Hussein, Feed the crash messages you quote below, to the program 'ksymoops'. You may have to install it, depending on your distribution. You can download it from kernel.org . It will convert those hex numbers into function names, so that you can see where in the kernel the problem is occurring. The hexadecimal numbers are meaningless outside your particular kernel on your machine.
Also, note this line: EIP: 0010 :[<c88d3bde>] tainted: P This means that your kernel has been tainted, probably by loading a binary-only device driver module. You're not running Linux alone, you're running (Linux + mystery add-on binary module). As a result there's no way to know whether this is a Linux kernel problem, and so the kernel guys will IGNORE this crash report at best (or flame you at worst). Your two choices are: 1. Take the issue to the supplier of the binary-only module (even though it may be a kernel bug and not their fault), and hope that they have decent Linux support. 2. Reproduce the problem with an untainted kernel, and then report the problem to the kernel gurus, who will now listen to you. Good luck, --matt On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Hussein wrote: > Hi, > I've tried to a: do a new installation (twice) and b: upgrade Mandrake > 8.1. > The system locks up every time I try using it - tried using without X as > well - no difference. > I can log on, do a few things, connect to the internet, used links to go > to some sites even - but it would lock up after a few minutes. > Following is the message I get: > > > ************************************************ > cpu: 0 > EIP: 0010 :[<c88d3bde>] tainted: P > EFLAGS: 00010246 > eax: 00000000 ebx:c5544c10 ecxi:00000000 edx: 00000000 > es1: 00000047 edi:ffffffff ebp: 00000000 esp:c02798cc8 > ds:0018 es:0018 ss:0018 > > Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0279000) > stack: 0000003f 000001ff 00002b12 c88c54f6 000001aa c43238cc > 00000000 c6116f68 c5544c10 c57d5cb4 000017c8 c88d309e 00000009 > 00000006 c7f5a010 c5544c10 c57d52a8 c57dcb4 c7f5a010 00000008 c88d4066 > 00000024 0000023 c4323853 > > Call trace [<c88d0e0c>] (c88df470f) (c88d5ac0) (c88b6955) (c88b6331) > (c01c09fc) > (c017a146) (c88b6288) (c017a546) (c88b60ff) (c610836a) (c88bb13d) > (c017114b) (c88ba391) (c016a12d) (c011b678) (c011e599) (c011b5ab) > (c011b4c0) (c011b293) (c01053d4) (c6111205) (c01110f0) > (c0105442) (c0105000) > > code: 8a 16 31 c9 8a 4e 01 d3 6c 24 18 29 cf f7 c2 10 00 00 00 0f > (0) kernel panic: Aiee killing interrupt handle > Interrupt handler -not syncing. > > *********************************************************** > > > Mandrake 8.1 has been/is running fine. > > Any ideas what could be causing this problem? > > system is AMD 500 cpu, 128mb RAM, SIS video card. > > Regards, Mehmet > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
