I am running a debian machine (PC PII 350 MHZ, 128 MB RAM) as an Internet server. Today the server crashed the second times after running one week without any problems. The crash was caused by a kernel panic. Nothing has been written to a log file. Below is an excerpt which I found on the console:
unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e7fde95c current -> tss.cr3=00101000, %cr3=00101000 *pde=00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 The panic happened when a cronjob was running (glimpse ...) which does a lot of IO and consumes a good amount of memory. Maybe connected with this problem is a kernel message which occasional appears at this times but doesn't cause a crash: Jun 5 05:47:25 memo kernel: attempt to access beyond end of device Jun 5 05:47:25 memo kernel: 08:0c: rw=0, want=67136178, limit=610438 Jun 5 05:47:26 memo kernel: EXT2-fs error (device 08:0c): ext2_free_blocks: Freeing blocks not in datazone - block = 67136177, count = 1 I am running a kernel 2.2.3 with a hamm system. Could there be any incompatibility between this kernel version and parts of the hamm distribution? Should I deinstall glimpse and compile a binary myself on the system? I switched to debian because I thought it would be at least as stable as Suse or RH, but unfortunately my experiences until now are bad. I had to reboot the system too many times. Any hints appreciated. --Werner
