From: vspr@cs.sun.ac.za (Paul van Spronsen) Subject: "Cannot handle paging req" Date: 11 Mar 1993 19:52:34 GMT
History:
Originally I had a little trouble starting X. One thing led to another and
I managed to get X going (ask me not how, but nothing fancy or dangerous).
Then I accidently CAT'd a core file (call me silly) and was forced to reboot
(keyboard locked up, all sorts of nasty effects). Next I booted and tried
to copy some files onto my ext file system partition only to find that
there was "no space left on device", all the while df reported 32MB free
(hey what's 32MB between sectors?). I ran efsck with (I hope) the right
parameters and it reported blocks that were marked as used, but not allocated
to a file. This problem seemingly solved, I used the machine for ~5 mins
when all of a sudden my sessions started hanging (every time I wanted to
go to disk).
On bootup I got the message "cannot handle kernel paging request at address..."
with a dump of all sorts of registers and so on. Any ideas?
Please respond by email - our site doesn't hold articles for long and besides
this newsgroup is already exponential. I'll summarize and post suggestions
and highlight any that work.
Thanks in advance