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From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: cperkins@OCF.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: x86_64 invalid opcode
Date: Thu, 04 May 2006 17:43:41 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <445A91AD.3010908@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68Sjn-7MD-19@gated-at.bofh.it>

chris perkins wrote:
> hi - i'm running the 2.6.16.13 x86_64 kernel on an athlon 64 and 
> periodically get invalid opcode and general protection faults.  the 
> system continues to run for about 10 minutes following this and then 
> crashes. i've had similar problems with previous 2.6 kernels but 
> unfortunately don't have a capture of the output. below is the syslog 
> output and my .config... has anyone else seen anything similar?
> thanks,
>   chris perkins

This could be caused by problems with your RAM, have you tried running 
memtest86?

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     [not found] <68Sjn-7MD-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-05-04 23:43 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-05-04 20:00 x86_64 invalid opcode chris perkins

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