-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday, 2008-11-03 at 09:36 +0100, Joop Beris wrote:
I hope some of you can help me by shedding some light on the current situation. In short, I'd like to know if my machine is dying or if there is a software issue. The machine in question is about 7 years old and has recently started experiencing lock-ups, kernel errors and kernel-oops'.
You don't mention the suse version you run. locks-up could be bad memory, perhaps you should run the memtest.
Oct 23 00:00:04 magrathea kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000f60
These things can be reported on Bugzilla. That's why I ask about your version, too old or too new.
Oct 23 00:00:04 magrathea kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c017d37f>] Tainted: P N VLI
Ah, tainted... then they may reject the report.
The machine has an NVidia card, so the message above might be caused by the NVidia proprietary driver. I need this driver for serious projects (okay, Simcity 4 Rush Hour :-) )
You will have to reproduce without it. If it OOPS, then you should report. And if it doesn't, then you'll know who is to blame.
I'd be happy if someone can help me find out if this is a software problem, a hardware issue or perhaps both. I should mention that this machine is running openSUSE 10.3, with all the latest updates. It has been running flawlessly for several years, without any lock-ups or anything.
Ah, you did say 10.3, I didn't see it earlier. If it is a kernel bug, it might have been corrected since. Try first the plain open driver, then try 11.0 if it fails. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkkQG9MACgkQtTMYHG2NR9V7zgCfQNBzZ//2a20aVHAdNs1uzGHB WX4AoITTXcmyA8ZzS7mmrO9j7hHzkeSd =REcX -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org