Re: [Fwd: Re: Newby help. Tons and tons of Oops]

Remove your swap from your /etc/fstab and see if your problem goes away.

Quoted 58 lines · David Won

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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 02:42:44 -0500
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To: "Arnaud S . Launay"
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Subject: Re: Newby help. Tons and tons of Oops

I just noticed these errors in my log as well. Something is weird with my swapping I think. If I get Oops that say "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ff7f1014" would that not be swap since it is virtual?
The errors that make me think it may be with my swapper are as follows.

Nov 12 21:12:51 phlegmish kernel: swap_free: Trying to free nonexistent
swap-page
Nov 12 21:12:51 phlegmish kernel: swap_free: Trying to free nonexistent
swap-page
Nov 14 02:57:28 phlegmish rc.sysinit: Enabling swap space:  succeeded
Nov 14 03:01:51 phlegmish kernel: swap_free: offset exceeds max
Nov 14 03:01:51 phlegmish kernel: swap_free: offset exceeds max
Nov 14 03:17:37 phlegmish kernel: swap_free: Trying to free nonexistent
swap-page
Nov 14 03:17:37 phlegmish kernel: swap_free: Trying to free nonexistent

swap-page

And so on......
I tried deleting my swap partiton and recreating it but that made no difference. Any ideas or things to try?

Thanks for the help so far
Dave

Quoted 21 lines · Arnaud S . Launay

Quoted 5 lines · David Won

I'm running 2.4.0test11pre3. but the kernel shipped with Redhat 7 doesn't work either. When I was running 2.2.15 and RedHat 6.2 before upgrading it worked great. Never had an oops ever.
I ran a memory checker under dos as well and it didn't find anything. Any tips?

Could you please check:
1/ if memtest really worked, as I had problems with 2.4 (in fact, it wasn't launched, I had to downgrade to 2.3 for having a test) (have you seen a scrolling bar of '#' ?) (anyway, i'm sending 2.3 binary privatly) 2/ your hardware internal temperature (put your hand into the box) 3/ if every cable is correctly plugged in

It looks to me like an hardware failure, not a software one.

Arnaud.
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