[K12OSN] Kernel Panic!!

["Barbara Drake" <barbara drake sd72 bc ca>]

Thanks Norbert.
This is the third time I have installed the default ltsp, and I know the
services are active because 6 ws boot. The ws have from 48 to 64MB of Ram.
Have you heard of similar issues with the new version, should I try an older
version of the K12ltsp?
I corrected the NFS swap still nothing, I had trouble with video set to
"auto" (the screen would go blank), so I changed it to vesa.




Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 21:35:54 -0500
From: norbert <bear2bar netscape net>
To: k12osn redhat com
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] Kernel Panic!!
Reply-To: k12osn redhat com


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Hi Barbara,

Welcome to the club of OSS proponents in Canada .. hey ....
Although I have commercial venture promoting linux in schools
(www.xtlabs.org) your problems seems to be from a "bad" install. We
regularly use compaq deskpro as WS with 3Com905 NIC without any
problems, (we won't count that kudzu misreading of the 3com cards...). I
might suggest a clean (default) install using all the default settings -
including the ltsp server IP 192.168.0.254, create your boot disks from
romomatic and everything will work.
1) Don't use NFS swap
2) WS should have 32+MB of memory
3) Standard video so setting can be "auto"
4) Check that you have the following services active;
    nfs
    tftp
    dhcpd
    xinitd

good luck
norbert

barbara drake sd72 bc ca wrote:

>Hi everyone, I am very new with Linux.  I have just set up my first LTSP at
>an elementary school using the new 4.0 release of K12LTSP.  This is a pilot
>that will hopefully go District wide if I can get past this kernel error.
I
>have 32 Compaq Deskpro's that seem to have 3 different architectures (if
>that is relevant).
>I purchase new 3com cards for the lab and I know they work, but only 6
>machines are reaching the login screen.
>
>I am getting two different messages:
>
>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000292
>printing eip:
>
>Code: Bad EIP value
>Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init!
>
>and
>
>Unable to handle paging request at Virtual address 5911acc8
>printing eip:
>
>Code: 00 a0 ff c2 00 .....
>Kernel panic: Attemped to kill init!
>
>
>I have tried swapping ram, I added use_nfs_swap = Y just in case it is a
ram
>issue, but no luck.  I swap NIC just in case I got a bad batch but that
>wasn't it.  My boss is ready to give up but I thought someone must have the
>answer.  PLEASE HELP!!
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