<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 2 February 2010 01:26, steve <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:networks1@cox.net">networks1@cox.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">>Better to look at the vmcore using crash rather than using gdb directly,<br>
btw.<br>
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</div>OK I got it working,and right you are. The whole thing is too big to post.<br>
But the important part seems to be:<br>
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NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000304 D 00000001 intr 00400000<br>
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000858 D 00000000 intr 04c00000<br>
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000858 D 00000000 intr 00400000<br>
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000858 D 00000000 intr 00c00000<br>
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000858 D 00000000 intr 00400000<br>
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000858 D 00000000 intr 00c00000<br>
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000858 D 00000000 intr 00400000<br>
NVRM: Xid (0001:00): 26, Ch 00000003 M 00000858 D 00000000 intr 00c00000<br>
BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffffc9000a180000<br>
IP: [<ffffffffa054e643>] os_mem_set+0x11/0x18 [nvidia]<br>
PGD 12fc07067 PUD 12fc18067 PMD 12a4f2067 PTE 0<br>
Thread overran stack, or stack corrupted<br>
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP<br>
last sysfs file: /sys/kernel/kexec_crash_loaded<br>
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Indicating that it is some kind of nvidia problem. Any idea if this<br>
indicates a hardware fault vs. a driver problem?<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>If it always crashes at the same address/function then it's likely a software issue, if the crash is more random, then hardware is more likely at fault.<br>
<br>If you can reproduce it with the same file and you get the same result time after time that's almost 100% software.<br><br>Ian<br><br></div></div>