On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 15:46:24 +0100 Dieter Plaetinck <dieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > while testing new images, I get this: > http://users.edpnet.be/dieter/vbox-or-kernel-or-mkinitcpio-bug.png > > the error messages show up in google results and seem to be bugs in > the Linux swap code and/or drivers. > > interestingly, at first aif/dialog/mkinitcpio/find just keep running, > but after a while the processes just vanish. dmesg doesn't say > anything about OOM killer, but i get login prompts where i used to > have a terminal with aif/initcpio running. > > dmesg here: http://sprunge.us/YWQS > any advice? > i can probably workaround it by using more ram, but still... > > Dieter hmm the behaviour seems to be pretty random. i went from 256 to 421MB ram where the issue stayed the same. now i'm trying 580MB and the machine gives pagefault errors by just trying to launch /arch/setup, and doesn't respond to any key afterwards :/