[ale] big problem?

[Marc Vogt]

My friend also runs Caldera 1.3 and was working on the computer
when it started acting funny - closing netscape and xterms and
when I tried to do 'top' or pretty much anything else in a xterm
we would get a Sementation Fault.  Nothing should be too different,
haven't made many changes lately to the system.  Checked the CPU
temperature at 122F.  Is this okay?  I tried the vulcan nerve pinch
but to no avail, so we powered off (not so good, but we were stuck).
It rebooted fine
eventually and I looked in /var/log/messages for anything odd around
that time and saw:



Apr 23 17:13:22 elba kernel: Warning: dev (03:06) tty->count(1) != #fd's(2) in d
o_tty_hangup
Apr 23 17:14:18 elba pppd[15178]: Terminating on signal 15.
Apr 23 17:14:18 elba pppd[15178]: Connection terminated.
Apr 23 17:14:18 elba pppd[15178]: Exit.
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: CPU:    0
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: EIP:    0010:[sync_inodes+25/92]
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: eax: 00001500   ebx: f000e6f2   ecx: 00001600   edx
: 00000a80
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: esi: 0000030b   edi: 02d21600   ebp: 00000001   esp
: 01502ee8
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b   ss: 001
8
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: Process kscd (pid: 2639, process nr: 46, stackpage=
01502000)
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel: Stack: 00001600 001f544c 02d2f908 001257ea 00001600
 00001600 00001600 00000000
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel:        01616000 0017f42b 00001600 02d2f908 01616000
 01616000 01b73800 00000000
Apr 23 17:14:48 elba kernel:        01b73890 01b73800 00000216 0242f900 0242f900
 0242f900 00000001 00000216
Apr 23 17:14:49 elba kernel: Call Trace: [fsync_dev+26/48] [ide_release+47/216]
[iput+178/400] [__fput+28/64] [close_fp+76/92] [do_exit+288/504] [do_signal+547/
636]
Apr 23 17:14:49 elba kernel:        [signal_return+18/64]
Apr 23 17:14:49 elba kernel: Code: 66 39 3b 75 24 80 bb 88 00 00 00 00 74 09 53
e8 1b 06 00 00



I've never seen this sort of stuff before in the messages file, but then again I've never seen
a computer go crazy like that either.  Any ideas on what might be wrong?


Thanks in advance


Marc