Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Feb 2006 00:13:45 +0100 | From | thomas <> | Subject | Re: Incomprehensible Boot freeze & Crash - Kernel 2.6.12 |
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On 2/8/06, linux-os (Dick Johnson) <linux-os@analogic.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, thomas wrote: > > > Hello, > > I'm running Debian GNU/Linux Etch on an Acer Aspire 1682 laptop with > > kernel 2.6.12-1-686. So far the system was rock solid but I'm now > > experiencing a boot freeze: > > > > ... Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/ICE-Unix... done > > INIT: Entering runlevel: 2 > > Starting system log daemon: syslogd > > > > Then, nothing. However I can boot in "recover mode" (that is, single > > user & root login). There does not seem to be any hardware failure, > > the partitions are properly mounted, and there is engough free space > > on any of them. When I shut down the box, hundreds of lines of errors > > messages are outputted. I cannot read them all but here are the last > > ones: > > > > EIP is at do_page_fault+0xd6/0x6bf > > eax: dfa40000 ebx:00000000 ecx:0000007b edx:ffffff7b esi:00030001 > > edi:0000000d ebp:0000000b esp: dfa417c8 > > ds: 007b es:007b ss:0008 (snip) > ^^^^^^^^^^^____ These are not correct segments! > > Something is corrupting the GDT or setting incorrect segments directly. > Perhaps a driver? Or maybe your CPU is way too hot and is corrupting > segments itself?
You may be right (but I did not install any new piece of hardware recently). Maybe the following will help to understand the problem:
Booting for the tenth time worked surprisingly. As I shutdown the system, this line was outputted without end:
inode hda2: 96697 at df6aa440: mode 120777, nlink 1, next 0
hda2 is my / partition. What does that mean? When I re-booted, then re-shut down my computer, this worked flawlessly. Now everything seems to work; however /var/log/boot contains a few errors:
Wed Feb 8 23:58:23 2006: Starting internet superserver: inetdstart-stop-daemon: open pidfile /var/run/inetd.pid: Input/output error (Input/output error) Wed Feb 8 23:58:24 2006: Starting periodic command scheduler: cronstart-stop-daemon: open pidfile /var/run/crond.pid: Input/output error (Input/output error)
I don't want ask you to spend time for an approximatively-self-solved-issue, but if you have an idee what happened to my comp, I would be glad to hear it.
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