[ale] Wierd Linux Problem

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Wed Oct 30 09:06:12 EST 2002


Since no one else has answered, here's my impression.  You have bad 
memory.  Try pulling banks out one at a time and see if anything 
improves.

--michael

On Tuesday 29 October 2002 04:24 pm, Steven Jasmin wrote:
> Heres the long and the short of it. Im a freshmen at Emory been into
> computers for a long time. Finally decided to learn about linux about
> 2.5 years ago. I have been messing with it off and on ever since.
> Nothing serious, I am normally a very utilitarian person so i learn
> to do what i need to do which has slowed my linux learning down quite
> a bit since im not one to just sit and fuck around with shit. Anyways
> i am now at the point where i run a website, host an ftp site, have
> samba running and can navigate realitively well through the linux
> system. I am running mandrake 8.2. The servers main focus is storage.
> At the moment i have 2 60 gigs a 12 gig and a 120 gig hard drive
> along with a 2 gig drive that the os is on.  Everything was running
> fine. I would occasionally get wierd kernel panics but nothing that a
> reboot didnt solve.  All of a sudden one day the server just
> completely crashed and when i rebooted i keep hanging after it tries
> to free unused kernel memory.
>
> The exact hang occurs after this line:
> Freeing Unsued Kernel Memory: 260K freed
>
> This happens on both a normal boot up and a fail safe boot up. Im
> downloading 9.0 and am gonna install that just wondering if anyone
> has heard of this error before. I looked over google and everything
> that i could find seem to be with messed up libraries but i have no
> idea how they got messed up in the first place.
>
> Thanks for any info and help.....
>
>
> Steven
>
>
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