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I've been running arch on an old headless box for over a year now, and have recently been getting kernel panics more and more frequently.
It never used to have any problems, but then starting in the last month it would occasionally lock up for no reason, usually when I wasn't even around. It has been getting worse and worse, now the box doesn't like to stay on for more than a few hours.
I came home from college for break and hooked up a monitor and keyboard, and finally started to see what the actual problem was.
I rebooted the box a few hours ago, and the only thing I've done with it since I turned it on was log in to the smb server and looked at one directory, then left it there.
Right now, I'm looking at a (ps/2) keyboard that has the caps lock and scroll lock lights flashing, and the screen has error codes all over it:
mostly do_page_fault, timer_interrupt, error_code+0x72/0x78, force_sig_into_fault, etc.
The last two lines are:
EIP: [<c01596fc>] handle_level_irq+0xac/0xf0 SS:ESP 0068:c180aa14
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
The box is used entirely for samba, apache, and remote ssh. I also did use it with x11vnc for a resumable X session (xfce4) and ran xchat and a dc++ client. It has an AthlonXP 1900+ cpu, 1.5GB RAM, 2 ATA100 HDs, some old 10/100 ethernet card, and I added a TNT2 gpu just for debugging.
Is this my hardware dying after 6 years, or something I can fix in software?
If hardware, does this give any indication of what component(s)?
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Try running memtest and also figure out what the temperature of your CPU is when it panics.
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The CPU runs at about 50 C all the time, and has been the same for the last year. It's not a well cooled box.
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Sounds like bad ram.
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cshake, the problem has been solved? it happened to me since upgrade to kernel 2.6.22 and higher(it never happened on ubuntu 7.04, but i've been getting it frequently on ubuntu 7.10 and archlinux ) same as what happened to you. my box has an Athlon XP cpu too.
I've tried to run memtest86+ a half day but no error be found, so I don't think it is a ram's funeral.
sorry i have not more knowledges of kernel, anyone has any solution? thanks.
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I fixed it by getting a new system, the windows boot on that box had also started to crash after being on for 1 minute, so I assume it was a bad physical component. No problems at all now and I'm running arch again on the new box.
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it is really a physical componet issue? do you know which component was dead of your computer? but i found some people have the same problem who using ubuntu and who have AMD cpu:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=480262
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It was happening more and more often, started at once a week then was down to once an hour, I'm pretty sure it's a component failing. The computer had been giving me trouble on and off for a while, so it's not surprising to me. It seems to me that it wouldn't happen in windows as well on the same computer if it was only a software or kernel issue.
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