Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 17 Dec 1996 14:47:45 +0200 (EET) | From | Petri Kaukasoina <> | Subject | 2.0.27 crash |
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Hello all,
This 486 has been running linux maybe 1.5 year now without any problems. But today it hung while I was tarring lots of files and doing something with the mouse in X. The disk went silent, the mouse and the keyboard did not respond (not even the magic ScrollLock combinations). The box did not answer pings. Oh, I was running linux 2.0.27 and XFree86 v3.2. IDE-disk, VLB, 3c509, no soundcard, no ISDN, no modules.
After boot it worked for some minutes and then it stopped again. No mouse, no keyboard, no answer to pings, nothing in syslog. Both times I was doing something with the mouse just when it hung.
Then I tested the memory with memtest-86. Seemed ok. Booted again, seemed to work, went to have some lunch. When I came back, it had crashed again, but now with these messages in the syslog (the time corresponds to an uptime of 16 mins):
Dec 17 12:25:32 elektroni kernel: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page Dec 17 12:25:32 elektroni last message repeated 2 times Dec 17 12:25:32 elektroni kernel: release: xntpd kernel stack corruption. Aiee
Because of "nonexistent swap-page" I decided to swapoff -a mkswap -c /dev/hda1 swapon -a and after that it seems to be ok.
Has anyone seen something similar? I guess the swap partition was somehow corrupted.
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