From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265862AbUBBVJN (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:09:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265855AbUBBVJC (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:09:02 -0500 Received: from kiuru.kpnet.fi ([193.184.122.21]:37551 "EHLO kiuru.kpnet.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266107AbUBBVEZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Feb 2004 16:04:25 -0500 Subject: Re: Oops with 2.6.2-rc3 From: Markus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?H=E4stbacka?= To: Jeremy Andrews Cc: Kernel Mailinglist In-Reply-To: <20040202201411.GA19268@home.kerneltrap.org> References: <20040202201411.GA19268@home.kerneltrap.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-eNA2GL003WdTwwOwCfYx" Message-Id: <1075755810.15169.4.camel@midux> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 23:03:30 +0200 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-eNA2GL003WdTwwOwCfYx Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2004-02-02 at 22:14, Jeremy Andrews wrote: > Hello, >=20 > Attached is the text from a series of four Oops that ultimately locked = up my computer. This is a new server that I've been having trouble getting= stable for the past week -- this is the first Oops I've managed to capture= . It's a 2.6.2-rc3 kernel compiled/running on Fedora Core 1 on a P4. (I'v= e not tried an -mm kernel yet, I'll try that soon. I'm also thinking the s= tock gcc 3.3.2 may be problematic...?) >=20 > The computer seems to crash once or twice a day -- always a hard freeze= requiring that I press the reset button to reboot. I have not found a pat= tern -- during this crash I had the Gnome desktop up and I was balancing my= checkbook with GnuCash. >=20 > The server has 1GB of RAM, so I originally enabled HIGHMEM (as the boot= messages recommend), but this made the system even more unstable, freezing= every couple of hours. As you can see in the attached .config, HIGHMEM is= no longer enabled (and was not when this crash occured). Running memtest8= 6 for several hours did not turn up any memory errors. >=20 > It may be a problem with how I've configured my kernel, but I've tried = to be careful. Relevant information is below and attached. >=20 > Kernel version: > Linux papaya 2.6.2-rc3 #2 Sat Jan 31 22:15:02 EST 2004 i686 i686 i386 GNU= /Linux [..snip..] I heard that the PREEMPT is causing problems, earlier, try without CONFIG_PREEMPT Could you please describe what the server is serving (router or something else?) I had that kind of problem with my router back in 2.6.0-test, I don't know if it's fixed yet. =20 Markus --=-eNA2GL003WdTwwOwCfYx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBAHrsh3+NhIWS1JHARAlyfAKCaHm8lwrWhUTHbMW5sIBhYBW46ZQCgjrEz lhjUvcIvjxWuZXxHEVnqq88= =buY0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-eNA2GL003WdTwwOwCfYx--