Re: [cobalt-users] /dev/kmem bad?

[Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 19 May 2002 04:29 pm, Dan Keller wrote:
> Dear Cobalt Experts --
>
> My RaQ 2 has been running like a champ
> for almost 3 years with nary a blip.  It's been
> utterly reliable, until... Yesterday, it stopped
> dead in its tracks.  I cycled power and it's
> running fine now, but I saw the following
> messages on boot-up:
>
> May 19 11:12:53 www kernel: klogd 1.3-3, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
> May 19 11:12:54 www kernel: Inspecting /boot/System.map
> May 19 11:12:54 www kernel: Loaded 3642 symbols from /boot/System.map.
> May 19 11:12:54 www kernel: Symbols match kernel version 2.0.34.
> May 19 11:12:54 www kernel: Error seeking in /dev/kmem
> May 19 11:12:54 www kernel: Symbol #ip_alias, value 803f1b18
> May 19 11:12:54 www kernel: Error adding kernel module table entry.
>
> Inspecting the logs, I see no other evidence
> of problems.
>
> /dev/kmem is just memory chips, right?

Yes, and no kmem is the kernel memory used to hold data structures used by 
the kernel
The error could mean the kernel process for loading modules found garbage in 
one of the kmem data structures.

check the owner.group of kmem it should be root.kmem.
It may be worth re-booting and see if it repeats itself.

Did you read the log files to see if there were any errors reported just 
before the system went down.?

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