Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932259AbVIEGqk (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 02:46:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932260AbVIEGqk (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 02:46:40 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:22470 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932259AbVIEGqk (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Sep 2005 02:46:40 -0400 Message-ID: <431BE9CE.8080302@comcast.net> Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 02:46:38 -0400 From: Parag Warudkar User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Richmond CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board References: <431BE71F.2040901@lorez.org> In-Reply-To: <431BE71F.2040901@lorez.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 983 Lines: 24 Bob Richmond wrote: > Immediately upon boot on this system, most userland programs will > segfault, including mount. This causes the system to come up in a > bizarre state with the root filesystem mounted read-only, and nothing > runs without segfault. There have been numerous similar posts about > this problem, but they also seem to point to an associated kernel > message, "Bad page state" that I don't observe. dmesg (which runs > without segfault) returns many similar messages to: > > start_udev[576] general protection rip:2aaaaae0fc70 rsp:7fffffb23d90 > error:0 echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space - Seems to fix it for most people. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4851 for more details. Parag - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/