[nylug-talk] A Weird Problem

[Peter C. Norton]

That kernel version had problems.  Upgrade to at least 2.2.19, or whatever
the latest kernel rpm redhat provides, and this'll go away.

-Peter

On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 02:32:38PM -0800, jose sanchez wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I am currently running RH 6.2 on an old 100Mhz box.
> I've had come accross some weird problems. The box
> tends to lock up once in a while. I thought it was ok
> (I'm so use to this with my Win machine). Now it has
> started to worry me. I am running a DHCP server for
> our network at work, due to this problem our network
> has become affected. 
> 
> I never turn this machine off. Sometimes I've come to
> work and no one can get on the network. I check this
> machine and there is so much stuff on the screen: A
> lot of Hex addresses... The last three lines, which
> are the only readable ones, read as follow:
> 
> Aiee, killing interrupt handler
> Kernel panic: Attempted to kill idle task!
> In Swapper task - not syncing
> 
> I don't know what all this means. I'm suspecting
> something's wrong in the kernel trying to wakeup some
> IRQs. Linux hasn't been that reliable to me. I don't
> know if I'm configuring things wrong or what. Just
> know, this is way above my head.
> 
> Please help. Thanks. 
> 
> Kernel version: 2.2.14-5.0
> 
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