Re: Incomprehensible Boot freeze & Crash - Kernel 2.6.12

["linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)" <linux-os@analogic.com>]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, thomas wrote:

> Hello,
> I'm running Debian GNU/Linux Etch on an Acer Aspire 1682 laptop with
> kernel 2.6.12-1-686. So far the system was rock solid but I'm now
> experiencing a boot freeze:
>
> ... Setting up ICE socket directory /tmp/ICE-Unix... done
> INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
> Starting system log daemon: syslogd
>
> Then, nothing. However I can boot in "recover mode" (that is, single
> user & root login). There does not seem to be any hardware failure,
> the partitions are properly mounted, and there is engough free space
> on any of them. When I shut down the box, hundreds of lines of errors
> messages are outputted. I cannot read them all but here are the last
> ones:
>
> EIP is at do_page_fault+0xd6/0x6bf
> eax: dfa40000 ebx:00000000 ecx:0000007b edx:ffffff7b esi:00030001
> edi:0000000d ebp:0000000b esp: dfa417c8
> ds: 007b es:007b ss:0008
       ^^^^^^^^^^^____ These are not correct segments!

Something is corrupting the GDT or setting incorrect segments directly.
Perhaps a driver? Or maybe your CPU is way too hot and is corrupting
segments itself?

> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffef
> printing eip:
> c0114fe6
> *pde=00002067
> *pte=00000000
> Recursive die() failure, output suppressed
> <0> Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
> _
>
> The last time Linux could boot properly, I did not perform any task at
> root: I did not install any hardware, nor I modified any config file.
> I did not change anything in the BIOS either.
>
> I have tried to boot with special options (noapic, nolapic, pci=off,
> pnpbios=off) without success.
>
> I can show any file on my system if needed.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help. I have absolutely no idea of what I
> can do; without your help I can go nowhere.
>
> Best regards,
> Thomas
> -

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.13.4 on an i686 machine (5589.66 BogoMips).
Warning : 98.36% of all statistics are fiction.
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