Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Dec 2002 01:41:57 +0000 | From | Felipe W Damasio <> | Subject | Re: CPU failures ... or something else ? |
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Josh Brooks wrote: > Hello, > > I have a dual p3 866 running 2.4 kernel that is crashing once every few > days leaving this on the console: > > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:31 2002 ... > localhost kernel: CPU 1: Machine Check Exception: 0000000000000004 > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:32 2002 ... > localhost kernel: Bank 4: b200000000040151 > > Message from syslogd@localhost at Tue Dec 24 11:30:32 2002 ... > localhost kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt > > Word on the street is that this indicates hardware failure of some kind > (cpu, bus, or memory). My main question is, is that very surely the > culprit, or is it also possible that all of the hardware is perfect and > that a bug in the kernel code or some outside influence (remote exploit) > is causing this crash ?
Instruction fetch error from the level 1 cache...I've seen this before (check the archives). This indicates either a memory or a processor problem.
Could you please run memtest86?
Thanks.
Felipe
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