Re: Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board

[Bob Richmond <bob@lorez.org>]

I just got it working over the weekend. The machine had an Adaptec 29320 
64-bit PCI card driving a SCSI HD. It was removed, and the drive 
replaced with a Serial ATA drive, and it came up fine.

There were probably a lot of variables that were changed by removing the 
card, but I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the same symptoms with 
any 64-bit PCI card installed on this board.

Parag Warudkar wrote:

> Bob Richmond wrote:
>
> > Immediately upon boot on this system, most userland programs will 
> > segfault, including mount. This causes the system to come up in a 
> > bizarre state with the root filesystem mounted read-only, and nothing 
> > runs without segfault. There have been numerous similar posts about 
> > this problem, but they also seem to point to an associated kernel 
> > message, "Bad page state" that I don't observe. dmesg (which runs 
> > without segfault) returns many similar messages to:
> >
> > start_udev[576] general protection rip:2aaaaae0fc70 rsp:7fffffb23d90 
> > error:0
>
>
> echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space - Seems to fix it for most 
> people.
>
> See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851 for more details.
>
> Parag
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