Just a quick note, I'm starting to wonder about my hardware. For the last
few months (since I reloaded the system back to running slink in fact), I
have been receiving errors similar to the following message :-
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Oops: 0000
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: EIP: 0010:[con_write+14/40]
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: eax: c018e670 ebx: c19cc000 ecx:
c1515f3b
edx: 0806596d
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: esi: c19cc000 edi: 0000004f ebp:
c1515eec
esp: c1515ec0
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Process iptraf (pid: 2855, process nr:
61, stackpage=c1515000)
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Stack: 0000004f c19cc000 c0193e33
c19cc000 00000000 c1515eec 0000004f 0000004f
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: 080658f8 c19cc000 c1514000
3b345b1b 1b483535 313b305b 6d313b30 36335b1b
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: 345b1b6d 1b386d34 4733365b
5b1b3239 313b3432 5b1b4834 30313b30 335b1b6d
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Call Trace: [opost_block+343/356]
[write_chan+339/564] [tty_write+442/524] [write_chan+0/564]
[sys_write+211/264] [system_call+52/56]
Dec 24 00:09:31 midnight kernel: Code: ff 74 24 18 53 e8 28 f4 ff ff 89 c6
53 e8 f0 00 00 00 89 f0
Usually, after this happens I loose total control of the system, and the
only way to get the system back under control is to do a total reboot of
the system.
The other fun ones are things that start as :-
unable to handle kernel paging request
Then the system just dies. I'm wondering if my hardware is faulty?
Does anyone have any idea on what might be at fault here?
The System has :-
- AMD K6/2-233
- Jetway JFE-530TX Motherboard
- Adaptec 1542CF SCSI Card
- 2xQuantum Empire 1080S (one's with the older firmware, it's baaad!)
- 1xSeagate HDD (Not sure of model, it's a full height 5.25" 1.4Gig SCSI)
- 32Megabytes of RAM
- Kingston Network Card (I think it's the KFE-120TX, but can't remember
off the top of my head, it's a 10/100 PCI card...)
I have replaced the RAM once already, so I know that is not faulty (the
old RAM is running perfectly in my other system).
I have also replaced the CPU, that didn't help much.
I am running potato now (I upgraded it all the way, just in case I had old
packages that hated my system or something <grin>).
The only things I'm left with thinking is faulty is the Motherboard, or
SCSI card. I have a spare CPU around the place, but I don't have spare
motherboard or SCSI card here at the moment (grin). I plan on making
another machine, but that's not going to be for a little while yet.
Regards,
Peter Ludwig
