[CentOS] How to diagnose "Unable to handle kernel paging request" kernel panic?

Mon Apr 30 10:22:36 UTC 2007
Bob Chiodini <bob.chiodini at nasa.gov>


Jim King wrote:
>
> On Apr 28, 2007, at 8:16 AM, Steven Haigh wrote:
>
> On 28/04/2007, at 9:50 PM, Jim King wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know how to diagnose the error "Unable to handle kernel 
>> paging request at virtual address xxxxxx"?
>>
>> I got this error (followed by a panic and a crash) on a server 
>> running CentOS 4.4 with the 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp kernel.  The machine 
>> is based on an Intel 975XBX2 motherboard (975X chipset).  I have 
>> built several of these and they have been extremely stable.  This one 
>> is an Asterisk PBX.  It was up for over a month before this crash.
>>
>> Here is the exact kernel build info, from the restart log: "Linux 
>> version 2.6.9-42.0.8.ELsmp (mockbuild at builder6.centos.org) (gcc 
>> version 3.4.6 20060404 (Red Hat 3.4.6-3)) #1 SMP Tue Jan 30 12:33:47 
>> EST 2007"
>>
>> Does the call trace indicate something to do with the ext3 file 
>> system?  I am not running RAID on this machine, it is just a single 
>> drive with LVM.
>>
>> Any help that the list could be would be really great.
> <snip>
>
> Do you have a TDM400 card in these machines by chance? If so, are you 
> running Zaptel 1.4.2? I had this same crash happen using zaptel 1.4.2. 
> Updating to 1.4.2.1 fixed this.
>
> -- 
> Steven Haigh
>
> Email: netwiz at crc.id.au
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>
>
> There is a TDM2400P in the machine, but it is running the 1.2 branch.  
> It is running Zaptel 1.2.13.
>
Jim,

It might be a memory problem.  Try memtest86.  It's probably on the 
install disk.

Bob...