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Legacy Forums => General Discussion (Legacy) => Topic started by: christina on March 26, 2001, 03:40:17 AM
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I have been running 3.x successfully for a long time, and then finally upgraded to 4.0.1 (I think) in the past month. Today I downloaded and installed 4.1.1. The installation went smoothly, the restore worked fine, and when I start it up everything is hunky-dory (including webmail, yay!).
However, after I completed the install I left for a while, then came back to browse the web from a machine on the network (which has also been working flawlessly). I don't get anything, can't get on the internet, and can't connect to the e-smith manager. So I look at the server console, and it's crashed. I've never seen Linux crashes so don't even know how to troubleshoot them.
Please help... what should I be looking for in the error messages that are splashed across the console? I don't know what's important in the error message, and it's a whole lot of text. I know there was a general protection fault, an "Aiee, killing interrupt handler," and a "Kernel panic: attempted to kill the idle task!" I will gladly note any other pertinent info.
Unfortunately I have to reboot the server to get back online when I want to send a help message such as this one, so I guess the next time it happens I'll just have to write down as much of the pertinent data as possible and then go searching for a cause.
Thanks for any light you may be able to shed...
Christina.
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Well, I may have solved my problem..
I searched on the error message I included in my last post ("Aiee, killing interrupt handler," and a "Kernel panic: attempted to kill the idle task!" [In swapper task - not syncing]) and there was one cryptic message concerning a cd-rom conflict with the IDE hard drive. So I pulled out my cd-rom and lo and behold, no crashing yet. I have been up for 1 hour and 47 minutes. If I last through the night I'll consider myself golden.
Guess I just have to be a little bolder about finding out what all those messages mean. I mean, I can decipher and solve a WinNT BSOD - that's my job. But Linux is still somewhat foreign to me. I'm learning.
Christina.