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From: Felipe W Damasio <felipewd@terra.com.br>
To: Josh Brooks <user@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: CPU failures ... or something else ?
Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2002 01:41:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E0A5E65.5030601@terra.com.br> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021225175232.O6873-100000@mail.econolodgetulsa.com>



Josh Brooks wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a dual p3 866 running 2.4 kernel that is crashing once every few
> days leaving this on the console:
> 
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:31 2002 ...
> localhost kernel: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:32 2002 ...
> localhost kernel: Bank 4: b200000000040151
> 
> Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:32 2002 ...
> localhost kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
> 
> Word on the street is that this indicates hardware failure of some kind
> (cpu, bus, or memory).  My main question is, is that very surely the
> culprit, or is it also possible that all of the hardware is perfect and
> that a bug in the kernel code or some outside influence (remote exploit)
> is causing this crash ?

	Instruction fetch error from the level 1 cache...I've seen this before 
(check the archives). This indicates either a memory or a processor problem.

	Could you please run memtest86?

	Thanks.

Felipe


  reply	other threads:[~2002-12-26  3:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-12-26  1:53 CPU failures ... or something else ? Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  1:41 ` Felipe W Damasio [this message]
2002-12-26  2:02 ` Bubba
2002-12-26  3:04   ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26 22:37     ` Pavel Machek
2002-12-26  3:09   ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  3:36     ` J Sloan
2002-12-26  3:39       ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  3:20   ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  6:03 ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-27 23:30   ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-12-26  3:13 Ro0tSiEgE
2002-12-26  3:22 ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  6:08   ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-26  3:31 Billy Rose
2002-12-26  3:38 ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  3:50 Billy Rose
2002-12-26  3:54 ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  4:03 Billy Rose
2002-12-26  4:04 ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  2:05   ` Felipe W Damasio
2002-12-26  6:13   ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-26  6:35     ` Josh Brooks
2002-12-26  6:49       ` Joseph D. Wagner
2002-12-26  7:08       ` Felipe W Damasio
2002-12-26  4:21 Billy Rose
2002-12-26  4:48 ` Josh Brooks

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