Re: Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board

[Parag Warudkar]

Bob Richmond wrote:

> Immediately upon boot on this system, most userland programs will 
> segfault, including mount. This causes the system to come up in a 
> bizarre state with the root filesystem mounted read-only, and nothing 
> runs without segfault. There have been numerous similar posts about 
> this problem, but they also seem to point to an associated kernel 
> message, "Bad page state" that I don't observe. dmesg (which runs 
> without segfault) returns many similar messages to:
>
> start_udev[576] general protection rip:2aaaaae0fc70 rsp:7fffffb23d90 
> error:0

echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space - Seems to fix it for most 
people.

See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851 for more details.

Parag
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