Exact Cause for FC6 Frequent Crash

[dmode]

Hi,

First of all I am an avid user of fc3 to fc6, I even have a mail server running fc4 perfectly...

I have a prob concerning one of my fc6 box (fully updated)... it always crashes... i get tons of kernel errors from time to time and maybe the cause is my gfx card which is an nvidia tnt2 (i can't use compiz due to some harware limitations, this is ok)... i have installed the latest gfx (livna) drivers too...

I have moved from Gnome, to KDE to XFce 4, but same prob... I really have no clue...

Where should I start? This is the first time that this is happening to me... it crashes without any reason at all...

[dmode]

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1]

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: SMP

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: CPU: 0

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c04291cf>] Not tainted VLI

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: EFLAGS: 00210246 (2.6.20-1.2944.fc6 #1)

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: EIP is at __do_proc_dointvec+0x28b/0x2ad

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: eax: 00000001 ebx: 0a62f330 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00000003

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: esi: 0a6309f8 edi: 0045c8d4 ebp: 0a62f330 esp: c4c7cea0

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:49 2007 ...
db kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: Process yum (pid: 3577, ti=c4c7c000 task=d64e2e30 task.ti=c4c7c000)

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: Stack: c04380a9 00000000 00000001 d6cac94c 00000000 d6cac94c 00000000 00000001

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: c4c7cee4 c041c88d 00000000 00000000 00000001 00200282 d6cac80c 00200282

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: 00200282 00200202 0000000a c0618137 ffffffda c0433738 00200202 00200202

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: Call Trace:

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c04380a9>] do_futex+0x217/0xb7d

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c041c88d>] __wake_up+0x32/0x43

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0618137>] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0xd

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0433738>] remove_wait_queue+0x16/0x22

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c04c0a80>] file_has_perm+0x8c/0x94

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0403130>] __switch_to+0x182/0x18e

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0618125>] _spin_unlock_irq+0x5/0x7

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0616aab>] __sched_text_start+0x99b/0xa23

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0534dfd>] read_chan+0x0/0x543

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c041cc31>] task_running_tick+0x1ae/0x237

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0438b2d>] sys_futex+0x11e/0x131

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: [<c0403fe0>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: =======================

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: Code: e8 2f f9 0b 00 85 c0 75 37 0f b6 c2 f6 80 60 f4 6f c0 20 74 06 46 4d 85 ed 75 e3 83 7c 24 1c 00 b8 ea ff ff ff 75 1e 8b 54 24 60 <8b> 02 29 e8 89 02 8b 4c 24 64 31 d2 01 01 11 51 04 31 c0 eb 05

Message from syslogd@db at Thu Apr 26 13:09:50 2007 ...
db kernel: EIP: [<c04291cf>] __do_proc_dointvec+0x28b/0x2ad SS:ESP 0068:c4c7cea0

[dmode]

anyone... HELP

[jbannon]

Have you run a memtest?
Have you run an fsck?