Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030344AbVI3PuU (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030345AbVI3PuU (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:20 -0400 Received: from [65.195.187.51] ([65.195.187.51]:50370 "EHLO candi.us") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030344AbVI3PuT (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Sep 2005 11:50:19 -0400 Message-ID: <433D5E9C.2030708@lorez.org> Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 08:49:48 -0700 From: Bob Richmond User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050923 Fedora/1.7.12-1.5.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: kernel-stuff@comcast.net CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Immediate general protection errors on Tyan board References: <431BE71F.2040901@lorez.org> <431BE9CE.8080302@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <431BE9CE.8080302@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1427 Lines: 35 I just got it working over the weekend. The machine had an Adaptec 29320 64-bit PCI card driving a SCSI HD. It was removed, and the drive replaced with a Serial ATA drive, and it came up fine. There were probably a lot of variables that were changed by removing the card, but I'm wondering if anyone has experienced the same symptoms with any 64-bit PCI card installed on this board. Parag Warudkar wrote: > 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/