Kernel oops on 2.2.8/2.2.9 PIII boot

David HM Spector (spector@zeitgeist.com)
Fri, 28 May 1999 23:57:07 -0400


Anyone seen this behaviour before?

System: Tyan S1836DLUAN (Intel 440BX chipset )
CPU(s): PIII, 5000Mhz (dual processor)
Memory: 512Mb
Onboard Adaptec 7895 dual channel fast-wide

Distribution: RH5.2 with 2.2 upgrade packages.

:
:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 52k freed
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 800160c8
current->tss.c3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Ooops: 0000
CPU: 1
EIP: 0010:[<c010fb1c>]
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: 0001e9b1 eba: c009bf84 ecx: 00000010 edx: c02988c4
esi: 00000100 edi: c02560c8 ebp: 00000010 sp: c009bf60
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swap (pid: 0, process nr: 1, stackpage=c009b000)
Stack: 00000000 00000000 c009fb7c c010b14b 00000010 c009bf84 c009a000 00000000
c0109218 c009a000 c008e000 c009a000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000018 00000018 ffffff10 c01078bf 00000010 00000246 00000000 c028db4c
Call Trace: [<c010b14b>] [<c0109218>] [<c01078bf>] [<c0106000>] [<c0100018>] [<c0107b26>]
Code: 8b 86 c8 5f 25 c0 89 c2 80 e2 d7 31 db 83 c4 04 a8 03 75 06
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

The system then needs to be power-cycled. It happens with 2.2.5 through 2.2.8.

Occasionally it happens DURING an fsck with a null-pointer exception, but
I think that may be a filesystem corruption issue...

The disks are a 4 9.1Gb Seagates.

Any insights would be appreciated.

regards,
David Spector
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