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

[Alexander Woodby <awoodby tir com>]

The swap file was truncated because (from what I've read) there's a
limit on swap partition size of like 128 megs.   I've cut that partition
down now.

it IS active.  There are no conflicts listed in /proc that _I_ can find,
interrupts fine, etc.

Could a bad MB cause paging failure by not utilizing RAM correctly?

Now I'm confused...

Now that I've changed the swap partition size, is all supposed to be
fine?

--alex



Jose M. Sanchez wrote:
> 
> 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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