General protection on 2.0.33!!!!

Niko! (niko@unina.it)
Thu, 2 Apr 1998 10:08:53 +0200


We have a Dual Pentium 200Mhz with 2.0.33 SMP kernel, 64 Mb of Ram, ethernet
Eterexpress pro100,
2 hd seagate 9Gb scsi. Our machines provides internet access with PPP on 20
ISDN lines (Digiboard Xem).

i noted after about 1 month the following console message!

This is the output of dmesg (the bottom part - gerenal protection - are not
produced at boot time)

****************************************************************************
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3.2.1
scsi : 1 host.
scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST410800W Rev: 0006
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 8, lun 0
Vendor: SEAGATE Model: ST410800W Rev: 0006
Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sdb at scsi0, channel 0, id 9, lun 0
scsi : detected 2 SCSI disks total.
SCSI device sda: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17755614 [8669 MB] [8.7
GB]
SCSI device sdb: hdwr sector= 512 bytes. Sectors= 17755614 [8669 MB] [8.7
GB]
tunnel: version v0.2b2
PPP: version 2.2.0 (dynamic channel allocation)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP Dynamic channel allocation code copyright 1995 Caldera, Inc.
PPP line discipline registered.
SLIP: version 0.8.4-NET3.019-NEWTTY (dynamic channels, max=256).
CSLIP: code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California.
SLIP linefill/keepalive option.
Found Intel i82557 PCI Speedo at I/O 0x6100, IRQ 11.
PCI latency timer (CFLT) is 0x20.
eepro100.c:v0.38 2/17/98 Donald Becker linux-eepro100@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 at 0x6100, 00:A0:C9:42:96:01, IRQ 11.
Board assembly 667280-003, Physical connectors present: RJ45
Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x49caa8d6).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
eepro100.c:v0.38 2/17/98 Donald Becker linux-eepro100@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
Partition check:
sda: sda1 sda2
sdb: sdb1
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Adding Swap: 130748k swap-space (priority -1)
Digi PC/Xx Driver V1.3.0: PC/Xem I/O = 0x104 Mem = 0xd0000 Ports = 32
eth0: speedo_open() irq 11.
eth0: Done speedo_open(), status 00000090.
registered device ppp0
registered device ppp1
registered device ppp2
registered device ppp3
registered device ppp4
registered device ppp5
registered device ppp6
registered device ppp7
registered device ppp8
registered device ppp9
registered device ppp10
registered device ppp11
registered device ppp12
registered device ppp13
registered device ppp14
registered device ppp15
registered device ppp16
registered device ppp17
registered device ppp18
general protection: 0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<00134be4>]
EFLAGS: 00010086
eax: f000ef6f ebx: 01b4500c ecx: 01b45000 edx: f000ef6f
esi: 00000207 edi: 0172ae98 ebp: 00000002 esp: 0172ae70
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process PPP (pid: 4211, process nr: 51, stackpage=0172a000)
Stack: 00000006 00df6154 00000000 00134eb6 0172ae98 00002710 00000000
00000006
bffffd3c 01b45000 00000001 01b45000 001350fa 00000006 0172af54
0172af14
0172aed4 0172af74 0172af34 0172aef4 bffffd68 00000006 bffffd1c
bffffd44
Call Trace: [<00134eb6>] [<001350fa>] [<001c1b2d>] [<001c1e26>] [<00196db9>]
[<001142ef>] [<0010ad42>]
Code: 8b 42 04 39 d8 74 05 89 c2 eb f5 90 89 4a 04 56 9d 8b 0f 85
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<00134be4>]
EFLAGS: 00010086
eax: f000ef6f ebx: 0361a00c ecx: 0361a000 edx: f000ef6f
esi: 00000207 edi: 0196ee98 ebp: 00000002 esp: 0196ee70
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process PPP (pid: 5681, process nr: 50, stackpage=0196e000)
Stack: 00000006 00df6198 00000000 00134eb6 0196ee98 bffffd68 00000000
00000006
00000000 0361a000 00000001 0361a000 001350fa 00000006 0196ef54
0196ef14
0196eed4 0196ef74 0196ef34 0196eef4 bffffd68 00000006 bffffd1c
bffffd44
Call Trace: [<00134eb6>] [<001350fa>] [<04807000>] [<001154c1>] [<0011ff29>]
[<001c1301>] [<00196cb2>]
[<001142ef>] [<0010ad42>]
Code: 8b 42 04 39 d8 74 05 89 c2 eb f5 90 89 4a 04 56 9d 8b 0f 85

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Can i do anythingh to fix the problem ???
After that message should i reboot the system or may i continue ?

Sorry for my bad english...

Regards!

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