Re: Updated RH 6.0 GNOME RPMS 6/1

[Dax Kelson <dkelson inconnect com>]

onderste@casema.net said once upon a time (Thu, 3 Jun 1999):

> Well, just upgraded (rpm -Uvvh *rpm) with the above-mentioned RPMS on my 
> 2-days new RH6.0, it seems to be doing fine, I did recompile the 2.2.9 kernel
> after that (and applied the DoS-bugfix), and now -after being away for half
> an hour- there was this kernel-message waiting for me :
> 
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 7ecc0d62
> current->tss.cr3 = 0146c000, %cr3 = 0146c000
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c01ca279>]
> EFLAGS: 00010a12
> eax: 7ecc0d5e   ebx: 00000000   ecx: 0ac0b7b9   edx: 2b02dee4
> esi: 7ecc0d5e   edi: c05f7ef0   ebp: c05f7ef0   esp: c05f7e9c
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Process fadeplot (pid: 720, process nr: 48, stackpage=c05f7000)
> Stack: 00000000 c05f7fb4 c05f7eec c05f7edc c05f7ed8 00000000 c05f7ec4 c05f7ee4
>        7ecc0d5e 40844e57 95f701da af5374eb c05f7fb4 00000000 00000000 51d58e47
>        169bcefd 3852032f c4606cb8 1d314b67 7813350f 1925cc19 349a6617 c645d522
> Call Trace: [<c01c6b6f>] [<c01c82c2>] [<c01c4149>] [<c0118987>] 
> [<c0107bb3>] [<c0107af0>]
> Code: f7 60 04 89 54 24 28 8b 54 24 5c 89 54 24 10 89 54 24 2c 89
> 
> when I switched to X there was screensaver waiting with the
> password-popupbox, after filling in the passwd and pressing enter I went to
> the controlcenter, and controlcenter's radiobutton's claimed that there was 
> no passwd needed for screensaver.
> 
> I'm using Redhat 6.0 (Hedwig) on a K6 II 333 Mhz, 32 MB RAM, it's not 
> overclocked, not using APM, Powerstuff is disabled in the BIOS,
> I enabled shadow and md5 passwd-stuff at the installation.
> 
> So, what's up ?

Could be the X server, or could be that 2.2.9 hang bug.  You need run it
through ksymoops and report it to the linux-kernel mailing list.

Read

/usr/src/linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt

and follow the instructions there.

Dax Kelson