Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Feb 2006 23:55:42 +0000 | From | Dave Spring <> | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:486 - kernel 2.6.15-r1 |
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Just for closure's sake: This turned out to be a hardware problem. Memtest86+ http://www.memtest.org/ found an intermittent and pattern-sensitive memory error, and only appearing at one or two random locations within the 256M module. Replacing the dodgy RAM module did the trick. Dave Spring wrote:
>>> running kernels with or without PREEMPT enabled. >>> >> If you don't actually *need* accelerated 3D (or if you could do >> without it for a while), switching to the "nv" driver for a few >> days/weeks would be interresting. If the crashes go away that would >> point towards the nvidia driver, if they don't go away we'll get a >> nice untainted crash report. > > > It's not the nv drivers - or at least not just them. > I'm getting this bug once or twice a day on a mini-ITX (C3 533Mhz > processor) based server which doesn't even have X installed. > For me, it appeared sometime after 2.6.12. > I'm now running with gentoo 2.6.15-r1 with Hugh's recently posted patch, > and waiting 8-| > > Dave Spring
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