On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 06:28:47PM +0200, Gilles wrote: > I also have 1 GB RAM. In order to make the system use the swap, I had > to launch 3 concurrent kernel compilations (each allowed to "-j2"). > > Sometimes it works through the end. Most of the time not, and I get > these errors (one for each compilation failure): > > Sep 30 17:13:08 dusk kernel: [ 2812.564576] mv[3956] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc08c0 error:0 > Sep 30 17:34:27 dusk kernel: [ 4090.665852] rm[16259] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffffbc1a70 error:0 > Sep 30 17:39:35 dusk kernel: [ 4399.178030] rm[884] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7fffffdc1a00 error:0 > Sep 30 17:55:11 dusk kernel: [ 5335.154363] mv[7640] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc1560 error:0 > Sep 30 18:12:47 dusk kernel: [ 6391.078104] gcc[19297] general protection > rip:2aaaaaaac80e rsp:7ffffffc10b0 error:0 > > Twice, the system froze (while compiling). In those cases, nothing > appears in the log. > > What do those "general protection", "rip", "rsp",... mean?
My first guess would be instruction pointer and stack pointer. Getting a GPF exception from the CPU is not good at all, although in the past my experience led my to believe it is usually caused by bugs in software. > Obviously, I'm interested in finding out what's wrong with the system. > Do you have suggestions as to what I should do to have the kernel provide > a little more information in "kern.log"? Not sure what to suggest there. May have to hit lkml for help on this. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
