Re: BIG BAD error message...


Subject: Re: BIG BAD error message...
From: Jeff Ross (jeffross@vcn.com)
Date: Thu Sep 14 2000 - 16:49:43 MDT


I'll bet this is related to the Type 11 error messages you were getting
earlier. A search of, say Red Hat (and my own experience) says that is a
bad ram error, and that can manifest itself in many ways.

Jeff Ross

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>From: Gawain Reifsnyder <gawain@guitar.net>
>To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
>Subject: BIG BAD error message...
>Date: Thu, Sep 14, 2000, 11:22 AM
>

> I've been having some problems on a Power Computing PowerTower 200e.
> I've got a couple of internal SCSI drives and I'm using bootX to
> start the second Micropolis drive which is my YDL partition.
>
> I've had some intermittent problems, and just now got this message
> when trying to load a 210MB gzipped file from a CD-ROM:
>
> --
>
> kernel panic: kernel access of bad area pc0007bfc lr c0007bf4 address
> 2000000E tsk /10
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
>
> --
>
> The message appeared when trying to transfer the file to the Linux
> machine with ftp, and then again when I tried to load the file from
> the CD-ROM.
>
> I've reformatted this disk a few times before and checked it for bad
> blocks. Prior to the Big Crash the machine reported a clean file
> system at startup.
>
> I had this message appear once before when trying to run a 'make'
> with the mySQL installer.
>
> After running fsck at the next startup, everything seems OK for a
> while, (that is until I try copying the file again)
>
> Is this the drive causing this or the file? Is there something I can
> do about it?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gawain Reifsnyder
> Guitar.net, Inc.
> http://guitar.net



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