Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread Nate Amsden
john wrote: > > Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box > had done a kernel oops. > Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=c02d5d98) > > Can anyone shed loight on this, or point to a URL that would help me? looks like the disk may have some bad sector

Re: Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:23:37AM +1000, john wrote: > Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box > had done a kernel oops. It could be bad memory. I can't say that I've ever had memory die while in use (i.e. in a system that had been fine for a long time, hadn't be

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread john
Came into work this morning to find a new installation on a very old box had done a kernel oops. It was a minimal potato installation, with updates from security.debian.org. Would I be right in thinking it's probably bad memory? The line after the kernel panic line is: In swapper task - not syn