A couple of week ago I upgraded my computer from a good-ol' Pentium133
to a Pentium II 400. So I had to change also the motherboard (Epox
EP-BX3), the ram chips (2x64 MB, they were sold me as good for 100 MHz
bus, the computer BIOS says they're 60 ns), and the case obviously.
This flashing new machine is driving me crazy. It crashes suddenly,
without notice, without leaving a trace in the logs, without even
giving me the possibility to use the Alt-SysRq keys.
The sudden death _seems_ to happen only when using X, but I can't
swear on this. The last 20 times happened only in X though. It happens
without any relationship to the programs running. One time dies when I
open the fvwm menu, another when I try to read an attachment from
inside emacs Gnus, another when starting tkSETI.
I *DO* have MTRR active and I have also the APM "power down" option
activated.
Here are some info's:
root@penny:/proc # sh /usr/src/linux/scripts/ver_linux
-- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or looks
-- unusual then possibly you have very old versions)
Linux penny 2.2.12 #2 Sun Oct 17 18:57:29 CEST 1999 i686 unknown
Kernel modules 2.3.5
Gnu C 2.95.2
Binutils 2.9.5.0.16
Linux C Library 2.1.2
Dynamic linker ldd: version 1.9.11
Procps 2.0.3
Mount 2.9x
Net-tools 2.01
Console-tools 0.2.2
Sh-utils 2.0
Sh-utils Parker.
Sh-utils
Sh-utils Inc.
Sh-utils NO
Sh-utils PURPOSE.
Modules Loaded ipv6 ppp nfsd lockd sunrpc eepro100 rose netrom
lm78 sensors smbus i2c-isa i2c-proc i2c-core
root@penny:/proc # cat apm
1.9 1.2 0x07 0x01 0xff 0x80 -1% -1 ?
root@penny:/proc # cat mtrr
reg00: base=0x00000000 ( 0MB), size= 128MB: write-back, count=1
reg01: base=0xe4000000 (3648MB), size= 4MB: write-combining, count=1
root@penny:/proc #
and here is my .config
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M686=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_1GB=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GOANY=y
CONFIG_PCI_BIOS=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_QUIRKS=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=m
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y
CONFIG_APM_RTC_IS_GMT=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD=y
CONFIG_MD_LINEAR=m
CONFIG_MD_STRIPED=m
CONFIG_MD_MIRRORING=m
CONFIG_MD_RAID5=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_FILTER=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_TOS=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_NAT=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV=y
CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_FWMARK=y
CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_ICMP=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MOD=y
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPAUTOFW=m
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_IPPORTFW=m
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE_MFW=m
CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m
CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y
CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y
CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_IPV6=m
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_EL3=y
CONFIG_NET_EISA=y
CONFIG_EEXPRESS_PRO100=m
CONFIG_PLIP=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_SLIP=y
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
CONFIG_HAMRADIO=y
CONFIG_AX25=y
CONFIG_AX25_DAMA_SLAVE=y
CONFIG_NETROM=m
CONFIG_ROSE=m
CONFIG_MKISS=y
CONFIG_6PACK=m
CONFIG_BPQETHER=m
CONFIG_DMASCC=m
CONFIG_SCC=m
CONFIG_BAYCOM_SER_FDX=m
CONFIG_BAYCOM_SER_HDX=m
CONFIG_BAYCOM_PAR=m
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM=m
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM_SBC=y
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM_AFSK1200=y
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM_AFSK2400_7=y
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM_AFSK2400_8=y
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM_HAPN4800=y
CONFIG_SOUNDMODEM_FSK9600=y
CONFIG_YAM=m
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=512
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_NVRAM=m
CONFIG_RTC=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_NTFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NTFS_RW=y
CONFIG_HPFS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_ROMFS_FS=m
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_CODA_FS=m
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_850=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_1=m
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_SOUND_VMIDI=m
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m
CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y
The LM78 modules listed above are added as an external package, but
the crashes happened even when those modules were not present.
What else can I do to find what's causing these deaths ?
Thanks
Pf
P.S. I've tried 2.3.22 but it crashes almost immediately, in this case
giving the familiar oops'es
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