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From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
To: "Cornelius Kölbel" <cornelius.koelbel@gmx.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Bug in Kernel 2.4.20-8]
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2003 14:17:39 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F034BF3.3010705@rackable.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F01F052.8070307@gmx.de>

Cornelius Kölbel wrote:

> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>> On Maw, 2003-07-01 at 08:35, Cornelius Kölbel wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> I am using Kernel 2.4.20. I admit, it is the kernel of RedHat 9.
>>> I hope this is not, because RedHat did so much changes to the Kernel
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Always hard to tell. It is worth filing Red Hat kernel bugs in
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla and picking up current errata
>> kernels if there are newer ones
>>
>>  
>>
>>> I was just typing a mail, when the caps lock light and the scroll 
>>> lock light went on.
>>> Nothing happend anymore. No mouse, no keyboard.
>>> I resetted the computer.
>>>   
>>
>>
>> This is a panic - the machine got itself into a state that could not
>> continue. The flashing lights are giving data in morse (useful for those
>> truely desperate debugging situations only 8))
>>
>>  
>>
> After having watched some other problems, I guess it is due to a bad 
> memory module. (Can this be?)
> I removed this module and since then, I had no proplems anymore.
>

  You might want to try a memory tester.  I recommend either memtst86, 
or ctcs's memtst.
http://www.memtest86.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/va-ctcs/

-- 
Once you have their hardware. Never give it back.
(The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@rackable.com>



      parent reply	other threads:[~2003-07-02 21:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-07-01  7:35 [Fwd: Bug in Kernel 2.4.20-8] Cornelius Kölbel
2003-07-01 18:54 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-01 20:34   ` Cornelius Kölbel
2003-07-02 21:09     ` Alan Cox
2003-07-02 21:17     ` Samuel Flory [this message]

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