Re: Bus error (core dumped) problem

On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, bugghy wrote:

> Hy, I'm having a problem on my 5.2.1-RELEASE-p8 workstation:
>
> 	My hdd started to freeze before shutdown or on random commands:

You might check for the normal hardware culprits:
. CPU cooling -- fans, etc.
. Bad memory
. Damaged power supply
. Overclocking

Does the error go away if you don't load the vmmon module?

>
> # grep error -A 2 -B 2 /var/log/messages
> Jun 30 18:50:30 illusion kernel: vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
> Jun 30 18:51:32 illusion kernel: pid 705 (sh), uid 0: exited on signal
> 10 (core dumped)
> Jun 30 18:51:32 illusion fsck: Bus error (core dumped)
> Jun 30 18:52:40 illusion su: bugghy to root on /dev/ttyp0
> Jun 30 19:10:06 illusion syslogd: kernel boot file is
> /boot/kernel/kernel
> --
> Jul  1 13:11:54 illusion kernel: vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
> Jul  1 13:24:46 illusion syslogd: kernel boot file is
> /boot/kernel/kernel
> Jul  1 13:24:46 illusion kernel:
> usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/cc/cc_int/rtl-error.o
> Jul  1 13:24:46 illusion kernel: WARNING: /home: multilabel flag on fs
> but no MAC support
> Jul  1 13:24:46 illusion kernel: IPv6 packet filtering initialized,
> logging disabled
>
> 	After I manually reboot, system enters in single user mode, I fscked
> and continued booting but here goes nothing:
>
> # dmesg
> cc/cc_int/fibheap.o
> WARNING: /home: multilabel flag on fs but no MAC support
> IPv6 packet filtering initialized, logging disabled
> WARNING: driver "vmmon" used unreserved major device number 200
> vmmon: Module vmmon: registered with major=200 minor=0 tag=$Name:
> build-570 (3.2.x mvm) $
> vmmon: Module vmmon: initialized
> pid 949 (sh), uid 1001: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
>
> (the vmmon driver is needed by vmware3 and I guess unrelated to the
> problem as I've run vmware for over three months with the same driver).
>
> The core files are found here:
>
> 	http://rootshell.be/~bugghy/sh.core.1
> 	http://rootshell.be/~bugghy/sh.core.2
>
> Note that I successfully ran this workstation for more than a year
> without problems and I didn't install something particularly interesting
> lately.
>
>

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