On Tue, 2002-04-23 at 04:57, Michael Fratoni wrote: > > > > Apr 23 00:02:56 ele3c kernel: VM: killing process netscape-naviga > > Apr 23 00:02:56 ele3c kernel: Unused swap offset entry in swap_dup > > 00400000 > > Apr 23 00:02:56 ele3c kernel: VM: killing process netscape-naviga > > Apr 23 00:02:56 ele3c kernel: Unused swap offset entry in swap_dup > > 00400000 > > Apr 23 00:02:56 ele3c kernel: VM: killing process netscape-naviga > > Apr 23 00:02:57 ele3c kernel: VM: Bad swap entry 00400000 > [snip] > > Any Ideas any one? Is this a hardware issue of some sort? > > Best guess? Yes. > I suspect a dying hard drive, or a bad memory module.
Both of those seem reasonable. You can do a basic check of the drive with: badblocks -v /dev/hda If that comes up clean, you should probably run memtest86. Downside to this is that you'll have to reboot and be offline during the test.
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