free_one_pmd: bad directory entry?

Jon Lewis (jlewis@inorganic5.fdt.net)
Mon, 7 Apr 1997 20:20:01 -0400 (EDT)

I've been getting these occasionally, and just did a search on dejanews
for the answer. There were lots of reports of these, and few answers
other than one post from Linus suggesting that it's probably single bit
RAM corruption. I guess the question is, is it hardware, or kernel code
causing the corruption? Perhaps I'll have to take down this system for a
few hours to run memtest86.

kernel.01-01-97.gz:Dec 31 00:30:04 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000100
kernel.02-09-97.gz:Feb 8 17:41:55 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000200
kernel.02-12-97.gz:Feb 11 14:21:43 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000100
kernel.03-16-97.gz:Mar 15 20:13:57 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000200
kernel.03-22-97.gz:Mar 21 23:42:53 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000200
kernel.05-03-96.gz:May 2 23:47:12 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000100
kernel.05-15-96.gz:May 14 17:02:07 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000800
kernel.11-18-96.gz:Nov 17 15:01:15 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000100
kernel.12-11-96.gz:Dec 10 09:55:03 yoda kernel: free_one_pmd: bad
directory entry 00000200

BTW...does the death of the linux-*@vger mail to news gateway mean we
won't be able to take advantage of dejanews for searching the kernel list
archives?

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