On Sat, 5 Jan 2002, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Eric wrote:
> >
> > I seem to be having a reoccurring problem with my Red Hat 7.2 system
> > running kernel 2.4.17. Four times now, I have seen the kernel generate an
> > oops. After the oops, I find that one of file systems is no longer sane.
> > The effect that I see is a Segmentation Fault when things like ls or du
> > some directory (the directory is never the same). Also, when the system
> > is going down for a reboot, it is unable to umount the file system. The
> > umount command returns a "bad lseek" error.
>
> Everything here points at failing hardware. Probably memory errors.
> People say that memtest86 is good at detecting these things. Another
> way to verify this is to move the same setup onto a different computer...
I ran memtest86 on the system and let it complete 4 passes before I
stopped it. It found no errors. Unfortunately, I do not have another
system available to test this on. Are there any other diagnostics I can
run to determine if this is truly a hardware problem?
Thanks,
Eric
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