[LI] AMD K6 woes

[Shivakumar Senthilvel <shiv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
I had almost completed this mail and my system crashed and i had to do
it again. For a linuxer this crashing is unpalatable. My Red Hat 6.1 is
crashing intermittently when i run X .(Which i run all the time). This
happens 2-3 times a day (did MS buy redhat :). I installed RH 6.1 on an
AMD K6-2 300 and it crashed regularly so i upgraded to a K6-3 400 but it
still happens. I have turned on all logging and created seperate logs
for kernel msgs and crit status messages but no clue in them. The
machine config is as below

AMD K6-3 400 (socket 7)
VIA chipset motherboard (VT82C598MVP)
sb 16 sound card (CT4170)
D-link 10/100 ethernet card (DFE-538TX)
cirrus logic AGP with 4 MB) (CL-GD5465)
Sony IDE CD ROM and 1.44 Floppy
128 MB single DIMM SDRAM (tweaked lilo to detect above 64 MB)
250 W SMPS (not sure)

Patches applied after install 


gnome-libs-1.0.54-1.i386.rpm
glib-1.2.6-2.i386.rpm 
gtk+-1.2.6-1.i386.rpm

Modules running

[root@vanathi /root]# lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
rtl8139                12188   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437               3548   1  (autoclean)
msdos                   5276   1  (autoclean)
fat                    30464   1  (autoclean) [msdos]
sb                     33620   0 
uart401                 5968   0  [sb]
sound                  57240   0  [sb uart401]
soundlow                 300   0  [sound]
soundcore               2372   6  [sb sound]

Disk topography
The machine is a dual boot (NT & Linux). I use linux usually unless i
need NT for some app. There is a 16 fat drive that is mounted in linux.
The root NT drive (c:) is ntfs and not mounted


Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1   *         1       382   3068383+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2           383      1024   5156865    5  Extended
/dev/hda3          1015      1027    104422+  82  Linux swap
/dev/hda5           383       764   3068383+   6  FAT16
/dev/hda6   *       765      1014   2008093+  83  Linux


Command (m for help): 


The only clue that i have is a core dump by netscape. This is happens
quite regularly but i am unable to pinpoint the problem.

[shiv@vanathi shiv]$ gdb -core ./core
GNU gdb 4.18
Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you
are
welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain
conditions.
Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for
details.
This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux".
Core was generated by `netscape --library-path
/usr/i386-glibc20-linux/lib /usr/lib/netscape/netscape-'.
Program terminated with signal 4, Illegal instruction.
#0  0x8dba07e in ?? ()
(gdb)

Any Clues ?


Regards,
Shiv
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