System Crashes at Random Times
I am running Debian 0.93R6 on a 100P Micron with and Etherlink III card.
The system hangs from time to time with no apparent pattern --- different
applications (pine, Netscape, Maple) and sometimes when I'm not even in
the office and nothing is running. My guess is that the problem is
connected to the ethernet and/or Etherlink III card because I've
unplugged the ethernet connection for extended periods of time and never
have a problem when it's not connected. Here are the messages from
/var/adm/messages for the last two crashes:
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: Oops: 0002
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: EIP: 0010:0013f5ef
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: EFLAGS: 00013293
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: eax: 0013f60a ebx: 011fd410 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000001
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000001 ebp: 014ddee0 esp: 01169e04
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: Process X (pid: 217, process nr: 25, stackpage=01169000)
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: Stack: 011fd410 00000000 00000001 0013f6c0 011fd410 00000001 00000000 00000001
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: 00000001 00147874 011fd410 00000001 00000000 00000000 00134a5d 014ddf54
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: 00000001 00000000 00134a10 00259510 00132d42 014ddee0 00259510 00000001
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: Call Trace: 0013f6c0 00147874 00134a5d 00134a10 00132d42 00132f0f 0016ade8
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: 0016ade8 001332a4 00110749 00174cc0
Mar 26 08:16:16 pareto kernel: Code: 01 0f 85 9a 00 00 00 c6 43 30 01 53 e8 40 f7 ff ff 83 c4 04
Mar 26 08:19:16 pareto syslogd: restart
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: Oops: 0002
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: EIP: 0010:0013f5ef
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: EFLAGS: 00013293
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: eax: 0013f60a ebx: 01434410 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000001
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000001 ebp: 0117d8c0 esp: 00fb8e04
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: Process X (pid: 235, process nr: 20, stackpage=00fb8000)
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: Stack: 01434410 00000000 00000001 0013f6c0 01434410 00000001 00000000 00000001
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: 00000001 00147874 01434410 00000001 00000000 00000000 00134a5d 0117d934
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: 00000001 00000000 00134a10 00259780 00132d42 0117d8c0 00259780 00000001
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: Call Trace: 0013f6c0 00147874 00134a5d 00134a10 00132d42 00132f0f 0016ade8
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: 0016ade8 001332a4 00110749 00174cc0
Mar 29 10:35:37 pareto kernel: Code: 01 0f 85 9a 00 00 00 c6 43 30 01 53 e8 40 f7 ff ff 83 c4 04
Mar 29 11:44:03 pareto syslogd: restart
I don't know how to interpret these messages or where to go from here. Could
anyone give me a push in the right direction?
Also, is the Etherlink III card a reasonable one to be using? Is there a
recommended card for Linux/Debian?
Thanks,
Dan
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Daniel A. Graham Professor of Economics
dag@econ.duke.edu Duke University
919 660-1802 Durham NC 27708-0097
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