[mythtv-users] Kernel Panics

[Leen de Braal]

> MythTV was running just fine for me for a year.  Then, last December I
> shut it down as I was going out of town for a week.  When I started it
> back up it kept kernel panicing.  I kept rebooting and eventually it
> started working again.  But in the last month it keeps freezing up every
> other day.  I can't figure out what's causing the crashes.  Got the
> following kernel panic which I was able to capture because I was ssh'd
> into the box:
>
> [mythtv at toadette recordings]$
> Message from syslogd at toadette at Apr 19 08:43:25 ...
>  kernel: Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)
>
> Message from syslogd at toadette at Apr 19 08:43:25 ...
>  kernel:   page pfn = 392c4
>
> Message from syslogd at toadette at Apr 19 08:43:25 ...
>  kernel:   page->flags = 80010038
>

<<SNIP>>

>
> So suggestions would be really welcome!  Thanks!

In these cases I always run memtest86. Try that first for a few hours.

>
>


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