From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750897AbVLaAmq (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:42:46 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751034AbVLaAmq (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:42:46 -0500 Received: from [202.67.154.148] ([202.67.154.148]:48098 "EHLO ns666.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbVLaAmp (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 19:42:45 -0500 Message-ID: <43B5D3ED.3080504@ns666.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 01:42:21 +0100 From: Mark v Wolher User-Agent: Mozilla/4.8 [en] (Windows NT 5.1; U) X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alistair John Strachan CC: Lee Revell , Folkert van Heusden , Jesper Juhl , Linux Kernel Subject: Re: system keeps freezing once every 24 hours / random apps crashing References: <43B53EAB.3070800@ns666.com> <200512302356.59749.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <43B5CEB8.9070801@ns666.com> <200512310027.47757.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <200512310027.47757.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.91.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alistair John Strachan wrote: > On Saturday 31 December 2005 00:20, Mark v Wolher wrote: > [snip] > >>>This is good news -- you stand a better chance of achieving the stability >>>you require by eliminating variables. VMWare and NVIDIA are useful >>>softwares, and I would not deny that, but they are closed source and thus >>>any conflicts resulting from their use are not necessary LKML material >>>(however, if the interaction is generic and is as a result of a kernel >>>bug, then the maintainer would very much like to hear it). >> >>Okay, i have something interesting now, i only had the nvidia module >>loaded so my x-configuration starts up as usual. (not saying the nvidia >>module is flawless, i'm sure it still contains bugs) >>But here is the crash info, this time it was mozilla, i think this >>speaks more hehe : >> >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: mm/memory.c:106: bad pgd 061f0c08. >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: mm/memory.c:106: bad pgd 06b96000. >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: mm/memory.c:106: bad pgd 18000bf8. >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: kernel BUG at mm/mmap.c:2214! >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: invalid operand: 0000 [#1] >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: SMP >>Dec 31 00:55:28 localhost kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia > > > Steady and sure progress. Now, the trace below doesn't explicitly mention any > nvidia symbols, but this line must disappear before anybody will bother to > read your report. > > Remove the module. This does not mean unload, this means "never load in the > first place". Then reproduce the problem. If you are successful, send a new > email (not pinned to this thread) with a subject a la "kernel BUG at > mm/mmap.c:2214". State that the kernel is not tainted. > > At this point all you can do is wait. Good luck! > Well, i guess i'll have to do that to be sure. But i must say that i did try the nv module and de-installed the nvidia binary module. It didn't matter, the system froze but didn't leave anything in the logs, this time it did. Doesn't that help at all ? I'll try again, put nv up and wait for a something to happen. If some one has in the meantime more advise or maybe even could check out of curiousity why it says kernel BUG i'd appreciate it ofcourse.