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SubjectRe: Kernel BUG in 2.6.23.9
Tarkan Erimer wrote:
> Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> On Sun, 09 Dec 2007 14:49:16 -0500
>> Jerry Geis <geisj@pagestation.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I am using centos 5.1, 2.6.23.9 kernel. Machine works great all day.
>>> Then sometime through the night the kernel dies, the trace is below.
>>>
>>
>> is this when a 3D screensaver is active?
>> Probably worth running without the proprietary nvidia driver.... it
>> also tends to get more people to pay attention :)
>>
>>
>> In addition to this suspicion; you're the first one to report this oops
>> since at least a year as shown in
>> http://www.kerneloops.org/guilty.php?guilty=journal_dirty_data&version=2.6.23-release&start=1540096&end=1572863
>>
>>
>> so it might well be something weird on your side (like the binary
>> driver or some heat problem created by having a 3D screensaver)
>>
>>
> Hi,
>
> For a while, I have the same behavior. I tested under 2.6.23.9,
> 2.6.24-rc3 and rc4. So all of these kernels have the same issue. Also,
> I don't use any proprietary driver. My video card is Intel-945 and I
> use the "intel" driver. I use 3D screensavers as well. These kernels
> die after some long idles like 1 or 2 days after. My distribution is
> Kubuntu 7.10 and with Kubuntu kernel this behavior did not happened.
> So, how to track this interesting problem ? Any ideas welcomed :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Tarkan Erimer
>
>
>
>
>
I am not running a 3D screen saver. I was just using blank screen.
However, I did turn off the screen saver and last night my machine did
not crash.

I am still using the NVIDIA driver.
All I changed was the screen saver.

Any ideas on that?

Jerry



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