Hi, My immediate question is: did you have enough space on / partition ? If / fills up, say for having /tmp or /var on it during the update process the system is going to crash. My other question, likely reason: you needed more memory for the operation than what you had in ram + swap, this could also lead to a crash-like situration, you could recover by adding a loopback swap, but that did not happen.
Please check for both options ... Cheers Szemir On October 28, 2005 09:12, Martin Glazer wrote: > Hey, > > Running Gentoo on my laptop and while doing an update last night (this > morning) it crashed completely and had to recycle power to have access > again. > > This from the logs... > > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: _inode_dirty+0x1a6/0x1b0 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0111e30>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x5d5 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c01033af>] error_code+0x4f/0x54 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0182538>] elf_core_dump+0x6b8/0xc72 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0164f09>] may_open+0x59/0x200 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0161a57>] do_coredump+0x1c7/0x203 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0120d10>] free_uid+0x20/0x80 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0121655>] __dequeue_signal+0x105/0x1e0 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0121809>] dequeue_signal+0xd9/0xf0 > Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: [<c0123519>] > get_signal_to_deliver+0x229/0x310 Oct 28 02:00:34 rover kernel: > [<c0102f9b>] do_signal+0x9b/0x130 > > and so it continues. > > It looks like a kernel crash, but any way of telling what caused it? Could > it be memory, hard drive? I'm running reiserfs with kernel 2.6.12. > > Thanks > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
