Re: [Devil-Linux-discuss] new-testing-release_crashed

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

On Mon, September 10, 2007 12:04, Dietmar Rieder wrote:
> 2007/8/31, Heiko Zuerker <he...@zu...>:
>
>>
>> On Fri, August 31, 2007 06:23, Dietmar Rieder wrote:
>>
>>> 2007/8/23, Oliver Niesner <dig...@gm...>:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi, Heiko!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> No good news from the new testing release - it crashed after the
>>>> bootmenu on my PIII 500 intel 440BX board with an "unable to handle
>>>> kernel paging request at virtual address d0000000" error and hangs.
>>>> My
>>>> own iso crashed with the same error - it seems that the new kernel
>>>> doesn't like older hardware. On an slightly more modern PC (P4) it
>>>> starts like normal.
>>>
>>> The same happens here. After loading the initrd it crashes on my PIII
>>>  1000 (were it should finally run on).
>>> On a P4 or on my vmware it works. I build an iso for 486 and one for
>>> 686 but it doesn't make a difference...
>>>
>>
>> Can you swap out the memory on your PIII for a test?
>>
>
> Ok, I was able to get some spare memory modules. I tested it with two
> different ones, but DL doesn't boot up. DL 1.2.13 works fine on this
> machine.
>
> But I found out that on another P III (866) the new release works.
> Unfortunately I can't use the second machine because it is in use for
> another VPN gateway.

That's weird.
It may be related to another patch, like the grsecurity. Can you try
building a server version and see if it behaves better?

It is really hard to track these issues down.

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  Heiko Zuerker
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