On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 20:24:22 +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am having problems with my machine, it keeps hanging. First I thought
> it was the graphics card, an ATI card using the ATI driver. I upgraded
> from Sarge to Etch, then switched to an Nvidia card, both with the
> Nvidia and ATI drivers.
>
> Today I managed to capture the crash message, by watching the syslog
> from a remote terminal. This is the crash message, at least the end of
> it (the rest got lost in the scrollback, when I tried capturing it, but
> I did take some photos of it with my digital camera in case there is
> something I need to reproduce:
>
>
> kernel: Stack: dbdfc000 b01f3701 d8e85be8 da7f6e60 00000300 d8ca8f20 00000003
> 00000008
> kernel: d8e85e54 d8e85e58 003fff8a 00000000 00000000 003fff8a 00000000
> 00000000
> kernel: Call Trace:
> kernel: <b01f3701> tty_poll+0x21/0x60 <b0162fd8> do_select+0x223/0x3c7
> kernel: <b016367e> __pollwait+0x0/0xb2 <b0116fb2>
> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
> kernel: <b0116fb2> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc <b0116fb2>
> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc
> last message repeated 7 times
> kernel: <b0116fb2> default_wake_function+0x0/0xc <b0215c24>
> do_sock_write+0xa3/0xaa
> kernel: <b0163406> core_sys_select+0x28a/0x2a7 <b01074f4>
> convert_fxsr_to_user+0xef/0x143
> kernel: <b010782d> save_i387+0xf4/0x106 <b0101fb3>
> setup_sigcontext+0x107/0x18e
> kernel: <b010275c> do_notify_resume+0x4d5/0x5be <b012e664>
> __remove_hrtimer+0x1d/0x26
> kernel: <b012e894> hrtimer_try_to_cancel+0x38/0x3e <b0107345>
> convert_fxsr_from_user+0x15/0xd5
> kernel: <b01639c7> sys_select+0x9f/0x180 <b0105a16>
> do_gettimeofday+0x19/0x9b
> kernel: <b0102af3> sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75
> kernel: Code: 00 00 20 58 8b 83 30 01 00 00 5b c3 85 c0 53 89 c3 75 18 8b 42
> 38 51 89 c2 c1 e8 14 81 e2 ff ff 0f 00 52 50 68 7a ab 29 b0 eb 20 <31> c0 81
> 3b 01 54 00 00 74 23 8b 42 38 51 89 c2 c1 e8 14 81 e2
> kernel: EIP: [<b01f254f>] tty_paranoia_check+0x1f/0x4e SS:ESP 0068:d8e85b78
>
>
> I am using a stock kernel from Debian:
>
> Linux version 2.6.17-2-k7 (Debian 2.6.17-9) ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc
> version 4.1.2 20060901 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-13)) #1 SMP Wed Sep
> 13 17:18:46 UTC 2006
>
>
> Does anyone have any ideas what the problem might be? Should I file a
> kernel bug?
I do not know enough about the kernel to answer that. Sporadic crashes
without an easily identifiable trigger can also be caused by a hardware
problem (RAM, CPU temperature, power supply voltages, etc.) so it might
be worthwhile to check that first with memtest86+ and lm-sensors.
--
Regards,
Florian
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