[plug] error message in /var/log/message

[Michael L. Benjamin]

EIP is the instruction pointer. It appears the EIP contained an invalid
number that was out of bounds, or the 
kernel was for some reason not willing to handle/access the memory
address contained in the EIP.

Some suggestions:

Reseat the video card. Re-seat the RAM in the server. If the problem
keeps occurring, replace the RAM.

Make sure the CPU is clocked to the standard speed in the BIOS etc. no
overclocking. 
Remove and reseat the heatsink and renew the heatsink compound.

At first glance I believe you are looking at a hardware problem.

Mike.


-----Original Message-----
From: plug-bounces at plug.org.au [mailto:plug-bounces at plug.org.au] On
Behalf Of Jon Miller
Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 09:48 AM
To: plug at plug.org.au
Subject: [plug] error message in /var/log/message

Like to know if someone can explain what the following messages mean:

Mar  9 09:29:16 gw kernel: Code:  Bad EIP value.
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address 04e8c358 Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel:  printing eip:
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: 04e8c358
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: Oops: 0000
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: CPU:    0
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: EIP:
0010:[agp_frontend_cleanup+82363224/-1072693248]    Not tainted
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: EFLAGS: 00010293
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: eax: 00000109   ebx: e7e90000   ecx: 0806885c
edx: 00000018
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: esi: 00000016   edi: ffffffff   ebp: bffff998
esp: e7e91fc0
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: Process tar (pid: 10184, stackpage=e7e91000)
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: Stack: c0108913 00000000 0806885c 400222b4
00000016 ffffffff bffff998 00000109
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel:        0000002b 0000002b 00000109 4001eea6
00000023 00000246 bffff97c 0000002b
Mar  9 09:29:27 gw kernel: Call Trace:    [system_call+51/56]


Client told me the server was not responding when he came in and
therefore he rebooted (turned off the server).


Thanks


Jon L. Miller,  ASE, CNS, CLS, MCNE, CCNA Director/Sr Systems Consultant
MMT Networks Pty Ltd http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au Resellers for: Novell
Gold Partner, Cisco Partner, Peopletelecom, Westnet, Sophos Anti-Virus,
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