Re: Help:General protection fault in Linux??????

["Jose M. Sanchez" <opjose ex-pressnet com>]

The diagnostic seems to indicate a paging failure.

You might not have marked the swap file properly, initilized it properly,
made it too small, or allowed Linux to set it up as a swap file at boot.

The next time you bring it up, make sure that the swap file is working...
even with 128megs of RAM you DO need a swap file active.

Run "free" or "top" and see what the available swap file size and free space
is.

-JMS

-----Original Message-----
From: Alexander Woodby <awoodby tir com>
To: redhat-list redhat com <redhat-list redhat com>
Cc: redhat-install-list redhat com <redhat-install-list redhat com>
Date: Thursday, October 29, 1998 10:55 AM
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
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Call Trace: [<0015934d>] [<0011abe4>]
>[<0011abae>] [<0011aa30>] [<0012d3b6>] [<0012d27c>] [<0010a91d>]
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Code: 89 10 c7 03 00 00 00 00 8b 74
>24 1c 66 8b 06 8b 7c 24 14 66
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging
>request at
>virtual address e820666d
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00336000, `r3 =
>00336000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: *pde = 00000000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Oops: 0002
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: CPU:    0
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: EIP:    0010:[<0012f137>]
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: eax: 2f795e2f   ebx: 00018003   ecx:
>01660803   edx: 28206669
>
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: esi: 02e00803   edi: 02e0d000   ebp:
>001e7bc8   esp: 01592ef0
>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 perl (pid: 17278, process nr:
>41,
>stackpage=01592000)
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Stack: 02e0d000 00000000 0000000b
>0166800e
>00000803 00018003 0015bfb8 02e0d000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel:        0166800e 0000000b 00000000
>02e0d000
>01592fb4 01592f7c 0000000b 00000000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel:        000a9878 0012b535 02e0d000
>0166800e
>0000000b 01592f7c 01592f7c 01592fb4
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Call Trace: [<0015bfb8>] [<0012b535>]
>[<0012b733>] [<0012b828>] [<0012993b>] [<0010a91d>]
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Code: 89 42 04 89 10 c7 03 00 00 00
>00 8b 74 24 1c 66 8b 06 8b 7c
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging
>request at
>virtual address ed612fa6
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 0307b000, `r3 =
>0307b000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: *pde = 00000000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Oops: 0000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: CPU:    0
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: EIP:    0010:[<0012f126>]
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: eax: 00018003   ebx: 2d612f7a   ecx:
>00000803   edx: 001e7bc0
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: esi: 001e4ca2   edi: 00336001   ebp:
>001e7bc0   esp: 0307cef0
>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 make (pid: 16968, process nr:
>40,
>stackpage=0307c000)
>
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Process make (pid: 16968, process nr:
>40,
>stackpage=0307c000)
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Stack: 00ec7b00 00000000 0000000b
>00336000
>00000803 2d612f7a 0015bfb8 00ec7b00
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel:        00336000 0000000b 00000000
>00ec7b00
>0307cfb4 0307cf7c 0000000b 00000000
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel:        000a625b 0012b535 00ec7b00
>00336000
>0000000b 0307cf7c 0307cf7c 0307cfb4
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Call Trace: [<0015bfb8>] [<0012b535>]
>[<0012b733>] [<0012b828>] [<0012993b>] [<0010a91d>]
>Oct 29 08:08:03 provillage kernel: Code: 8b 43 2c a3 a8 7b 1e 00 8b 13
>85 d2 74 0e 8b 43 04 89 42 04
>Oct 29 10:30:02 provillage syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
>Oct 29 10:30:02 provillage kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg
>started.
>Oct 29 10:30:02 provillage kernel: Cannot find map file.
>Oct 29 10:30:02 provillage kernel: Loaded 17 symbols from 4 modules.
>Oct 29 10:30:02 provillage kernel: Console: 16 point font, 400 scans
>Oct 29 10:30:02 provillage kernel: Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual
>console (max 63)
>
>
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