[ltp] Kernel panics

[Matthias Laessig]

On Sun, 24 Oct 1999, Joshua Jore wrote:

> I've been having a problem where I first install Slackware 4.0 on the ThinkPad
> 760EL, upgrade to the 2.2.13 kernel, compile the latest card service modules and
> then... if I let the laptop sit long enough stuff just starts dying. It looks
> like it starts with kswapd doing something like a stack dump. ps -A reveals that
> kswapd is now defunct and other processes start going down if I let the laptop
> sit long enough.

Might be a thermic problem... does this happen if the box is idle all the
time? 

> I was prompted to write this inquiry since I set the laptop up on the intranet
> and was telnetting into it so that it could do long processes like compiling X,
> Qt and KDE over the weekend. During the compilation of Qt the laptop stopped
> responding and when I drove into the office today to see what had transpired, I
> found a full page of hex with some errors at the bottom.
> 
> Is there anyone here who knows what might be going on here?
> 
> I typed the contents of the screen onto notepad on the other computer so here's
> that:
> 
> a8>] [<c010e002>] [<c019e7a8>]
> [<c0108afd>] [<c0136718>] [<c0116295>] [<c01162a5>] [<c0108f30>] [<c019d6ac>]
> [<c019e7a8>] [<c019e992>]
> [<c019e7a8>] [<c0108afd>] [<c0136718>] [<c0116295>] [<c01162a5>] [<c0108f30>]
> [<c019d6ac>] [<c019e7a8>]
> [<c010e002>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c0108afd>] [<c0136718>] [<c0116285>] [<c01162a5>]
> [<c0108f2b>] [<c0108f30>]
> [<c019d6ac>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c010e002>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c0108afd>] [<c0136718>]
> [<c0116295>] [<c01162a5>]
> [<c0108f30>] [<c019d6ac>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c010e002>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c0108afd>]
> [<c0136718>] [<c0116295>]
> [<c01162a5>] [<c0108f30>] [<c019d6ac>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c010e002>] [<c019e7a8>]
> [<c0108afd>] [<c0136718>]
> [<c0116295>] [<c01162a5>] [<c0108f30>] [<c019d6ac>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c010e002>]
> [<c019e7a8>] [<c0108afd>]
> [<c0136718>] [<c0116295>] [<c01162a5>] [<c0108f30>] [<c019d6ac>] [<c019e7a8>]
> [<c010e002>] [<c019e7a8>]
> [<c01098f8>] [<c0108afd>] [<c0136718>] [<c0116295>] [<c01162a5>] [<c0108f30>]
> [<c019d6ac>] [<c019e7a8>]
> [<c010e002>] [<c019e7a8>] [<c0108afd>] [<c0136718>]
> Code: 89 50 04 b8 01 00 00 00 eb 03 90 31 c0 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
> In interrupt handler - not syncing

If you compile do you get errors like SIGELF? (That would be a
RAM-Problem) Or does the box simply die like this (kernel panic)?

Can you send me all info about the 760el incl. /proc/pci, /proc/nvram and
/proc/cpuinfo - did you check /var/log/messages for the panic-dump?
(please send me a copy of that too)

/matthi.

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