Iman Mayes on Tue, 25 Feb 2003 23:01:08 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] ARGH!!!!!!!!!


What do you mean by "Prior to this"? Were you running a different OS or
setup?

Iman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Roberts" <fboston@hotmail.com>
To: <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 7:44 PM
Subject: [PLUG] ARGH!!!!!!!!!


> Ok folks, Im going to lay it out for you. My linux box is teetering on the
> edge of getting thrown out the damn window with this freaking problem.
> Lately it's been acting really strange. Randomly just not letting me log
on
> (the screen goes black, screen saver like, and then never comes back, nor
> can i log on remotely through ssh/telnet). Or, it will just crap out in
the
> middle of a session. Or the kicker is this error message, which seems to
> come at no particular time or for any conceivable reason. Brace
> yourselves...
>
> unable to handle kernel null pointer dereference at virtual address
> 000000000
> current -> tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr2 = 00101000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0002
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c01087e1>]
> EFLAGS: 00010246
> eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c0234000 edx: 00000000
> esi: c0234000 edi: 0000489b ebp: 000058e3 esp: c0235fa4
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c0235000
> Stack c0106000 c0108804 00000000 c0109f58 00000000 00000000 00000001
> 0009b800
>       c0106000 000058e3 00000070 00000018 00000018 00000070 c010607b
> 00000010
>       00000296 c0236d4f 00000000 c0106000 0fae21d8 c0216cc0 c0100175
> Call trace: [<c0106000>] [<c01088004>] [<c0109f58>] [<c0106000>]
> [<c010607h>]
> [<c0106000>] [<c0100175>]
> Code: 8b 5e 14 e8 7f 8a 00 00 e8 4a 22 01 00 eb b4 b8 00 e0 ff ff
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In swapper task - not syncing
>
>
> ------------------------------------------
>
> I have not a clue as to what the hell any of this means. I am running a
> stock redhat 7.0 system, same kernel 2.2.16-22 on my Athlon 850, 256MB
ram,
> 2 3c905C 3com ethernet cards... I have reinstalled from discs, completely
> formatting partitions, and the same result. I have experimented running
> every service imaginable or barebones, and one of the above still takes
> place. It even has happened after a very painful upgrade to 8.0. So now I
am
> back to 7.0 again. Prior to this, the machine worked perfectly with the
> exact same hardware setup, so I am at a loss.
>
> If any of you out there either 1. know what the F this means and would
like
> to tell me, or 2. just like computers so much that seeing mine fly out the
> second story window would be more painful them comical, your assistance
> would be much appreciated. My frustration is reaching "Falling Down"
> level...............
>
> Dan Roberts
> Villanova School of Law
> fboston@hotmail.com
>
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