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On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:55:47PM -0400, Kevin wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 11 May 2004 14:46, Greg KH wrote: |
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> > On Tue, May 11, 2004 at 02:07:58PM -0400, Kevin wrote: |
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> > > In summary, my problem is this: of those that I've tried, I can't |
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> > > get any Gentoo kernel to handle SMP operation during major CPU |
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> > > activity (like emerging packages) for more than about 5 or 10 |
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> > > minutes. Invariably, during such activity, I get a kernel |
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> > > panic---most often with words on the console about Machine Check |
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> > > Exception 000000...004 (this number from memory so it may be off). |
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> > |
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> > This means you have bad hardware (memory, cpu, overheating, etc.) |
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> > It's the hardware saying that something bad just happened, nothing |
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> > the OS or distro did wrong here. |
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> Thanks for your reply, Greg. Although what you say here may be true in |
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> some circumstances, I think you're wrong in this case. You may have |
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> stopped reading after the above paragraph, but in the rest of my post, |
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> I describe how a SuSE9 distro installed on this same hardware has no |
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> problems doing all of the things that failed in Gentoo. That's a |
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> pretty strong indication that there are no hardware problems, isn't it? |
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Not at all. Different compilers/kernels/programs exercise hardware in |
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very different ways. It could be that your compiler settings for Gentoo |
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causes different instructions to be used for the same program on SuSE. |
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Try running memtest86 overnight as a good start to rule out your memory. |
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Good luck, |
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greg k-h |
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