[ale] Wierd Linux Problem

[Dana Powers]

To confirm that the problem is not related at all to your hard disks,
try downloading toms root boot and booting from it. If the machine
comes up, then your problem is most likely on the HDs somewhere, if
not - its pretty likely that you need to replace some mem chips.
dpk

ps. http://www.toms.net/rb/

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael D. Hirsch" <mhirsch at nubridges.com>
To: ale at ale.org
To: "Steven Jasmin" <tektronik at bellsouth.net>; <ale at ale.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 9:06 AM
Subject: Re: [ale] Wierd Linux Problem


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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