I suspect memory problems, or a cpu floating point problem (very
unlikely).
I believe your ram is bad. turn your machine off, remove your ram and
re-insert. If is due to dirty sockets (oxidation), this might fix it for
a while.
On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, John LeMay wrote:
> Since a system "crash" Friday, I've been trying to restabilize my box. I
> just noticed the error below in my messages log. Thought someone may be
> able to provide some insight as to a meaning. I'm hoping it leads to the
> real problem here! (I posted another message captured earlier today
> regarding the same problem, different error though.)
>
> Quick background - system is a PPro 200, 128M RAM, running Mandrake 6.0
> with updates and kernel 2.2.12. I accidentally sent a sigterm to X on
> Friday hanging the box completely. Upon reboot, I noticed several errors
> regarding deleted inode's. asclock seemed to have disappeared - no trace
> of the binary. Since then, the machine has been dumping out of X and
> hanging itself completely with no notice and no errors in the logs.
>
> This message comes about an hour or so after I completed a restore of
> /usr and a couple other dirs. The system had been error free prior to
> Friday.
>
>
> Oct 30 22:11:45 logan -- MARK --
> Oct 30 22:31:45 logan -- MARK --
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: divide error: 0000
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: CPU: 0
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: EIP: 0010:[sys_select+1224/1336]
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000024 ecx:
> 00000001 edx: 00000000
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: esi: c72a7e2c edi: bffff9bc ebp:
> 00000000 esp: c5b47f78
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Process rxvt (pid: 583, process nr: 47,
> stackpage=c5b47000)
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Stack: bffff9b4 bffffa3c 00000001 c72a7e2c
> 0000541b 00000000 c5706c00 c5b47fa8
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: 00000001 c5b46000 c72a7e20 00000000
> c72a7e20 c72a7e24 c72a7e28 c72a7e2c
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: c72a7e30 c72a7e34 c0107994 00000005
> bffff9bc 00000000 00000000 bffff9b4
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Call Trace: [system_call+52/56]
> [startup_32+43/286]
> Oct 30 22:45:03 logan kernel: Code: f3 a5 89 c1 f3 a4 89 f6 8b 54 24 48
> 89 54 24 14 83 7c 24 5c
> Oct 30 22:59:56 logan PAM_pwdb[487]: (login) session opened for user
> root by (uid=0)
> Oct 30 22:59:56 logan --
> root
>
