System crashing every morning
"Alex Brett" <[email protected]> Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:39:51 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.axp.kernel |
|---|---|
| Organization | Brett Computers |
| Message-ID | <3CB2B6E7.19729.488C8C5@localhost> |
Every morning (UK time) when I wake up I find my system has crashed, normally at about 2am. I looked at the log for the most recent one and ran it through ksymoops. I'm quite a newbie so this doesn't mean much to me but does it mean anything to anybody here - in case you are wondering the system is an AMD K6-2 500Mhz, 128MB Ram, 40Gb IDE Hard drive, Gigabyte GA-5VMM mobo. Thanks in advance, Alex Brett [email protected] Here's the output of ksymoops: Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: c0146f66 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: *pde = 00000000 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: Oops: 0000 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: EIP: 0010:[prune_icache+54/304] Not tainted Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0146f66>] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: EFLAGS: 00010203 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: eax: 00000001 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c6a59ad8 edx: c6a59ac0 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: esi: c6a59ac0 edi: 00000000 ebp: c7783fa4 esp: c7783f88 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 5, stackpage=c7783000) Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000035 c592eac8 c4d1f208 00000000 000000c0 000000c0 0008e000 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: c0147087 ffffffcb 0000003f c012d613 00000000 000000c0 c146d130 000000c0 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: 000000c0 00000000 c7782000 00000006 c012d695 000000c0 00000000 00010f00 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: Call Trace: [shrink_icache_memory+39/64] shrink_icache_memory [kernel] 0x27 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: Call Trace: [<c0147087>] shrink_icache_memory [kernel] 0x27 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: [<c012d613>] do_try_to_free_pages [kernel] 0x23 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: [<c012d695>] kswapd [kernel] 0x55 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: [<c0105000>] stext [kernel] 0x0 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: [<c0105726>] kernel_thread [kernel] 0x26 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: [<c012d640>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 Apr 9 01:55:02 Server kernel: Code: 8b 7f 04 8d 73 f8 8b 86 0c 01 00 00 a9 38 00 00 00 74 19 68 >>EIP; c0146f66 <prune_icache+36/130> <===== Trace; c0147087 <shrink_icache_memory+27/40> Trace; c012d613 <do_try_to_free_pages+23/50> Trace; c012d695 <kswapd+55/f0> Trace; c0105000 <_stext+0/0> Trace; c0105726 <kernel_thread+26/30> Trace; c012d640 <kswapd+0/f0> Code; c0146f66 <prune_icache+36/130> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c0146f66 <prune_icache+36/130> <===== 0: 8b 7f 04 mov 0x4(%edi),%edi <===== Code; c0146f69 <prune_icache+39/130> 3: 8d 73 f8 lea 0xfffffff8(%ebx),%esi Code; c0146f6c <prune_icache+3c/130> 6: 8b 86 0c 01 00 00 mov 0x10c(%esi),%eax Code; c0146f72 <prune_icache+42/130> c: a9 38 00 00 00 test $0x38,%eax Code; c0146f77 <prune_icache+47/130> 11: 74 19 je 2c <_EIP+0x2c> c0146f92 <prune_icache+62/130> Code; c0146f79 <prune_icache+49/130> 13: 68 00 00 00 00 push $0x0