Re: kernel oops, 2.4.19

Marcelo Tosatti (marcelo@conectiva.com.br)
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:10:46 -0300 (BRT)


On Tue, 17 Sep 2002, Jamie Zawinski wrote:

> A while back I described some weird kernel oopses I was getting with
> the Red Hat version of 2.4.18; a few people said that it could be due
> to Red Hat changes, and that I should try a kernel.org kernel. Well,
> I finally did -- downloaded 2.4.19 from kernel.org yesterday, compiled
> and booted it, and today my X server got shot down with a
> similar-looking syslog entry (which follows.)
>
> I've checked my RAM with memtest86 3.0 with no errors.
>
> Details on the machine config and the previous crashes I had with
> RH's 2.4.18-3 and 2.4.18-5 are here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=69852
>
> I managed to run "top" on another terminal after X had hung, but
> before it had died (or at least, before the screen cleared) and it
> showed:
>
> 10:59pm up 1 day, 3:22, 1 user, load average: 3.98, 2.19, 1.45
> 78 processes: 68 sleeping, 7 running, 0 zombie, 3 stopped
> CPU states: 16.3% user, 2.1% system, 3.0% nice, 34.8% idle
> Mem: 321588K av, 289888K used, 31700K free, 0K shrd, 15564K buff
> Swap: 369380K av, 11136K used, 358244K free 223164K cached
>
> so it doesn't look like memory was a problem.
>
> Here's the latest oops. Any suggestions?

Your kernel seems to be tainted. Are you using any binary-only module?

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