Hi all, Well I'm not having too much luck with my computer lately. I'm sorry for sending so many questions to the list recently, but I don't know what to do. Some of you may have been following the "RedHat Crashes" thread on Tuesday. Suffice it to say my computer has been very unstable lately and it's been a pain in the ass to try and figure out what is going wrong. The best clues I got were that .1 it was some sort of problem in the RedHat kernel 2. it was a problem with the NVIDIA drivers 3. it was a memory problem. Yesterday afternoon I got so pissed off that I backed up my data and installer Mandrake 9. I also ran memtest for 8 passes and it came up with no errors. Also, after my X server went screwy and crashed my machine with Mandrake 9.0, I uninstalled the NVIDIA drivers and reverted to Xfrees nv driver. Since I installed Mandrake it has crashed on me one more time, and another time it printed kernel errors to the console and everything went screwy until after a reboot. I was not able to pull any useful logs from the crash, but there are a number of kernel errors in /var/log/messages (I will attach a sample at the end of my letter).
Since I have changed systems and drivers my only guess is that it is some sort of hardware problem or conflict. However I have no idea how to start troubleshooting it. I could really use some help on this one. Here are my system specs: AMD Athlon XP 1800+, 768MB RAM, 120GB HD, Asus VB170 video card (GeForce 4 MX440-SE chipset), Creative CDROM, LG CDRW, Soltek SL-75KAV/-X motherboard (VIA Apollo KT133A chipset), SoundBlaster 16 sound card, Hauppage WinTV GO TV card. Thanks again for everyones help. Here is a sample of the kernel errors I'm getting: Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f578fff8 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: printing eip: Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: c0132750 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: *pde = 00000000 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Oops: 0000 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: CPU: 0 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: EIP: 0010:[__kmem_cache_alloc+64/208] Not tainted Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0132750>] Not tainted Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: EFLAGS: 00210006 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: eax: c5fd5ec0 ebx: c5fd5ec0 ecx: dd8384e0 edx: 00000800 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: esi: c184b5d0 edi: 00200246 ebp: ddaabe7c esp: ddaabe70 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Process evolution (pid: 14718, stackpage=ddaab000) Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Stack: ef84f4e0 000001f0 c4bef660 ddaabe94 c01d3f0b c184b5d0 000001f0 000001f0 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: 00000000 ddaabebc c01d33b3 00000420 000001f0 ddaaa000 00200287 e8ab45e0 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: c4bef660 0000040c 00000000 ddaabed8 c01d34ba c4bef660 0000040c 00000000 Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Call Trace: [alloc_skb+171/448] [sock_alloc_send_pskb+195/432] [sock_alloc_send_skb+26/48] [unix_stream_sendmsg+271/720] [sock_sendmsg+90/144] Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Call Trace: [<c01d3f0b>] [<c01d33b3>] [<c01d34ba>] [<c02195ff>] [<c01d0eaa>] Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: [do_poll+206/224] [sock_write+141/160] [sys_write+132/256] [system_call+51/64] Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: [<c0148dce>] [<c01d10bd>] [<c013a0c4>] [<c0108fe3>] Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Feb 6 15:47:55 ulb kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af da 8b 51 0c 89 41 14 01 d3 40 74 0c 57 9d Feb 6 15:48:35 ulb login(pam_unix)[9740]: authentication failure; logname= uid=0 euid=0 tty=vc/1 ruser= rhost= user=jesse Feb 6 15:48:37 ulb login[9740]: FAILED LOGIN 1 FROM (null) FOR jesse, Authentication failure Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address f578fff8 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: printing eip: Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: c0132750 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: *pde = 00000000 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: Oops: 0000 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: CPU: 0 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: EIP: 0010:[__kmem_cache_alloc+64/208] Not tainted Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0132750>] Not tainted Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: EFLAGS: 00010006 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: eax: c5fd5ec0 ebx: c5fd5ec0 ecx: dd8384e0 edx: 00000800 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: esi: c184b5d0 edi: 00000246 ebp: d7e75e7c esp: d7e75e70 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: Process gnome-terminal (pid: 14301, stackpage=d7e75000) Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: Stack: d43717a0 000001f0 dcc6eb00 d7e75e94 c01d3f0b c184b5d0 000001f0 000001f0 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: 00000000 d7e75ebc c01d33b3 000004c0 000001f0 d7e74000 d7e75ee0 c236ed20 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: dcc6eb00 000004b0 00000000 d7e75ed8 c01d34ba dcc6eb00 000004b0 00000000 Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: Call Trace: [alloc_skb+171/448] [sock_alloc_send_pskb+195/432] [sock_alloc_send_skb+26/48] [unix_stream_sendmsg+271/720] [sock_sendmsg+90/144] Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: Call Trace: [<c01d3f0b>] [<c01d33b3>] [<c01d34ba>] [<c02195ff>] [<c01d0eaa>] Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: [do_poll+206/224] [sock_write+141/160] [sys_write+132/256] [system_call+51/64] Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: [<c0148dce>] [<c01d10bd>] [<c013a0c4>] [<c0108fe3>] Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: Feb 6 15:48:40 ulb kernel: Code: 8b 44 81 18 0f af da 8b 51 0c 89 41 14 01 d3 40 74 0c 57 9d Jesse
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