RE: [cobalt-users] Spontaneous rebooting Raq 3i

["Gavin Nelmes-Crocker" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A quick glance suggests your ram is bad try another stick and see if that
helps

Gavin

> The raq reboots overnight now and a
> while. Since the frequency is increasing I would like to ask your opinion.
>
> I have upgraded RAM in the Raq3i recently to 512 MB and didn't have the
> problems before. (BUFFALO MEMORY 256MB ECC PC100 SDRAM DIM
> )
> The reboots are time coincident with the cron.daily jobs around 04:52
> AM, just after the scheduled backups. So it could be slocate.cron,
> tmpwatch, or vacuumdb which is causing the crash.
> My guess is it has either to do with the RAM, or the disk is getting
> old, or the latest Kernel (2.2.16C32_III) is instabel.

> "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 04000011
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 20000011
> current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c010a444>]
> EFLAGS: 00010002
> eax: c0261e58   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 00000000   edx: c0261e58
> esi: c02480a0   edi: 20000001   ebp: 00000000   esp: c0261e10
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c0261000)
> Stack: c0272000 c02480a0 c0261e50 c010a238 00000000 c0261e58 c02480a0
> 00000000
>           00000000 c0272004 c010a5b8 00000000 c0261e58 00000000 c02750a0
> c02750a1
>           0000001d c010a25c 00000000 c02703fd c02703f9 c02750a0 c02750a1
> 0000001d
> Call Trace: [<c010a238>] [<c010a5b8>] [<c010a25c>] [<c011382b>]
> [<c010eb54>] [<c
> 01faf0a>] [<c01a5178>]
>           [<c0109405>] [<c010a444>] [<c010a238>] [<c010a5b8>] [<c010a25c>]
> [<c01078
> 55>] [<c0106000>] [<c0107878>]
>           [<c01092f0>] [<c0106000>] [<c010607f>] [<c0106000>] [<c0100175>]
> Code: 8b 47 10 50 8b 54 24 1c 52 8b 06 ff d0 83 c4 0c eb 3d 89 f6
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> disabling network interfaces.
> alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c018f341
> alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c018f341
> alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c0193666
> alloc_skb called nonatomically from interrupt c0193666
> Rebooting in 5 seconds.."
>