subject: Help:General protection fault in Linux??????
>> >
>> >
>> > If anyone can help here I'd immensely appreciate it!
>> >
>> > The system is a 300Mhz PII with an Abit LX6 board, 128 megs ram,
Adaptec
>> > 2940UW SCSI, Intel 10/100 Ethercard.
>> >
>> > It's intermittently just freezing up. If anyone could just point me to
>> > what hardware could be causing this (or software), it's a new system,
>> > I'll just replace it. Also, on startup, the motherboard is halting at
>> > bios (award 4.51PG) often, displaying "CMOS checksum error - Defaults
>> > loaded" sound like a bad motherboard to me, correct?
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help people!
>> >
>> > --Alexander Woodby
>> >
>> > >From Logs.....
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: general protection: 0000
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: CPU: 0
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: EIP: 0010:[<0012f13a>]
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: eax: 72657008 ebx: 001e601c ecx:
>> > 01550803 edx: 0001804f
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: esi: 00ec0803 edi: 00ec7b00 ebp:
>> > 001e7c70 esp: 01668ec4
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs:
>> > 002b
>> > ss: 0018
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Process sh (pid: 17450, process nr:
>> > 42,
>> > stackpage=01668000)
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Stack: 01558230 01558238 bfffeaac
>> > 00000240
>> > bfff0803 001e601c 0015934d 00ec7b00
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: 01558238 00000008 00018021
>> > 025b9660
>> > 00000f5d bfffeaac bffffa34 01558230
>> > Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: 01668f60 00000002 00000000
>> > 00000000
>> > 00000000 00000000 000a625b 01558238
>
>
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