Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: CPU context corrupt? | Date | 4 Sep 2001 18:03:11 -0700 |
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Followup to: <999606788.1571.12.camel@hamlet> By author: Aquila <aquila@hypox.org> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Hi > > I have had this problem quite a while now: when playing tribes2 or when > a particular CPU intensive xscreensaver is running, X would often hang. > I used to be able to ssh from another box or use SysRq-K to kill X and > restart (but I never figured out what the problem was). > > Ever since upgrading to 2.4.9-ac3 (from 2.4.8-ac5 I believe), whenever > it hangs in X the computer would beep and give this message in syslog: > > Sep 4 21:43:41 hamlet kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check Exception: > 0000000000000004 > Sep 4 21:43:41 hamlet kernel: Bank 1: f600200000000152 at > 7600200000000152 > Sep 4 21:43:41 hamlet kernel: Bank 2: d40040000000017a at > 540040000000017a > Sep 4 21:43:41 hamlet kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt > > It hangs there, and SysRq-K is no longer able to kill X properly. sshd > stops working as well. What does this message mean? Do I have faulty > hardware? >
Yes.
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