Greetings. I have a RH 6.2 server installation running on a 233MHz P3 box (saved from
Windows NT!). The machine has been running smoothly after installation about three
weeks ago, and Friday morning around 0400 the machine crashed. The error message
included the following:
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 8bf9591c.
Oops 0000
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task
In swapper task - not syncing
There was a bunch of other debugging stuff also; all of this came up before the
process got to the interactive start menu. I tried restarting the machine with the
reset switch, no luck. I powered it down, and back up, several times, basically the
same result each time. I also tried to boot off my rescue floppy; the machine loaded
Linux off the floppy, started, and then the same thing happened. One of the crashes
happened after mtrr v1.35a had loaded.
I have not added ANY new software or services to the machine since I loaded Samba two
weeks ago. All seemed to be working fine.
I did a search on redhat.com, and there seemed to be a LOT of questions about this
type of problem, but all of the results showed 404, so maybe those haven't been
migrated or something. There was a lot of questions about this on various mail lists
and on DejaNews, but there was no definitive answer I saw. There was speculation that
maybe it's a hardware problem. The fact that it happens on both a hard drive and a
floppy drive boot leads me to believe I've a hardware problem, and so tomorrow AM I'm
going to swap the hard drive into another SCSI-drive machine and try starting it up
from there.
I'd appreciate any pointers at all. The school website and teacher email run off of
this machine, and so I'd like it up again soon.
Cheers, Bill
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