today's 8.1/i386: panic: bad pte

Alan Cox alc at cs.rice.edu
Tue Jul 20 17:40:17 UTC 2010


Mikhail T. wrote:
> 20.07.2010 12:47, Alan Cox написав(ла):
>> Historically, this panic has indicated flakey memory.  This panic 
>> occurs because a memory location within a page table has unexpectedly 
>> changed to zero.
> Ouch... Thanks for the hint (maybe, the panic should say something 
> like that?)
>
> In any case, is there a way to identify the the flakey DIMM? I did run 
> memtest on this box and haven't received any errors... Thanks! Yours,

No, not from the panic message.  If a thorough memtest didn't turn up a 
problem, then I would start looking for another cause.

Alan



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