Since upgrading to glibc-2.5 my system has been crashing with a Corrupted page table error when trying to generate UTF-8 locales. This does not occur with other locales. Sometimes the system recovers, sometimes it locks up completely. I've tried it with kernels gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r8 and gentoo-sources-2.6.18-r6 with the same results. I'm going to try rebuild one of those kernels without SMP support. I'll post the results in another comment. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.run locale-gen with any UTF-8 locale specified in /etc/locale.gen Actual Results: locale-gen segfaults or system locks up Expected Results: locales should be generated. error log: Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx localedef: Corrupted page table at address 2b63e7a51000 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx PGD 64a49067 PUD 683ea067 PMD 3fb78067 PTE 800062003f78a067 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx Bad pagetable: 000f [1] PREEMPT SMP Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx CPU 1 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx Modules linked in: vmnet parport_pc parport vmmon nvidia Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx Pid: 5791, comm: localedef Tainted: PF 2.6.17-gentoo-r8 #1 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx RIP: 0033:[<00002b63e6a4566a>] [<00002b63e6a4566a>] Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx RSP: 002b:00007fffc41f0f18 EFLAGS: 00010216 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx RAX: 00002b63e6c0e040 RBX: 0000000000083afe RCX: 000000000000ca0f Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx RDX: 00000000014137b0 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 00002b63e7a50fc0 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx RBP: 00002b63e842f040 R08: 0000000000080000 R09: 0000000000000000 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx R10: 0000000000000022 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 00000000005496e8 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx R13: 00000000000019e7 R14: 0000000000041d73 R15: 00002b63e842f040 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx FS: 00002b63e6c0d6d0(0000) GS:ffff810002f2a4c0(0000) knlGS:00000000f7c6d6b0 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx CR2: 00002b63e7a51000 CR3: 000000006e473000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx Process localedef (pid: 5791, threadinfo ffff810062c1e000, task ffff81007f475900) Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx Feb 14 19:08:27 onyx RIP [<00002b63e6a4566a>] RSP <00007fffc41f0f18>
Created attachment 110222 [details] emerge --info
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Try with 2.6.20 and report back please.
Same issue with 2.6.20. I think it may be a hardware problem, though I'm not exactly sure what. Memtest86 and a few hardware stress test utilities come up clean (app-benchmarks/stress and prime95). I found it doesn't just occur with locale-gen though. It's also happened while sorting or filtering large newsgroups in pan.
Hmmm...
Your kernel is tainted. Please reproduce this without the nvidia and vmware modules loaded (and make sure they weren't loaded then unloaded, it has to be clean) and post a new crash dump. Also make sure your kernel is compiled with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and that you post the crash from dmesg as opposed to syslog.
see comment #7
Sorry, I was out of town for a while. Anyways, I replaced my motherboard which solved the problem.