Re: [LI] AMD K6 woes

[Archan Paul <archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Shiv,
I have a K6-2 350MHz, Via chipset based m'board in my home. It is very
good stable and my Linux RH6.1 never crash!! I think u have some
hardware problem!!

Pl don't blame to K6-2 arch.

Archan Paul
archanp@xxxxxxxxxxx
Lateral Software Technology (Linux Lab), Chennai, India.

Shivakumar Senthilvel wrote:
> 
> 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
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> 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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