Re: Crashing linux 2.2.[4-6] - what to do?

Aaron Tiensivu (mojomofo@ctechnix.com)
Mon, 31 May 1999 20:32:46 -0400


> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010: [<c011e62c>]
> Eflags: 00010086
> eax: cf89e49c ebx: c009e140 ecx:00000000 edx: c0217a88
> esi: cf89e400 edi: 00000202 ebp:00000026 esp: c0227eec
> Process swapper ( pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c0227000 )
> Aiee killing int handler
> Kernel Panic Attempted to kill the idle task !
> In swapper task - not syncing

Although I'm not the best authority on the matter, those type of Oops's
usually are the result of bad hardware.. in my experience, RAM or an
overheating CPU.

Have you tried 2.2.9 on this machine? It's possible that something your machine
is triggering has been fixed already.

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