[lug] Umm...is this bad?

[Justin]

I already disabled the screensavers. I'd rather just have the monitor 
go into power saving mode or something :)

Justin

> I'm not surprised that it was from a screen saver. It seems that most 
of
> the crashes that occur just sitting there are from this. I have also 
had
> screen saver dumps. Most of them are the OpenGL/Mesa savers, probably
> because it is using hardware accel and errors hurt the most there. But
> FYI, even if an Oops doesn't kill the system, it is a "bad thing". You
> might find who wrote the particular saver and arrange to send the core
> file, depending on how much trouble you are willing to go through.
> 
> D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com
> 
> Justin wrote:
> > 
> > The box didn't lock up or do anything bad. It's still up and running
> > right now, and with kernel 2.4.5 like it's always had. I noticed 
after
> > I sent the last email that I had a core file in my home directory.
> > After a 'file core' it showed it was from the screensaver 'coral'. 
I'll
> > wait to see if it happens again...
> > 
> > Justin
> > 
> > > Usually means that the system crashed/locked up.  It might be the
> > paging
> > > issue that has been mentioned before in conjuction with the 2.4
> > kernel.  If
> > > it keeps happening, you probably want to either go back to 2.2 or 
get
> > the
> > > latest 2.4
> > >
> > > Hugh
> > >
> > >
> > > "Justin"
> > > >
> > > > I just noticed this in my syslog a few minutes ago. Nothing was
> > really
> > > > going on that I could tell. Any idea what this means?
> > > >
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging 
request
> > at
> > > > virtual address 0000c016
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:  printing eip:
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: c38c5760
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: *pde = 00000000
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: Oops: 0000
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: CPU:    0
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c38c5760>]
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: EFLAGS: 00210086
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: eax: ffffffff   ebx: c3954000   ecx:
> > > > 00000018   edx: 00000018
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: esi: 04000001   edi: c38c5760   ebp:
> > > > 00000020   esp: c3955d34
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: Process petri (pid: 11308,
> > > > stackpage=c3955000)
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: Stack: c0106d84 c3955d40 04000001
> > c3954000
> > > > 00000018 00000018 00000000 20000001
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:        00000020 ffffffff 00000018
> > 00000018
> > > > ffffffff 00000000 c3950010 00000082
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:        00004480 c3941800 00000000
> > c3954000
> > > > 00000018 00000018 c0117974 00000001
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: Call Trace: [error_code+52/64]
> > > > [timer_bh+36/592] [proc_dostring+64/352] [do_setitimer+144/240]
> > > > [copy_files+232/608] [gdt+544/3508] [gdt+692/3508]
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: Call Trace: [<c0106d84>] 
[<c0117974>]
> > > > [<c0115880>] [<c0114000>] [<c0110018>] [<c010046c>] [<c0100500>]
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:        [unix_stream_sendmsg+568/752]
> > > > [sock_recvmsg+49/176] [schedule_timeout+132/160]
> > [sock_read+138/160]
> > > > [gdt+1844/3508] [sys_query_module+304/320] [sys_ioctl+224/416]
> > > > [system_call+51/64]
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:        [<c01c8568>] [<c0192951>]
> > > > [<c010e8b4>] [<c0192a6a>] [<c0100980>] [<c0112840>] [<c013a900>]
> > > > [<c0106c43>]
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:        [stext+43/165]
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:        [<c010002b>]
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel:
> > > > Jul  3 19:34:27 naz kernel: Code: 10 b0 17 c0 00 00 00 04 00 00 
00
> > 00
> > > > 00 38 bc c3 00 38 bc c3
> > > >
> > > > Justin
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