Hi All, recently moved to debian woody and have to admit, really was impressed with the installation etc.
Being keen on playing around with iptables and such, tried installing kernel-2.4.5 image using dselect, didn't work, it would come up with a message asking me to append "root=" in the boot options. tried doing that using rdev and also root=/dev/hda1 in lilo - didn't work so i gave up. downloaded the sources, compiled (after altering the makefile to export the root= option), lilo, everything worked. Most of the stuff works, but I have the following problem. After running for a while the kernel crashes repeatedly. The machine is usually not being used for anything except masquerading and it is often not even being used for masquerading when it crashes. heres a log entry at a crash point. Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: printing eip: Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c0125e24 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>] Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000002 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx: 00000003 edx: 82d66560 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: esi: c10cd2ec edi: 00000002 ebp: 0000001d esp: c5ff7fb8 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 3, stackpage=c5ff7000) Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Stack: c10cd308 c10cd2ec c01276fb c10cd2ec c5ff6000 c020efd1 c5ff6239 0008e000 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: c01279dc 00000006 00000000 00010f00 c11e5fb8 00000000 c0105644 00000000 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: 00000078 c026bfc4 Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c01276fb>] [<c01279dc>] [<c0105644>] Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Jul 11 02:34:16 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d 4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89 the above crash blames it on kswapd, but here another one Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: printing eip: Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: c0125e24 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Oops: 0000 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: CPU: 0 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0125e24>] Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: eax: 00000003 ebx: c10cd2ec ecx: 00000003 edx: 82d66560 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: esi: 00000088 edi: c4df5c44 ebp: c11c3be8 esp: c2249ed8 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Process md5sum (pid: 14387, stackpage=c2249000) Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Stack: 0000008b 00000088 c0125f3a c10cd2ec c012107c c10cd2ec c101f150 c4df5c44 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b c012130a c1e3c4e0 00000092 c4df5ba0 c1018a40 00000092 c4df5c44 Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: 0000009b 0000001f 00000092 00000009 00000009 00000092 000000ac c012167d Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Call Trace: [<c0125f3a>] [<c012107c>] [<c012130a>] [<c012167d>] [<c01218eb>] [<c0121820>] [<c012d6a6>] Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: [<c0106ce3>] Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Jul 11 08:31:35 ganesh kernel: Code: 80 7a 0d 01 0f 84 ff 00 00 00 8d 4b 1c 8b 43 1c 8b 51 04 89 another process that i have seen crashed is fcheck. The machine is left on overnight and when i get up in the morning, i am greeted with something like referenced invalid pointer in virtual memory with an address of . If anyone has any tips on how to track this down, to whether it is actually linux's fault somewhere or a hardware issue or something, it would be greatly appreciated. The box was running redhat with kernel-2.4.4 before without the kernel crashing. again, any help greatly appreciated. Shri __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
