Re: Bad swap device?
Bill Hawes (whawes@star.net)
Sat, 08 Nov 1997 13:53:19 -0500
Matthew Harrell wrote:
> I just got this crash a minute ago with 2.1.62.
>
> Nov 7 09:56:52 charon kernel: Internal error: bad swap-device
> Nov 7 09:56:52 charon kernel: swap_free: Trying to free nonexistent swap-page
> Nov 7 09:56:52 charon last message repeated 16 times
> Nov 7 09:56:52 charon kernel: swap_free: offset exceeds max
> I performed a full reformat and check of my swap space when the system was
> installed and just now when I rebooted and they showed no problems. What
> happened?
It looks like something corrupted your page tables, so that they appear
to have references to swap pages. I don't think there's anything wrong
with your swap device or file itself -- just some bogus references.
But this looks like a pretty serious bug ...
Regards,
Bill