From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264481AbUBOLg4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:36:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264484AbUBOLg4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:36:56 -0500 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:15785 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264481AbUBOLgz (ORCPT ); Sun, 15 Feb 2004 06:36:55 -0500 Message-ID: <402F59B0.8080707@colorfullife.com> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 12:36:16 +0100 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20031030 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: zohn_ming wu CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] friday 13 bug? References: <20040214234405.96047.qmail@web41204.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20040214234405.96047.qmail@web41204.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org zohn_ming wu wrote: >swap_free: Bad swap file entry 00000004 > Do you use ECC memory, is ECC enabled in the BIOS [and does it work - some vendors lie about ECC support]? I would bet that it's a soft memory error: 00000000 means not used. One bit differs, and the kernel complains about the invalid value. I think the following oops is a side effect of the bad swap entry. Do you have timestaps in the system log? Is the swap error just before the BUG in buffer.c? -- Manfred