From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.2a) Gecko/20020910 Description of problem: CPU: 0 Oops:0000 EIP: 0010:[<c01472db>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 EIP is at (2.4.18-14BOOT) eax: 00000000 ebx: fffffff8 ecx: 00000000 edx: c1b76000 esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 0000a9d0 esp: c1b77f94<F12> next screen ds: 0018 es:0018 ss:0018 Process kswapd (pid: 4, stackpage=c1b77000) Stack: c1b76000 00000283 eefce058 ee4451d8 000001d0 00001c22 00000002 0004e000 c01473e4 00010cbd c012f0d8 00000001 000001d0 c33d2f08 000001d0 000001d0 c1b76000 00000000 c012f247 000001d0 00010f00 c31d1fb8 c0105000 c0106fc6 Call Trace: [<c01473e4>] (0xc1b77fb4)) [<c012f0d8>] (0xc1b77fbc)) [<c012f247>] (0xc1b77fdc)) [<c0105000>] (0xc1b77fec)) [<c0106fc6>] (0xc1b77ff0)) [<c012f1e0>] (0xc1b77ff8)) Code: 8b 83 fc 00 00 00 a9 38 00 00 00 8b 76 04 75 08 0b 83 c0 00 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. install over HTTP, cdrom 2. workstation and custom install (didn't try the others) Actual Results: Random crashes with kswapd Additional info: 896 MB RAM Dual PII 400Mhz
can you try typing "linux mem=xxxM" (where xxx is the amount of memory you have minus 32, eg 864) at the very first screen?
I tried linux=864M and that got me past the kswapd failures. However I've experienced many other random failures. 1) received signal 11 2) error installing package x...This is a fatal error (different than bug 75377) 3) script abnormally exited I finally got it to install but then the system was extremely unstable. This was under smp and non-smp kernels. I tried installing 7.3 with same result. I'm now under the impression this is some sort of hardware failure.