Possible kernel bug??

Kirk Bauer (kirk@kaybee.org)
Fri, 9 Jan 1998 09:23:46 -0500 (EST)


I am running Red Hat 4.2 with kernel 3.0.32 and we recently
had a spontaneous system reboot that was definitely not
because of power failure...

Here is the reboot in /var/log/messages:

Jan 7 07:02:07 ns squid[314]: NETDB state saved; 834 entries, 75 msec
Jan 7 07:06:28 ns kernel: invalid TSS: 0000
Jan 7 08:43:17 ns syslogd 1.3-3: restart.
Jan 7 08:43:17 ns kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.

The "NETBD" saved is normal, that happens once an hour.

The "invalid TSS: 0000" is what worries me, I don't know
what that is.

I know the system was down at 8:30 for sure, but I don't know
for how long before that.

It restarted on its own. If it crashed on the "invalid TSS" message
at 7:06, that means it took over an hour and a half to reboot,
which is strange...

Please reply to me directly by email. Thanks!

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