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murfMan

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Registered: 2009-10-27

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kernel panic? keyboard lights flashing?

what does it mean when your screen is blank and the lights on your keyboard(numlock, scrolllock, capslock) are all flashing on and off?  and the only thing that you can do is turn off you're machine.

is this a kernel panic?  how can i make it not do this? (it's only happened twice in the span of a month or two)

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Re: kernel panic? keyboard lights flashing?

Yep, it's a genuine kernel panic. And after one you should look into your logs to see the culprit in order to find a solution.

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murfMan

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Registered: 2009-10-27

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Re: kernel panic? keyboard lights flashing?

which log file? and what am i looking for...

i found this in /var/log/everything.log

 79 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
 80 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: IP: [<c10c6cc0>] put_page+0x20/0x150
 81 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: *pde = 00000000
 82 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: Oops: 0000 [#2] PREEMPT SMP
 83 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.7/usb1/1-8/1-8:1.3/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sdb/capability
 84 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: Modules linked in: usblp usb_storage vboxdrv joydev xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables ext2 usbhid snd_seq_dummy sn    d_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_intel8x0 snd_seq hid snd_ac97_codec snd_seq_device fan ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss battery snd_timer ppde    v snd radeon ttm parport_pc uhci_hcd lp dcdbas button ac soundcore pcspkr iTCO_wdt ehci_hcd parport processor thermal tg3 drm libphy iTCO_vendor_support     sg agpgart i2c_algo_bit i2c_i801 i2c_core snd_page_alloc evdev usbcore rtc_cmos rtc_core rtc_lib ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 sr_mod cdrom sd_mod ahci ata_pii    x pata_acpi ata_generic libata floppy scsi_mod
 85 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel:
 86 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: Pid: 13604, comm: X Tainted: G      D    (2.6.31-ARCH #1) Dimension 8400
 87 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c10c6cc0>] EFLAGS: 00013246 CPU: 0
 88 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: EIP is at put_page+0x20/0x150
 89 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: EAX: 00000000 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000000 EDX: d49563ac
 90 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: ESI: d489fc00 EDI: 00000000 EBP: d489fc00 ESP: efa41d84
 91 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068
 92 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: Process X (pid: 13604, ti=efa40000 task=f7382d60 task.ti=efa40000)
 93 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: Stack:
 94 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: 58657904 00000001 d489fc00 00000000 d489fc00 c12623df 58657904 d489fc00
 95 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: <0> 000004c8 c1261daf 58657904 d4813e00 c12e4020 58657904 f65ae544 000004c8
 96 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: <0> 000004c8 efa41e7c efa41e5c eec33c00 d4813fb8 00000000 d4813e70 ffffffa1
 97 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: Call Trace:
 98 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c12623df>] ? skb_release_data+0x9f/0xd0
 99 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c1261daf>] ? __kfree_skb+0x1f/0xf0
100 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c12e4020>] ? unix_stream_recvmsg+0x1f0/0x550
101 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<f8415978>] ? drm_ioctl+0x1f8/0x320 [drm]
102 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c12593f8>] ? sock_aio_read+0x148/0x160
103 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c10f25dd>] ? do_sync_read+0xed/0x140
104 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c1062d40>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x60
105 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c116663b>] ? security_file_permission+0x1b/0x40
106 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c10f26a2>] ? rw_verify_area+0x72/0x100
107 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c10f36c9>] ? vfs_read+0x199/0x1b0
108 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c10f37ff>] ? sys_read+0x5f/0xb0
109 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: [<c1003cb3>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x28
110 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: Code: 00 00 00 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 83 ec 14 89 5c 24 04 89 c3 65 a1 14 00 00 00 89 04 24 31 c0 89 74 24 08 89 7c 24 0c 8    9 6c 24 10 <66> f7 03 00 c0 0f 85 f7 00 00 00 f0 ff 4b 04 0f 94 c0 84 c0 75
111 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: EIP: [<c10c6cc0>] put_page+0x20/0x150 SS:ESP 0068:efa41d84
112 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: CR2: 0000000000000000
113 Nov 22 17:27:28 arch kernel: ---[ end trace 6763a3626151d392 ]---
114 Nov 22 17:27:30 arch kernel: [drm:drm_mode_getfb] *ERROR* invalid framebuffer id
115 Nov 22 17:27:30 arch kernel: executing set pll
116 Nov 22 17:27:30 arch kernel: executing set crtc timing
117 Nov 22 17:27:30 arch kernel: [drm] TV-7: set mode 1280x1024 1a

what does it mean.

Last edited by murfMan (2009-11-23 20:23:30)