I experience a spourious error on my openSuSE 10.3 Box.
After a reboot, the system hangs during booting with:
INIT: version 2.86 booting
sh[1145]: segfault at ffffffffffffff8b rip 00055555557de20 rsp 00007fffd3bde778 error 6
INIT: Entering runlevel: 3
Some more “sh[li]” lines (20+) are following with different adresses “rsp 00007fff*” and “error *”.
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Resets produced the same errors with presumably the same adresses. After I switched the box off for several minutes it came back on OK.
Any guesses where this might come from?
Memory? (Will run memory check this night…)
Temperature? (But the system runs OK for days…)
An update on the issue:
A night of memtest-runs produced not a single error, so it’s definitively not memory-related.
There are also two other lines of error-messages that appear:
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel
The first one is repeated some <10 times with “2”-“7” but not in increasing order, after the last line the system hangs. Only a hard power helps, but it runs into the same error unless the box is left off for approx. 10 minutes. After that, the system works normally without any noticable abnormalities until next reboot.
Did some searches, problem seems to be related to degrading hardware. Could it be the network card is breaking down? I remember having a faulty network card generating loads of segfaults.
Hmmm… which card would that be? I have two cards, one is a quite new 1GBit intel PCIe.
Which of the addresses ist the IO-adress, so I can lookup if it’s one of the two cards?