On Fri, 2004-07-09 at 22:02, Saravana Kumar wrote: > hi list, > > I am using RedHat 9 (2.4.20-8) in my HP Proliant ML150 (Intel 7501, Xeon 2.4 > G,512 MB RAM) machine. > > I am struggled hard to install. The installation went wrong many times. I > don'd know why? I am installing from the NFS server. Then atlast everything > worked. I finished installing(With RAID1). After doing all my > configs(qmail, apache,php, nfs etc), all of a sudden the system hang. > capslock and scroll lock LEDs start blinking. Couldn't do anything and > switched off the syste. After i restart it went into maintenance mode. All > the partitions were corrupted. I couldn't retrive any of the information. > > Then i reinstalled the system without RAID. Again, same problem. but this > time the system could recover the partitions and started. When i checked > the logs i saw this: > > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: VM: killing process kdeinit > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 409ee800 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 40a1f600 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202020 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 last message repeated 2 times > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 35343432 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 36303030 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202020 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202020 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 39393730 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202030 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20314120 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202020 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 31393420 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 40fe5160 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 409ee800 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap offset entry 40a1f600 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202020 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 last message repeated 2 times > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 35343432 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 36303030 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202020 > Jul 9 22:48:16 proliant1 kernel: swap_free: Bad swap file entry 20202020 > > Googled and found nothing. where should i search for help. > > Any help, regarding this. > thanks, > ---- I would try the memtest - I know it's offered as part of install when booted from CD - can't you boot from CD? Is the CD drive SCSI and you can't figure out how to boot from it? If so, check with HP documentation. RAID or not, shouldn't make a difference. Craig -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
