"More information
on making sense of the dump is in Documentation/oops-tracing.txt"
and
"You can use the "ksymoops" program to make sense of the dump."
seems like I've got some researching to do today :-)
thank you, richard, for pointing the direction,
petre
On Saturday 05 October 2002 16:45, pa3gcu wrote:
> On Saturday 05 October 2002 13:28, Petre Bandac wrote:
> > petre@k:~$ uname -a
> > Linux k 2.4.18-HTB #4 Wed Sep 25 02:47:50 EEST 2002 i686 unknown
> >
> > it is a Slackware 8.1 installed a few weeks ago
> >
> > I have 256 MB RAM and 200 MB swap space
> >
> > I stay away for the experimental kernels, as what I want from my system
> > is stability.
> >
> > the uptime of the machine was at that time 4 days, 21:14:36. It is my
> > home box, I run x-window on it (KDE), but at that time x-window wasn't
> > running, so the only processes runing were those required by the system,
> > plus apache plus http (below I'll list them). The only reason which comes
> > to my mind is that at the time the crash occured I was doing a ftp upload
> > on the machine @ ~200 KB (yes, kilo Bytes). If it makes any difference,
> > I'm connected through a LanCity cable modem.
>
> Then may i suggest trying the data transfer again, with of course the same
> things running as you have shown with ps below.
>
> > I shall look at the file you mentioned, richard, thank you, though I
> > would like to have some opinions on what caused this error (one of the
> > few "fatal" errors I have seen on linux machines yet).
>
> I suggest you read the whole piece about solving problems as there are
> several things you can do first before you go reading about ksymoops.
>
> > petre
> >
> >
> > PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
> > 1 ? S 0:03 init
> > 2 ? SW 0:00 [keventd]
> > 3 ? SW 0:00 [kapmd]
> > 4 ? SWN 0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
> > 5 ? SW 0:00 [kswapd]
> > 6 ? SW 0:00 [bdflush]
> > 7 ? SW 0:00 [kupdated]
> > 8 ? SW 0:00 [kreiserfsd]
> > 52 ? SW 0:00 [eth0]
> > 55 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
> > 58 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd -c 3 -x
> > 99 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
> > 101 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/sshd
> > 108 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
> > 110 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/atd -b 15 -l 1
> > 114 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/apmd
> > 116 ? S 0:00 gpm -m /dev/mouse -t ps2
> > 132 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> > 134 tty1 S 0:00 -bash
> > 135 tty2 S 0:00 -bash
> > 136 tty3 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty3 linux
> > 137 tty4 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4 linux
> > 138 tty5 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5 linux
> > 139 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/sbin/uptimed
> > 140 tty6 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty6 linux
> > 141 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> > 142 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
> > 143 ? S 0:00 /usr/local/apache/bin/httpd
>
> {big snip}
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