I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know.
Some background: The machine: Mother Board: Pentium WB CACHE, PCI, ExpertBoard 8551, AMI BIOS (7/15/95) Processor: Pentium (P54C) 100MHz 16MB RAM, HD:~1GB (hda1:600MB DOS, hda2:32MB SWAP, hda3:400MB Linux) The OS: Debian Linux 1.3.1 (1 Aug 97) Kernel 2.0.29. The problem: I install the base system of Debian 1.3.1 (1 Aug 97) from floppy without problems. Then I boot and the dselect program starts to install the rest of the system (by ftp in my case). During the instalation process some errors appear (crc errors when decompressing, procceses that get killed) and at the same time I get a dump like this: Unable to handle kernel pagin request at virtual address cf2b7d4e current -> tss.cr3=0073c000, %cr3=0073c000 *pde=00000000 Oops: 000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<00121f4b>] EFLAGS: 00010203 eax: ....... ebx: ........ ....... Process preinst (pid: 2292, process nr:25, stackpage=0090d000) Stack: fffffff7 000008f4 ................ Call Trace: [<00121fe4>] [<0010a821>] Code: 66 83 7e 0e 00 75 16 68 06 28 1f 00 e8 28 18 ff ff 31 c0 83 Afterwards, sometimes the system crashes in different ways: the system does not respond while keep dumping messages like the above, the screen is filled with black and white squares. In any case I have to press the RESET button to reboot the system. Other times the system keeps running for a while until another such dump and then may or may not crash again. The problem seems to be a virtual page that is not found where he expects it to be. ?? Solutions I've tried and their results: 1.- Reformat and surface check the swap and Linux partitions: install again -> The problem persists 2.- Configure the BIOS SETUP as simple as possible: no shadow RAM, no power management, no external cache -> The problem persists 3.- Enable the external cache -> the problem persists but I get messages like this, beside the old ones: rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness 4.- Disable swapping -> dpkg says: .dpkg: malloc failed (65552 bytes): Out of memory which was easily expected 5.- Disable swapping from hda2 and enable a swap file in /var/tmp of about 10MB -> The problem persists. I'm quite surprised becouse I installed Debian before without problems. If you have any idea about what the problem should be, any clue, any idea or need more information to trace the problem, please contact me. Thanks in advance. Jorge. -- Jorge JUAN-CHICO Centro Nacional de Microelectronica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Edificio C.I.C.A. Phone: 34-5-4239923 Av/ Reina Mercedes s/n Fax: 34-5-4231832 41012-SEVILLA, SPAIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
