[plug] Linux

[Sacha Schlegel]

Hi Andrew

A thing you can do is to update your kernel. Get the latest stable linux kernel and compile it. Better read documentation on linuxdoc.org how to compile your kernel and what to do before.

And maybe send the core file to a kernel developper to check it out.

Sacha

On Mon, Nov 26, 2001 at 04:20:05PM +0800, Andrew  Barbara wrote:
> Hi
> On of our servers crashed with the following output.  What does this mean =
> and how can we stop it from happening again?
> 
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at =
> virtual address eb851ed0
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:  printing eip:
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: c010dce1
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: pgd entry c7023eb8: 0000000000000000
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: pmd entry c7023eb8: 0000000000000000
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: ... pmd not present!
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Oops: 0000
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: CPU:    0
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: EIP:    0010:[restore_fpu+1/32]
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c010dce1>]
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: eax: c3786000   ebx: c3786000   ecx: =
> bfffe0b0   edx: 00000018
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: esi: eb851eb8   edi: 3f9eb851   ebp: =
> bfffde98   esp: c3787fb8
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Process sendmail (pid: 6746, stackpage=3Dc3=
> 787000)
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Stack: c010a029 c3786000 c01090b4 4025e9e4 =
> bfffe0b0 000eb851 eb851eb8 3f9eb851=20
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:        bfffde98 3f900000 0000002b 0000002b =
> ffffffff 40188db5 00000023 00010202=20
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:        bfffde88 0000002b=20
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Call Trace: [math_state_restore+25/64] =
> [ret_from_exception+0/16] [<eb851eb8>]=20
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Call Trace: [<c010a029>] [<c01090b4>] =
> [<eb851eb8>]=20
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:=20
> Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Code: 3a 34 32 3a 30 31 20 a1 6c 6b 25 c0 =
> 8b 54 24 04 a9 00 00 00=20
> Thanks.
> 
> Andrew Barbara,  MCP
> MMT Networks Pty Ltd
> http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au
> 
> 

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