Re: Virtual memory problem?
Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > > I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but > > now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem > > of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a > > problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. > > You might just have kernel corrupted. > > Make sure your diskette has no bad blocks and re- rawrite the rescue disk. > > That's usually the main problem with floppy install. > > Alex Y. I remade the floppies twice and reinstalling, but the problem still arise. Thanks anyway. Jorge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Virtual memory problem?
On Wed, Aug 20, 1997 at 01:21:29AM +0800, Dima wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > >I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but > >now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem > >of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a > >problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. > > Try disabling PCI burst, increasing wait states, RAM timings, or whatever > your BIOS allows you to do to slow down your box. Also, try making a > custom bootdisk with kernel 2.0.27. Yep, I had a 2.0.27 machine up for 215 days with an smc-ultra (8216 like the original message). Oddly enough after being rebooted after 215 days, it mysteriously restarted 20 days later. :-( Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [* ] 51% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Virtual memory problem?
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but >now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem >of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a >problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. It's both kernel and hardware. AFAIK the problem exists in all 2.0.x kernels, but it wasn't noticed until 2.0.30 (hint: don't upgrade to 2.0.30 ;) FWIW I can configure my box to produce "Unable to handle paging request" stack traces on 2.0.29, too. Try disabling PCI burst, increasing wait states, RAM timings, or whatever your BIOS allows you to do to slow down your box. Also, try making a custom bootdisk with kernel 2.0.27. Hope this helps -- Dimitri emaziuk at curtin dot edu dot au, if you're replying to --- a Usenet posting Avoid reality at all costs. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Virtual memory problem?
> I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but
> now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem
> of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a
> problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know.
You might just have kernel corrupted.
Make sure your diskette has no bad blocks and re- rawrite the rescue disk.
That's usually the main problem with floppy install.
Alex Y.
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Virtual memory problem?
I've successfully installed Debian Linux 1.3.1 before a few times, but now I've got a problem with a computer. So, I think it's not a problem of the distribution, nor the kernel. Maybe a problem of configuration, maybe a hardware problem, ... I don't know. Some background: The machine: Mother Board: Pentium WB CACHE, PCI, ExpertBoard 8551, AMI BIOS (7/15/95) Processor: Pentium (P54C) 100MHz 16MB RAM, HD:~1GB (hda1:600MB DOS, hda2:32MB SWAP, hda3:400MB Linux) The OS: Debian Linux 1.3.1 (1 Aug 97) Kernel 2.0.29. The problem: I install the base system of Debian 1.3.1 (1 Aug 97) from floppy without problems. Then I boot and the dselect program starts to install the rest of the system (by ftp in my case). During the instalation process some errors appear (crc errors when decompressing, procceses that get killed) and at the same time I get a dump like this: Unable to handle kernel pagin request at virtual address cf2b7d4e current -> tss.cr3=0073c000, %cr3=0073c000 *pde= Oops: 000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<00121f4b>] EFLAGS: 00010203 eax: ...ebx: ... Process preinst (pid: 2292, process nr:25, stackpage=0090d000) Stack: fff7 08f4 Call Trace: [<00121fe4>] [<0010a821>] Code: 66 83 7e 0e 00 75 16 68 06 28 1f 00 e8 28 18 ff ff 31 c0 83 Afterwards, sometimes the system crashes in different ways: the system does not respond while keep dumping messages like the above, the screen is filled with black and white squares. In any case I have to press the RESET button to reboot the system. Other times the system keeps running for a while until another such dump and then may or may not crash again. The problem seems to be a virtual page that is not found where he expects it to be. ?? Solutions I've tried and their results: 1.- Reformat and surface check the swap and Linux partitions: install again -> The problem persists 2.- Configure the BIOS SETUP as simple as possible: no shadow RAM, no power management, no external cache -> The problem persists 3.- Enable the external cache -> the problem persists but I get messages like this, beside the old ones: rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness rw_swap_page: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness swap_free: weirdness 4.- Disable swapping -> dpkg says: .dpkg: malloc failed (65552 bytes): Out of memory which was easily expected 5.- Disable swapping from hda2 and enable a swap file in /var/tmp of about 10MB -> The problem persists. I'm quite surprised becouse I installed Debian before without problems. If you have any idea about what the problem should be, any clue, any idea or need more information to trace the problem, please contact me. Thanks in advance. Jorge. -- Jorge JUAN-CHICO Centro Nacional de Microelectronica <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Edificio C.I.C.A. Phone: 34-5-4239923 Av/ Reina Mercedes s/n Fax: 34-5-4231832 41012-SEVILLA, SPAIN -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
