On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> Not a backtrace?
I'm not a guru, but I'm guessing that if EIP is in lalaland, any call
trace will also be gibberish.
> An lsmod would probably show you a module currently in use, for no
> good reason, that's probably the chap who segfaulted.
Eh? lsmod doesnt show you that, does it? It'll show which modules
have references, but that could be a bunch.
> Otherwise a quick dmesg might point in the direction of oops.
Indeed, but call trace (the most useful bit) is stuffed. so..
> It occured to me to add after, I posted, if there's recently been a nic
> added, then there's a possibility of an IRQ conflict etc.
best thing for original poster to do is run memtest86 for a few
hours.
regards,
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