[olug] kernel panics

[Jay Swackhamer]

Since it had been running, What I would check.

1. Dust on CPU heatsink causing temperature rise.
2. Boot from Gentoo CD or something else and run memtest to verify memory.


> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 08:57, Mike Peterson CoxMail wrote:
>> Does it fail on boot or after running for some length of time?
>
> Last night it failed after being up and running for several weeks. A
> hard boot brought it back up for a few minutes and then it failed again.
> Another hard boot and it failed during fsck.
> I powered it down for several minutes and rebooted and ran fsck.ext2 on
> /dev/hda2
> It fixed a bunch of errors and rebooted and has been up for 10 minutes
> now.
>
> Now I get:
> fatal error: locate: decode_db: 'pathlen == -11'! Corrupt Database!
> whenever I try to run 'locate'
>
>> The swap and root are on different devices correct?
>> That was just a typo on /dev/hda2 for both I would hope.
>> The installer should not allow it.
>
> woops :-) that is a typo.
> The swap partition is /dev/hda3
>
> -- Ryan
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
>> Ryan
>> O'Rourke
>> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 8:50 AM
>> To: Omaha Linux User Group
>> Subject: RE: [olug] kernel panics
>>
>
>>
>> On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 08:36, Mike Peterson CoxMail wrote:
>> > Can you provide some info about your setup?
>> > SCSI or IDE
>> > What processor
>> > What services does it provide
>>
>> IDE - one 100gb drive   /dev/hda1 /boot	100mb
>> 			/dev/hda2 /	~99gb (I know, I know...)
>> 			/dev/hda2 swap	512mb
>>
>> Processor - AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.1ghz
>>
>> Services - http, smb, nfs, ftp, sshd
>>
>> Memory - 256mb generic PC133
>>
>> I haven't written down any of the error code from the panics yet but at
>> the
>> tail end of it where it says:
>>
>> Code: blah, blah, blah
>> Kernel Panic: Aiee! killing interrupt handler...
>>
>> The "Code:" section of it looks like a MAC address format.. kind of like
>> "b3
>> cf 45 d2 93 etc, etc"
>>
>
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