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#1 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:07 PM

Hi everybody,

I got a problem with my slackware 10 linux box.
I think this is an hardware problem but I'm not sure about it.
It's important to say that I already had this problem with another
distribution ( redhat 9 ).

Well, I start up my box, after some minutes (or hours) the system stops,
keyboard blinking, mouse and X are blocked but i know that system still
running in background because I can telnet or ftp from outside.
This happens with KDE, Gnome and also in console.
When happen in console I received an error like Unable to reference NULL
pointer memory or somthing like it, I cant log the whole error text because
it's all blocked.

This is my HW:

Mb: QDI kudoz 7 that use VIA Apollo KT266 chipset ( VT8366 and VT8233 ),
AGP, onboard audio AC97 ( but i use SB5 live )
ram 512
cpu: Athlon Xp 1600+
TNT2

I tried to install NVIDIA tnt2 driver but nothing is changed, so I switch
back to vesa frambuffer.
At the moment I'm running standard slackware bare.i kernel.
I tried bareacpi.i but the problem still the same.

Any helps?

thank you all,
ciao

#2 (**permalink**) 01-17-2008, 08:09 PM

Alberto wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> I got a problem with my slackware 10 linux box.
> I think this is an hardware problem but I'm not sure about it.
> It's important to say that I already had this problem with another
> distribution ( redhat 9 ).
>
> Well, I start up my box, after some minutes (or hours) the system stops,
> keyboard blinking,

Keyboard blinking means kernel panic.

> mouse and X are blocked but i know that system still
> running in background because I can telnet or ftp from outside.
> This happens with KDE, Gnome and also in console.
> When happen in console I received an error like Unable to reference NULL
> pointer memory or somthing like it, I cant log the whole error text
> because it's all blocked.

Sorry, I do not understand. You cannot write the error message down because
it is all blocked? The text appears as blocks? Is this a kernel oops
message you see?

> This is my HW:
>
> Mb: QDI kudoz 7 that use VIA Apollo KT266 chipset ( VT8366 and VT8233 ),
> AGP, onboard audio AC97 ( but i use SB5 live )
> ram 512
> cpu: Athlon Xp 1600+
> TNT2
>
> I tried to install NVIDIA tnt2 driver but nothing is changed, so I switch
> back to vesa frambuffer.

I'd get a stable system before you go tainting the kernel. Leave this for
now.

> At the moment I'm running standard slackware bare.i kernel.
> I tried bareacpi.i but the problem still the same.

Not surprising, to be honest!

>
> Any helps?
>
> thank you all,
> ciao

My initial reaction is that you have a hardware issue, most likely a bad
memory stick.

Run this:
http://www.memtest86.com/

and see.

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