On Thu, 23 Sep 1999, you wrote:
> What does this all mean? And how do I fix it?
> ---------------------------
> Yes I did a proper shutdown!
>
> System:
>
> AMD 350 / 256meg pc-100 ram / WD 13 gig hd
> only half of drive partitioned .. using disk drude .. only os on hd ..
> know the os is below the 1024 range as whole hd only has 1582 sec.
> hda1 3gig / -- Mandrake 6.1
> hda5 3 gig unmounted and empty -- future bsd maybe
> hda6 2 gig /hold -- used for my downloads
> hda7 127 meg swap
> rest unpartitioned
> -------------------------
> NOTE: I had same error when I installed RH 6.0 on drive from CD ..
> this install was via ftp ....
> -------------------------
Then possably you have flaky hardware, ie, memory, i say that because
you say it happens on different installations, (distros).
> System works ok other than the error message, and on reboot continues to
> work fine. It's a new install and I just don't want to get 2 weeks into
> costomizing it only to find I should have fixed something and have to
> start over.
>
> When I shut down my Mandrake 6.1 I get the following message:
> (edited as I only type with 2 fingers and this already took 20 min to
> type what I did)
Well The text "might" be in one of the system logs, check that out
next time it wil save you all that typing, i suggest you read,
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/opps-tracing.txt it will tell you how
you can debug the text and should show just what program or system
call caused the problem.
> ....................................
> ggeneral protection fault: f000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0050:[<0000873b>]
> EFLAGS: 00010047
> eax: 00005301
> snip....
> bla bla bla....
>
> Code: <Unable to handle kernal paging request at virtual address
> 0000873b
> current->tss.cr3 = 0e700000, %cr3 = 0e700000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<8010acde>]
> EFAGS: 00010083
> eax: 0000873b ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000005 edx: 8edcddb8
> esi: 0000002b edi: 8edc000 ebp: 90899999 esp: 8edcdd40
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process hault (pid: 626, process nr: 14, stackpage=8edcd000)
> Stack: 0000f000 8edcddb8 00005307 67890000 0000f000 8edcddb8 00005307
> 91000000
> 00000086 00000001 80231da2 80231da2 8010b7ed 8edcddb8 00005307
> 8010b7e4
> 801d9898 801d996d 0000f000 00000003 8edcc000 7fff831a 00000019
> 800bd140
> Call Trace: [<91000000>] [<8010b7ed>] [<8010b7e4>]
> snip........
> bla bla bla ....
>
> Code: 8a 04 03 25 ff 00 00 00 43 50 68 90 98 1d 80 e8 4e aa 00 00
> /etc/rc/rc0.d/S00halt: line 1: 626 Segmentation fault halt -i -d
Now this one look like the program halt has cause the problem, use
reboot instead of halt and see what happens.
Looking at the halt man page the options given above mean dont tell
wtmp about closing down and shutdown interfaces as one of the last
processes, now that sounds like trouble to me if you use the wrong
kernel version without the new power saving system calls.
> -p
>
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Peacemkr1
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Regards Richard
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