Dear Debian Gurus:
I have been using Linux since 1995. All this time I never
experienced a serious system crash, until recently.
I am using Debian 2.0.14.
My system has four partitions:
device size mount
/dev/hda1 ~1Gb /
/dev/hda2 128Mb swap
/dev/hda3 ~3Gb /usr
/dev/hda4 ~1Gb /home
I left for vacations Aug.3 and left my system running (a big
mistake). A power outage occurred while I was away. When I
came back the screen that welcomed me, was a partially booted
system, which hung after a kernel panic message !!
I used a previous SUSE bootdisk (2.0.13), it checked the fs,
mounted the partitions, and there it was, running again. Thats
until I rebooted again with my Debian kernel, which worked
until I tried to start Xwindows-KDE. The system crashed a
couple of times, one time it actually rebooted by itself.
The latest message that I get, upon booting is as follows,
note that I can still use my SUSE bootdisk to get the system
started.
This is what I get when I try to boot using without a
bootdisk:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c8000000
current->tss.cr3 = 00080000' %cr3 = 00080000
*pde = 00000000
Ooops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<0012b40d>]
EFLAGS: 00010216
eax: 003bafff ebx: 07fff000 ecx: 00001000 edx: 000003f0
esi: 08000000 edi: 003b6f58 ebp: 003b6f5c esp: 003b6f18
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process init (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=003b6000)
Stack: 07fff000 00000001 000083e0 003b6f8c 00000000 0012b68a 07fff000
003b6f60
003b6f5c 003baf00 003b6f58 00086e9c 4000b3f0 07fff000 000000 3
00001000
00000000 40008cb4 ffffffdc 00122ba1 07fff000 00000001 4000b3f0
003b6f8c
Call Trace: [<0012b68a>] [<00122ba1>] [<00122d27>] [<0010a645>]
Code: 8a 06 46 84 c0 75 f4 84 c0 74 4c 8b 54 24 24 ff 82 80 00 00
That's the last line that I see. I have copied this looking at
the dump, so there might be slight typos.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated, with much
respect.
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Fethi Okyar
Research Assistant
Computational Solid Mechanics
MMAE Department, IIT
Chicago, IL 60616-3793
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
