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Comment 28 for bug 7168

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Debian Bug Importer (debzilla) wrote :

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 08:52:37 -0700
From: Matt Zimmerman <email address hidden>
To: Javier =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fern=E1ndez-Sanguino_Pe=F1a?= <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>
Cc: Horms <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#255175: kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686: system crash due to kernel bug

On Thu, Jul 29, 2004 at 09:20:29AM +0200, Javier Fern�ez-Sanguino Pe�rote:

> > I am not sure that would really help.
> > Are you sure that it couldn't be a hardware problem.
>
> I don't see any hardware problems in the log before the kernel oopses. If
> there were, if there are hardware issues, then it's the kernel fault that
> nothing gets reported.

He's talking about the kind of hardware problems that cause the kernel to
crash (such as unreliable RAM). Unless you are using error-correcting
memory (and sometimes, even if you are), the kernel can't automatically
detect and report this condition.

> The one thing I'm surprised about is that the oopses vary somewhat in their
> messages:

This is symptomatic of a hardware-induced failure.

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 - mdz