General protection error, help?

kernel@instantlinux.com ("kernel@instantlinux.com")
Fri, 27 Mar 1998 11:13:57 -0500 (EST)


Mar 25 17:42:53 www kernel: Warning dev (03:00) tty->count(3) !=
I have a system, pentium II, 233
3.5 gig fujitsu udma drive as root
3.2 gig fujitsu udma drive as /mirror
2 64MB DIMMS

It's been nothing but troubles. During install of redhat 5.0 I kept
getting tons of errors.. which look alot like the ones below actually..
and redhat support's only help was "oh try a new boot disk".. then I
realized udma wasnt supported.. after some playing around I got it to
install fine by putting the hard drive (first one) into pio mode 2.. but
once i put it up on the net (it's for a client site) and it started
getting alot of traffic it just keeps dying.. basically the errors are
like the one below (one time yesterday when i watched it craash it just
started flooding these errrs to me).. I was thinking the problem was a
conflict between the first hard drive and second hard drive so i just
removed the second one.. no go..

before we get to the errors from the most recent crash.. here are some
errors from yesterday :

Mar 25 17:42:53 www kernel: Warning dev (03:00) tty->count(3) !=
#fd's(7) in tty_open

Mar 25 17:42:53 www kernel: Warning dev (03:00) tty->count(3) !=
#fd's(7) in release_dev

Mar 25 17:42:53 www kernel: Warning dev (03:00) tty->count(2) != #fds(7)
in do_tty_hangup
then it crashed.

Could it be a problem with not enough file descriptors.. Because the
customer does have 105,469 files in his home directory (he gives out free
home pages to people or something)

Well anyways, below are today's crash log erros :

btw thanks everyone for taking their tiem to help

Here are the errors messages from today: when it crashed right after I
removed the second hard drive.

Mar 26 09:59:13 www kernel: ICMP redirect from 209.3.106.1
Mar 26 09:59:29 www kernel: ICMP redirect from 209.3.106.1
Mar 26 10:00:21 www last message repeated 2 times
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address c80455b4
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000,
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: *pde = 00000000
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: Oops: 0000
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: EIP: 0010:[timer_bh+322/820]
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010016
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: eax: 001b08b4 ebx: 080455b4 ecx: 080455b4 edx: 00000000
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: esi: 001b07ac edi: 00000001 ebp: 001aef70 esp: 001aef5c
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=001ad038)
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: Stack: 00000001 ffffffff 00000001 00000001 00011c00 001d0e80 00117b33 001aef8c
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: 001af014 00000000 00009000 0010a5a3 00011bff fffffc18 001af7ec 001af014
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: 00000000 00009000 00000000 001a0018 001a0018 0000002b 00110018 fffffffe
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: Call Trace: [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/24] [get_cpuinfo+424/468] [sys_idle+92/112] [system_call+85/124] [init+0/612] [mmap_zero+0/56]
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: Code: 8b 1b 8b 41 08 89 c2 2b 55 fc 81 fa ff 00 00 00 77 08 0f b6
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001af080, next= 00109033, order=582
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001af070, next= 00109033, order=582
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 001af584, next= 00109033, order=582
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: idle task may not sleep
Mar 26 10:01:06 www last message repeated 4 times
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kernel: rexmit_timer: timer expired - reason unknown
Mar 26 10:01:06 www kerneld: error: exit: Identifier removed
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: general protection: 0000
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: EIP: 0010:[timer_bh+322/820]
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010016
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: eax: 001b0504 ebx: 612f6574 ecx: 612f6574 edx: 00000018
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: esi: 001b07ac edi: 00000001 ebp: 001aee4c esp: 001aee38
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0000 ss: 0018
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=001ad038)
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: Stack: 00000001 ffffffff 00000001 00000001 00011f00 001d0e80 00117b33 001aee68
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: 00000000 00000000 00000009 0010a5a3 00000000 001af7ec 06d52018 00000000
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: 00000000 00000009 001af7ec 00000018 00000018 00000000 00000000 fffffffe
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: Call Trace: [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/24] [exit_notify+62/472] [do_exit+456/508] [die_if_kernel+695/704] [<09000000>] [<08800000>]
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: [mmap_zero+0/56] [do_page_fault+718/736] [do_page_fault+0/736] [error_code+64/72] [timer_bh+322/820] [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/24] [get_cpuinfo+424/468]
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: [sys_idle+92/112] [system_call+85/124] [init+0/612] [mmap_zero+0/56]
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: Code: 8b 1b 8b 41 08 89 c2 2b 55 fc 81 fa ff 00 00 00 77 08 0f b6
Mar 26 10:01:13 www kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
At this point a reboot.

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