got this kernel error - rebooted and got it again i've turned swap off because i thought it might be something to do with a my swap partition... uname -a gives: Linux notebook 2.6.9-win4lin-r6 #2 Sun Jan 16 12:55:45 EST 2005 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at mm/swap_state.c:124! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss nvidia microcode cpufreq_ondemand cpufreq_performance cpufreq_powersave evdev usbhid snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd soundcore speedstep_ich speedstep_lib uhci_hcd ndiswrapper usbcore b44 mii unix CPU: 0 EIP: 0f20:[<c0148cb5>] Tainted: P VLI EFLAGS: 00010002 (2.6.9-win4lin-r6) EIP is at __delete_from_swap_cache+0x5c/0x7a eax: 00052009 ebx: c101bf00 ecx: c02d0be0 edx: f440e6b1 esi: c1988000 edi: c1989ebc ebp: 00000067 esp: c1989e14 ds: 0f3b es: 0f3b ss: 0f28 Process kswapd0 (pid: 39, threadinfo=c1988000 task=c1950020) Stack: c100a940 c101bf00 c101bf00 c013e435 c101bf00 00000001 00000001 c02d0be0 00000000 00000000 c1989e3c c1989e3c 00000000 00000001 c101cd00 c1019800 c10180c0 c1018100 c10122e0 c1012300 c1018140 c1018180 c10181c0 c101dfa0 Call Trace: [<c013e435>] shrink_list+0x33c/0x442 [<c013d2de>] __pagevec_release+0x28/0x36 [<c013e682>] shrink_cache+0x147/0x33e [<c013de25>] shrink_slab+0x87/0x189 [<c013edeb>] shrink_zone+0x9e/0xbc [<c013f210>] balance_pgdat+0x201/0x266 [<c013f33c>] kswapd+0xc7/0xd7 [<c011707a>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x57 [<c0105a6e>] ret_from_fork+0x6/0x14 [<c011707a>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x57 [<c013f275>] kswapd+0x0/0xd7 [<c0103d19>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb Code: 52 07 00 c7 43 0c 00 00 00 00 0f ba 33 10 83 2d 08 0c 2d c0 01 83 05 54 21 38 c0 ff 83 05 6c 78 38 c001 8b 5c 24 08 83 c4 0c c3 <0f> 0b 7c 00 07 df 29 c0 eb bb 0f 0b 7b 00 07 df 29 c0 eb aa 0f <6>note: kswapd0[39] exited with preempt_count 1
Created attachment 56483 [details] oops message while untaring portage20050414 tar I copied this file from /var/log directory in the filesystem created by the minimal install cd. The end of the file shows the oops that I got
I got a very similar problem after booting from the 2004.3 minimal install CD while untaring the portage tar as follows: tar --preserve -xjf /mnt/gentoo/portage-20050414.tar.bz2 -C /mnt/gentoo/usr This continues for about five minutes after which the oops occurs. I've attached the /var/log/messages file, which should contain all the information about my machine. The oops is at the end of the file. Cheers.
Please test win4lin-sources-2.6.11
See comment #3
