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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3-12 i686) Description of problem: netscape and emacs suddenly failed with "unresolved sym XtBindAction" in libXt.so.6. rpm -V XFree86-libs shows ...5 ... error in libXt.so.6. Simulataneous kernel oops 0000 in logs. Reboot and everything OK ***including rpm -V XFree86-libs***. How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: Linux pogo.private.network 2.4.3-12 #1 Fri Jun 8 15:05:56 EDT 2001 i686 unknown vid=NVIDIA; mb=k7v-133; athlon 1.2GHz 256 MB RAM/512 swap. Oops file to be attached. Reboot msgs showed trouble unmounting /tmp (busy). Something got (mis)-cached involving libXt.so.6 and didn't get reset until reboot...Hardware? Cosmic ray?
Created attachment 23916 [details] ksymoops /var/log/messages
Are you using the NVidia provided propriatry kernel module ?
Yes. NVIDIA drivers , NVIDIA_kernel and _GLX are Version 1.0-1251 from rpms . Have had occasional X and kbd. lockups (have to reboot via alt-sysrq-s/u/b) but no oopses or kernel crashes. Correction to orig: MB=**A**7V133; Promise HD controller NOT connected (just using ata66)
I've seen several similar reports where the nvidia module has effects that really really point to corrupted memory. There's nothing we can do about that, unfortionatly.
OK, thanks, I'll go back to using XFree drivers. Maybe RH could politely express their displeasure to NVidia -- they have a rep. for not listening to consumers.
Trust me.. we tried ...
Created attachment 24227 [details] oops output
Still have stability problems *after* getting rid of NVIDIA drivers (I renamed the files and repointed the links to the XFree+Mesa stuff: lsmod (under X) no longer shows nv_driver, /usr/bin/gears runs unaccelerated (132fps), and xfree log shows only (NV). But: 1) system was locked up this AM; sysrq s/u/b. nothing in logs. 2) ran OK, then over lunch found a new oops. (attached) 3) what's going on? this really looks like kernel instability and there seem to be a lot of recent postings like this via dejanews search, all involving a7v-type MBs. My system is neither overclocked nor overheated (CPU=52 C). I think I'll try torture testing like kernel building...
I give up -- it's got to be hardware problems. Got a segfault in X and rpm -V filename itself segfaulted. After reboot rpm -V was OK. After next crash reboot showed fs corruption on every partition (bad/dup blocks ...). Maybe memory errors in the disk buffers. The box is going back and the next one won't contain any of the words athlon, VIA, NVIDIA or PogoLinux. Sorry to have wasted your time (again).