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Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 14:50:38 -0400 (EDT)
From: Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>
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To: Torsten Wolf <t.wolf@tu-bs.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.4.20 - kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:102!
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On Wed, 28 May 2003, Torsten Wolf wrote:

> since I use 2.4.20 (debian source package on Debian testing)
> occasionally the following pops up in my syslog:
> 
> kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:102!
> kernel: invalid operand: 0000
> kernel: CPU:    0
> kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c0133bc3>]    Tainted: PF
> kernel: EFLAGS: 00013282
>
> This happens both under load (bzip my backup) and in idle periods. The
> system seems to be totally functional after this. Google gave several
> results, where people described the same issue, also with 2.4.20.
> Unfortunately the rare answers were not helpful. What makes the kernel
> tainted are vmware's modules (however, vmware was not running when the
> bug happened) and perhaps Intels e100 driver. lsmod yields the
> following:

I suggest you try and reproduce this one without those modules loaded at 
all.

	Zwane
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