Kernel Panic!!!

[lfever]

OK, still getting kernel panics! 
I've done a Start up from LiveCD and did a filecheck/repair (fsck) on my HDD's and all is well from that.

I'm going to order a new PSU today as I want to put in a higher capacity anyway as present PSU is 400
watt (not much more than minimal requirement for my system) and it is several years old running 24/7.

Keeping my fingers crossed that this will solve the problem 

lfever

[zorlac]

Maybe some windoze freeware to load the system would show something?

[GermanTux]

After the install is complete to your hard drive, boot again into the LiveCD.  Then see if the following files is on your hard drive:

"/boot/initrd.img....."

I recall back in the PCLOS 2008 minimi days that there as an issue of the drake-installer not generating the initrd files to boot into, causing a kernel panic.  Old-Polack actually created some homeade ones as a workaround. 

BUT...the "bad RIP value" does seem to be video related.  What exact model of NVidia card do you have?  Including the manufacturer.  Asus? MSI? 

[lfever]

After the install is complete to your hard drive, boot again into the LiveCD.  Then see if the following files is on your hard drive:

"/boot/initrd.img....."

I recall back in the PCLOS 2008 minimi days that there as an issue of the drake-installer not generating the initrd files to boot into, causing a kernel panic.  Old-Polack actually created some homeade ones as a workaround. 

BUT...the "bad RIP value" does seem to be video related.  What exact model of NVidia card do you have?  Including the manufacturer.  Asus? MSI? 

Hi GermanTux

Graphics card:EVGA  e-GeForce 7600 GT

https://www.dropbox.com/s/lu71lwy40w3s65f/crash_pclinuxos_kde.jpg

However the output that was generated  in the photo above is no longer the issue as I now have the proper drivers installed. Now the system just freezes sometimes with blinking Caps and Scroll Lock lights and sometimes just freezes with no blinking lights. Can't ssh into system and can't find any logs generated.

lfever

[GermanTux]

The whole blinking light thing on the keyboard is definitely another form of a kernel panic.  Was the initrd.img file present? 

Do you have a separate video card around to try out?  I would be curious. 

[lfever]

The whole blinking light thing on the keyboard is definitely another form of a kernel panic.  Was the initrd.img file present? 

Do you have a separate video card around to try out?  I would be curious. 

As stated earlier in post, I tried another Graphics card (same make and model) from a properly working Linux Box.
Still had the kernel panic.

Most of the time the panic does not happen until after the system has booted and been running for a lengthy time.
Would the system boot and run for several hours if the initrd.img file were missing? However I will check to see if it is present.

Thanks
lfever

[lfever]

After the install is complete to your hard drive, boot again into the LiveCD.  Then see if the following files is on your hard drive:

"/boot/initrd.img....."

/boot/initrd.img file is present.

Maybe some windoze freeware to load the system would show something?

I'll check into that and see if I can make smoke 

[jberkpc]

I have the same graphics card;EVGA  e-GeForce 7600 GT, only it is the GS model instead of the GT. I bought it new for very little money and it's now in an old P-III machine.
That PC, doesn't have PCLinuxOS on it, but and older version of Mandriva. The reason it doesn't have PCLinux on it, is that when I tried to install PCLinux on the old machine, I had nothing but problems with the video card. I'm not saying, it's a problem with PCLinux, I'm saying that that particular video card seems to have a lot of problems. Nothing wrong with EVGA or NVIDIA, but that particular card is one of those hardware busts that happen from time to time. I have and EVGA 480 GTX and an EVGA 680GTX and they are both really good cards. And I don't fully understand the kernel panic, but it looks to be interrupt problem. Sometimes bad hardware, just gets produced and again, I could get the card working for a bit in PCLinux and then have a bunch of similar problems. That PC (mine) is just and old work machine and has old OS's it, but the video card never worked well in any OS. Consider a new card or at least try one of a different make or  model and I think your problem might go away.
Just a guess.

[lfever]

Finally, I believe my problem of the kernel panics is solved!!! 

Jumping on the Windoze side of my dual boot and doing some stress tests I was unable to cause any system freezing or BSOD

I replaced the PSU as I had planned to do just because the original was barely capable of my system requirements and had been running the past 3 years pretty much 24/7.

Back on the PCLinuxOS side I went.
The system ran all night and into the next day, I thought my problems were over, NOPE!! 

My HDD's had passed the fsck check, so to eliminate the HDD's altogether I disconnected them and booted from the Live USB I had created on a laptop. This Live USB is also what I had installed PCLinuxOS64 from in the first place. Well a few hours later, kernel panic!!

So I downloaded  pclinuxos64-kde-RC1.iso again and did md5 check. Burned to DVD-R and booted up. Ran for several hours with no problems.

I reinstalled PCLinucOS64 from the DVD, formatting the home and root partitions during installation.
Did the system update.

It's been close to two days and so far all is well. I'll give it a couple more days and if no more kernel panics I'll mark it “Case Closed”    Solved 

lfever