unabler to handle kernel paging request

Emanuele Buttice (buttice@elecomm.net)
Tue, 21 Jan 1997 13:53:30 -0800


Hi,

I've been getting these messages the last couple of days, Running Linux
2.0.24, Intel P100 128Meg edo Ram 256k cache Gigabyte GA-586HX, adaptec
2940,seagte 1G and 2G drives, 3c590 net card.

an 21 10:56:53 gaea kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address bfffff0a
Jan 21 10:56:53 gaea last message repeated 2 times
Jan 21 10:56:53 gaea kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 04923000, |r3 = 04923000
Jan 21 10:56:53 gaea last message repeated 2 times
Jan 21 10:56:53 gaea kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jan 21 10:56:53 gaea last message repeated 2 times

Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address bfffff0a
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 03856000, |r3 = 03856000
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea syslogd: /var/run/utmp: File table overflow
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: Oops: 0000
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: CPU: 0
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: EIP: 0010:[elf_core_dump+1474/2632]
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: EFLAGS: 00010213
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: eax: 0527cd50 ebx: 0000000b ecx: 00000002
edx: 0527cd7c
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: esi: bfffff0a edi: 0527cd7c ebp:
00000054
esp: 0527cce8
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b
ss:0018
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: Process ls (pid: 2342, process nr: 126,
stackpage=0
Jan 20 18:43:54 gaea kernel: Stack: 0000000b 0527cfbc ffffffff 00000000
007a6c0c

When I get these the system status is :

105 processes: 104 sleeping, 1 running, 0 zombie, 0 stopped
CPU states: 4.4% user, 11.9% system, 0.0% nice, 84.1% idle
Mem: 127992K av, 124084K used, 3908K free, 53920K shrd, 12200K buff
Swap: 40124K av, 40K used, 40084K free 78212K cached

Does anyone know what is happening ... I reboot but then it happens
again. Can anyone help Please ...

Thanks.

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Emanuele Buttice  Buttice@elecomm.net Network Analyst 
Elecomm Corporation - www.elecomm.net