RHEL4 System Crash: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address

[Romeo Theriault]

You might want to try these memory testing tools:

http://people.redhat.com/dledford/memtest.html
http://www.memtest.org/

Romeo

On 6/6/07, mark <m.roth2006 at rcn.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, there,
>
> Shane Presley wrote:
> >
> > I had a RHEL4 system crash a day or two ago.  First RedHat system that
> > I've ever seen completely hung, requiring me to hard power cycle it.
> > Felt like my Windows days.  But then it happened yesterday as well.
> > So something is wrong with this server.
> >
> > It's fully patched (up2date), and is a Dell 2850.  I captured the
> > /var/log/messages right before it panicked and here's the logs:
> >
> > Jun  4 21:26:42 myhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request
> > at virtual address 0f3514db
> <snip>
> > recently.  Not sure where else to look.  Could this be a hardware
> > (memory?) problem?
>
> I'm not sure if it's real memory, or a disk error, but I'd lay odds it's
> one of
> the two. The "kernel paging request" seems to indicate that.
>
> First, remake swap, and force it to check for bad blocks. If that doesn't
> find
> anything, I'd think RAM.
>
>         mark
>
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