Re: Problems With SuSE 9.3 Professional

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:17:42 +0100, houghi wrote:

> ReVulse wrote:
>> The third problem is the most regular - at least once a day, usually more.
>> I've lost count of the number of times I've had to recover and run
>> "reiserfsck --rebuild-tree" to resolve issues after rebooting.
>
> As somebody else sugested, perhaps moving to 10.0 could resolve it. It
> however is just a guestimate an might not completely resolve your
> problem.
>
> Unfortunatly the fact that WindowsXP runs ok does not mean that your
> hardware is OK. It _COULD_ mean that the part that is broke is not used
> by XP. These would be the steps I would do:
> 1) do a reboot after a reiserfsck and when it started up. This so the
> colsing can be done at least once succesfully. It is a longshot, but
> might help
> 2) run memtest so you are sure the problem does not com from there.
> 3) run `tail -f /var/log/messages` and seeif something arises the moment
> it crashes.
> 4) put dmesg and/or relevant parts of /var/log/messages online somewhere
> or post it here if it is not all of it.

My Gnome session just crashed - here's the dmesg output if anyone can help :

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kernel BUG at mm/vmscan.c:371!
invalid operand: 0000 [#2]
SMP
Modules linked in: ipt_LOG ipt_limit nvidia subfs ipt_pkttype speedstep_lib freq_table usbserial thermal processor fan button battery snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss nvram ac af_packet evdev joydev st sr_mod sg edd ipt_state ip6t_REJECT ipt_REJECT 8139too mii iptable_mangle i2c_viapro i2c_core iptable_filter snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart ehci_hcd via_agp agpgart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd ip6table_mangle soundcore ip_nat_ftp uhci_hcd iptable_nat ip_conntrack_ftp usbcore ip_conntrack ip_tables ip6table_filter ip6_tables ipv6 video1394 ohci1394 parport_pc lp raw1394 ieee1394 parport capability dm_mod reiserfs ide_cd cdrom ide_disk via82cxxx ide_core sata_via libata sd_mod scsi_mod
CPU: 1
EIP: 0060:[<c014e72d>] Tainted: P U VLI
EFLAGS: 00013202 (2.6.11.4-21.7-smp)
EIP is at shrink_list+0x45d/0x490
eax: 2002004d ebx: c0367780 ecx: c11b3ab8 edx: c11b3ad8
esi: c11b3aa0 edi: db37fd68 ebp: db37fdf4 esp: db37fce4
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process X (pid: 6802, threadinfo=db37e000 task=de6bba80)
Stack: dba85e00 02000000 c1d00002 407e0280 00000000 00000000 db37fcfc db37fcfc
00000000 00000001 c1013f80 c0366500 c0366500 c140eca0 db37fd70 c0367780
00000000 00003292 c10ff7e0 c0367780 c014eeb2 c0368904 c140da60 c0368900
Call Trace:
[<c014eeb2>] refill_inactive_zone+0x3f2/0x500
[<c014ea8d>] shrink_cache+0x32d/0x360
[<c014f058>] shrink_zone+0x98/0xd0
[<c014f0ea>] shrink_caches+0x5a/0x80
[<c014f1c4>] try_to_free_pages+0xb4/0x180
[<c014802f>] __alloc_pages+0x21f/0x460
[<c0153617>] do_anonymous_page+0xa7/0x170
[<c015374a>] do_no_page+0x6a/0x2e0
[<c010b83b>] save_i387_fxsave+0x8b/0xb0
[<c0153c13>] handle_mm_fault+0x153/0x1a0
[<c0119643>] do_page_fault+0x1d3/0x59d
[<c01769c0>] __pollwait+0x0/0xd0
[<c010b6d5>] convert_fxsr_from_user+0x15/0xf0
[<c012ab5a>] run_timer_softirq+0x12a/0x1a0
[<c01265e2>] __do_softirq+0x62/0xe0
[<c0119470>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x59d
[<c010527b>] error_code+0x2b/0x30
Code: 10 a9 00 00 01 00 75 44 31 c0 f6 c2 01 0f 94 c0 f7 d8 21 c2 89 54 24 0c e9 31 fd ff ff 90 0f 0b 0c 02 71 ab 32 c0 e9 9c fd ff ff <0f> 0b 73 01 71 ab 32 c0 e9 d2 fd ff ff ba 40 a1 36 c0 e9 fb fb
<6>agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Found an AGP 3.5 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 8x mode
agpgart: Putting AGP V3 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 8x mode

Thanks,
Andy.
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