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Re: Kernel panic
On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Iftach Silberman wrote:
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Peter L. Peres wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 9 Feb 1998, Iftach Silberman wrote:
> > > Hello all.
> > > I installed Slackware 3.4 (2.0.30) on a PII machine with a PCI NE2000
> > > compatible. I compiled the NE2000 support in the kernel. The computer
> > > worked great until last week, when I started hanging with "Kernel Panic:
> > > skput:over: XXXXXXX" messages. Someone told me it was related to the NIC
> > > card, someone else told me either the disk is bad or the kernel is fucked
> > > up. I replaced the disk. I compiled 2.0.33. I replaced the computer.
> > > Happend again. I replace the NE2000 card with a 3com card, and so far the
> > > computer is stable.
> > >
> > > >From what I figured out, when someone uploads files through a slow
> > > (dialup) connection, the machine hangs after a large file was sent. Does
> > > anyone have any clue as to what happened here?
> >
> > Is the machine a dual boot one ? If yes, run the PnP configuration program
> > for the NE2000 card again and see what has changed.
>
> It's not a dual boot machine, and now the same thing happend again with
> the 3com card.
>
> > One of the things that do go wrong is flaky swap partitions. Re-create the
> > swap partition from a rescue floppy, and use the -c flag with mkswap to
> > scrub it. It is possible that the slow upload causes the swap space to
> > reach a bad place in the swap partition, while storing data.
>
> I tested on two different disks, one SCSI and one IDE, on two different
> computers, and got the same result.
>
> .Iftach
>
Ok, one last trial: Is there a PCI busmastering option in the BIOS ? If
yes, make sure that the CPU is the busmaster (strong arbitration or smth.
like that). If even this won't do it, you might have to slow the machine
down a bit using a wait state.
Peter