GPF, Oops on system halt

Ethan C. Baldridge (ebaldridge@unimatrix.com)
Sat, 24 Jul 1999 15:56:34 -0400


After installing Redhat 6.0 on two brand-new workstations with identical
hardware (single AMD K6-2 450, 6G HDD, 128 MB SDRAM, AOpen 100MHz AGP
ATX motherboard), they both exhibited the same problem when shutting
down the system to move them. Repeated tests under various BIOS
settings have shown the same error.

> The system is halted.
> Stopping all md devices.
> Power down.
> general protection fault: f000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0050:[<000089c5>]
> EFLAGS: 00010046

...then the CPU register dump...

> Process halt: {pid: 2166, process nr: 13, stackpage = c7d7b000)

...then the stack dump and call traces...

> Code: <1> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000089c5
> current->tss.cr3 = 07e74000, %cr3 = 07e74000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<c0109a09>]
> EFLAGS: 0001004b

...CPU registers...

> Process halt (pid: 2166, process nr: 13, stackpage = c7d7b000)

...etc.

After restart, the filesystems are checked as if they weren't unmounted
properly.

If they are needed, I have on hand the cut information - I wasn't sure
it was necessary and wanted to save bandwidth.

If anybody can help with this, I thank you very much.

--Ethan Baldridge
Systems Administrator
UniMatrix International Corporation

The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck,
is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners.

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