[ILUG] Unable to handle kernel paging request

[Paul Jakma]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Niall O Broin wrote:

> I just saw the above message (Unable to handle kernel paging request) in

an oops i take it? what it could be is a bug in a specific driver.
obviously whatever services that driver is offering are unreliable
now at best, but the rest of the machine can probably keep on going
if it's not a critical piece of the kernel.

what's the complete oops? and whats the output if you run the oops
through .../src/linux/scripts/ksymoops/? (or else you can look up the
symbols by hand in System.map).

if not an oops, then OOM could indeed be the problem. but i doubt the
machine could have got that far without being unusable. (userland
would have been hosed already).

could perhaps be something like a driver that wants memory accessible
to ISA (eg located < 16MB)..

what's the complete log message?

> /var/log/messages on a box running 2.2.12. I had a look around and people

regards,
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