Although the last crash trashed the hard disk, it was
possible to get some error messages (appended).
Generally:
(A) No problems if there is no cache module
(Not a hardware problem with the cache module as we
have changed it (from 256 -> 512), without success.)
(B) (A) seems to rule out RAM problems (32Mb on board).
(C) TRITON was _not_ enabled in the kernel build.
(Bios - award - set to FX option)
(D) The crashes that have occured are _very_ nasty
and are trashing libraries, files. For example, when
we tried to compile the kernel on the machine, make dep
produced *.h files with spelling mistakes....
(EG: #defipe rather than #define, duplicate blocks etc).
(E) After changing cache to 512 the machine ran
for at least 7 or 8 hours w/o problems. Yesterday crashed
again- rather Xserver (AcceleratedX - 1.3, card Matrox)
Not possible to restart. Attempts led to further disk
corruption.
(F) Other info: Two WD hard disks, ATAPI CD-ROM.
All hardware on machine known to work with
previous motherboard.)
Any help/advice would be appreciated. In particular,
is there a problem running 430HX chipset with linux
and/or is there a known cache problem with this board?
Fixes? Apart from removing cache module :-(
Final question: Even if there is a hardware problem,
I am disturbed by the degree of corruption that the
file system suffered. The last crash required
complete re-installation - e2fsck reported
duplicate blocks,...
Many thanks,
Mike Field
Jun 29 14:39:46 lanfear login: ROOT LOGIN ON tty1
un 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: general protection: 0000
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: CPU: 0
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: EIP: 0010:[<0012154a>]
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: EFLAGS: 00010202
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: eax: 0000010e ebx: 7b70016f ecx: 0001bb26 edx: 00010000
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: esi: 00000001 edi: 016f75b8 ebp: 001b03d0 esp: 010b2ee8
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: Process chown (pid: 2933, process nr: 21, stackpage=010b2000)
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: Stack: 00000000 001a2884 00000000 0012178a 00881c64 01367990 00000004 011d1027
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: 01367990 0014d7e3 001b03d0 0001bb26 00000001 00881c64 010b2fb4 010b2f7c
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: 00000004 013620dc 0001bb26 001296af 00881c64 011d1027 00000004 010b2f7c
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: Call Trace: [<0012178a>] [<0014d7e3>] [<001296af>] [<001298a5>] [<00129939>] [<00127b7f>] [<0010a3aa>]
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: Code: 66 83 7b 78 00 75 22 80 7b 7c 00 75 06 80 7b 7d 00 74 07 ba
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: general protection: 0000
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: CPU: 0
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: EIP: 0010:[<0012154a>]
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: EFLAGS: 00010202
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: eax: 0000010e ebx: 7b70016f ecx: 0001bb26 edx: 00010000
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: esi: 00000001 edi: 016f75b8 ebp: 001b03d0 esp: 010b2ee8
un 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: Process chgrp (pid: 2934, process nr: 21, stackpage=010b2000)
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: Stack: 00000000 001a2884 00000000 0012178a 00881c64 010b2fb4 00000004 010dd027
un 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: 0014d727 0014d742 001b03d0 0001bb26 00000001 00881c64 010b2fb4 010b2f7c
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: 00000004 00881c64 0001bb26 001296af 00881c64 010dd027 00000004 010b2f7c
Jun 30 06:40:46 lanfear linux: Call Trace: [<0012178a>] [<0014d727>] [<0014d742>] [<001296af>] [<001298a5>] [<00129939>] [<00127b7f>]
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: [<0010a3aa>]
un 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: Code: 66 83 7b 78 00 75 22 80 7b 7c 00 75 06 80 7b 7d 00 74 07 ba
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: general protection: 0000
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: CPU: 0
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: EIP: 0010:[<0012154a>]
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: EFLAGS: 00010202
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: eax: 0000010e ebx: 7b70016f ecx: 0001bb26 edx: 00010000
un 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: esi: 00000001 edi: 016f75b8 ebp: 001b03d0 esp: 010b2ee8
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: ds: 0018 af>] [<001297c1>] [<00129881>] [<00129939>]
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: [<00127b7f>] [<0010a3aa>]
Jun 30 06:40:47 lanfear linux: Code: 66 83 7b 78 00 75 22 80 7b 7c 00 75 06 80 7b 7d 00 74 07 ba
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(NB For un read Jun - my copying error).