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From: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
To: Bob Richmond <bob@lorez.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:46:38 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <431BE9CE.8080302@comcast.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <431BE71F.2040901@lorez.org>

Bob Richmond wrote:

> Immediately upon boot on this system, most userland programs will 
> segfault, including mount. This causes the system to come up in a 
> bizarre state with the root filesystem mounted read-only, and nothing 
> runs without segfault. There have been numerous similar posts about 
> this problem, but they also seem to point to an associated kernel 
> message, "Bad page state" that I don't observe. dmesg (which runs 
> without segfault) returns many similar messages to:
>
> start_udev[576] general protection rip:2aaaaae0fc70 rsp:7fffffb23d90 
> error:0

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space - Seems to fix it for most 
people.

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851 for more details.

Parag

  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-05  6:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-05  6:35 Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board Bob Richmond
2005-09-05  6:46 ` Parag Warudkar [this message]
2005-09-06  6:03   ` Sander
2005-09-30 15:49   ` Bob Richmond

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