Re: almost daily Kernel oops with 2.6.23.9 - and now 2.6.23.11 aswell

From: Hugh Dickins
Date: Mon Dec 17 2007 - 10:48:16 EST


On Mon, 17 Dec 2007, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
>
> I got another crash, now with 2.6.23.11 on logout from KDE (two differences,
> new kernel, 4gb ram instead of 2gb):
>
> [ 1771.063731] Unable to handle kernel paging request at 0000040000000000 RIP:
> also I got some strange message yesterday before increasing ramsize:
> [19546.639528] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> [27999.370777] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> [27999.434282] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> [27999.466035] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> [27999.521132] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000
> [27999.561621] VM: killing process ld-linux-x86-64
> [27999.561719] swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 04000000

You're seeing a single bit set where it shouldn't be: please give
memtest86+ a good try; if it's not actually your memory that's bad,
then I'd guess it's something like overheating (please correct me,
ye who know better).

Hugh
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