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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 2:31 pm    Post subject: Linux stability / new install problems Reply with quote

A previous mandrake box was unstable, crashing etc so decided to reinstall

Started the mandrake install after doing slow format with bad block check(which turned up ok) and replacing the memory

about a quarter of the way through a slackware 8.1 install, here is a summary of the error

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Illegal instruction
Invalid operan: 0000
CPU:0
EIP 0010 Not tainted

...

stack ffffff00......

code: ff ff eb d9.....

<0>kernel panic: attempted to kill the idle task
idle task not syncing



Any ideas on what this could be

thanks
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 3:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Started the mandrake install after doing slow format with bad block check(which turned up ok) and replacing the memory

about a quarter of the way through a slackware 8.1 install, here is a summary of the error


I don't quite get what you mean? You started a mandrake install and it hung then same on slack? or no mandrak install, just slack?

Either way, I'm not all that clued up about this sort-of thing anyway but I did a bit of a search and came up with a couple of memory related things. One of them was reasonably similar and only occurred with a stick in the second slot - went away with only the first slot filled.

Sorry I can't really help, but every bit counts sometimes.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 3:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

A quick search on google suggests various causes from duff memory to unrecognized(able) hardware.

If you can post the full error we may be able to find the cause.

Alternatively if you're a braver soul than I, there's the Kernel Mailing list!! Twisted Evil
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 3:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

We're trying to install Slackware. The previous OS was mandrake and it was too unstable, so we got rid of it.

Here's the full error.

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Illegal Intruction
invalid operand: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010: [<c010a043>] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010083
eax: 00000000 ebx: c02e8000 ecx: c27ce270 edx: c27cd270
esi: c0105360 edi: ffffe000 ebp: 0004e000 esp: c02edfcc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid:0, stackpage=c02ed000)
Stack: ffffff00 c0105383 00000010 00000246 c01053e7 00003ff0 00059800 c0105000 c105027 c02ee836 00000000 c032a000 c0100197
Call trace: [<c0105383>] [<c01053e7>] [<c0105000>] [<c0105027>]

Code: ff ff eb d9 90 68 01 ff ff ff eb d1 90 68 02 ff ff ff eb c9
<0> kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task!
In idle task - not syncing


Any help would be appreciated.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep as MR2 said mandrake was previously up for 150 odd days, then all of a sudden it crashed, then kept dying with random errors so I decided to reinstall but this time using slackware 8.1

Same errors, I thought it was hardware also but have already tried different memory already(always in slot 1 though) just one stick and a slow format
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Have you made sure PnP is disabled in the BIOS?

And if the Mandrake was fine for 150 days then keeps crashing and Slack crashes on install something is seriously wrong with the hardware.

Ditch it.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Yep PnP OS is disabled.

It has a 150 days uptime on the working OS, so it can't be a hardware problem surely?
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

unless something crapped itself... Sad
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That would be me... oops sorry ppl That IS POO! That IS POO! That IS POO!

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Must be a hardware problem, why would it stay up 150 days then suddenly crash? Then crash on re-install unless something fundemental was wrong.

Answer: It wouldn't Smile
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Any ideas what it could be?

We've tried different memory in it.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

By the sounds of it it's something pretty bad, one of the motherboard controllers cos it's crashing when it's probing the hardware I think.

Is the hard drive making any weird noises Twisted Evil

It's not an IBM 75gxp is it?

LOL

Not sure exactly what it is...try installing winblowze on it. That'll be more informative as to what is wrong.

If it installs run Sisoft Sandra 2002 Pro on it and find out what's what.
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 4:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

What chipset/cpu/RAM and bus speed please? Wink
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 5:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

And Kernel version??? Cool
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 7:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its not crashing when probing this is after I have mounted partitions its when actually installing files

Via chipset/100 bus speed / 2.4 kernel
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PostPosted: Thu Sep 19, 2002 8:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

While I'm merrily doing a pattern match on the vaious kernel groups Shocked and the kml can you boot up in recovery & boot the installed kernel?

If you can see if you can run
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#>ksymoops -m /boot/System.map-"your kernel" -d < /var/log/crashlog
and post the results.

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