Two days in a raw (I probably upgraded to testing before, as I often do), my system did not properly shut down after a call to 'halt'. It got stuck somewhere before unmounting the local filesystems, while desactivating the swap. There are interesting errors in /var/log/messages:
[NOTE: startup] Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 94M Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xe0000000 Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: Intel 440BX chipset Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture: 64M @ 0xe0000000 Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: aperture mapped from 0xe0000000 to 0xc9a4e000 Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: mode 2x Apr 27 09:26:01 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 16 pages ... Apr 27 17:05:43 blanche -- MARK -- Apr 27 17:21:25 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 257 pages Apr 27 17:21:25 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: allocated 128 pages Apr 27 17:43:19 blanche kernel: Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason 2c. Apr 27 17:43:19 blanche kernel: Dazed and confused, but trying to continue Apr 27 17:43:19 blanche kernel: Do you have a strange power saving mode enabled? Apr 27 17:48:54 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 128 pages Apr 27 17:48:54 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 257 pages Apr 27 18:05:43 blanche -- MARK -- ... [NOTE: shutdown] Apr 28 01:12:06 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: freed 16 pages Apr 28 01:12:06 blanche kernel: NVRM: AGPGART: backend released Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: EIP: 0010:[__free_pages_ok+66/484] Tainted: P Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: EFLAGS: 00013202 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: eax: 00000009 ebx: c10ea4c0 ecx: c10ea4c0 edx: 00000000 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: esi: c10ea4c0 edi: 00000000 ebp: 44c69000 esp: c1e93e50 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: Process XFree86 (pid: 398, stackpage=c1e93000) Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: Stack: c10ea4c0 c10ea4c0 000a0200 44c69000 000a0200 c012aa95 c0242000 c0242000 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: c0128f51 c012a2e8 000a0200 c012a656 000a0200 c0242000 c10ea4c0 c012ac69 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: c10ea4c0 00184000 00000000 c6c4f1a4 c0120fd8 000a0200 c7c6ec80 c3bf90a0 Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: Call Trace: [swap_free+37/44] [lru_cache_del+5/20] [page_cache_release+44/48] [delete_from_swap_cache+50/56] [fre e_swap_and_cache+105/136] Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: [zap_page_range+400/556] [exit_mmap+181/276] [mmput+57/88] [do_exit+135/460] [do_signal+544/648] [soundcore:__ insmod_soundcore_O/lib/modules/2.4.16-686/kernel/drivers/+-168465/96] Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: [soundcore:__insmod_soundcore_O/lib/modules/2.4.16-686/kernel/drivers/+-472268/96] [fput+175/208] [filp_close+ 92/100] [error_code+52/60] [signal_return+20/24] Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: Apr 28 01:12:08 blanche kernel: Code: 0f 0b 8b 43 18 a8 40 74 02 0f 0b 8b 43 18 a8 80 74 02 0f 0b Any idea of what is going wrong? Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
