Re: Kernel panic in 2.4.20-rc2

[Alan Cox]

On Sat, 2003-01-04 at 14:56, Thomas Speck wrote:
> Hi,
> from time to time (frequency a couple of weeks) I get the following: 
> 
> Jan  4 15:32:19 ThS-home kernel: CPU 0: Machine Check 
> Exception: 0000000000000004
> Jan  4 15:32:19 ThS-home kernel: Bank 1: f200000000000115
> Jan  4 15:32:19 ThS-home kernel: Kernel panic: CPU context corrupt
> 
> Is that a hardware problem ? 

99 times out of 100 yes. The processor raised an internal hardware trap
Typically these come from processor or cache error. It can be something
as mundane as a CPU fan problem.