RE: 2.4.23 is freezing my systems hard after 24-48 hours

["Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Jeremy Kusnetz wrote:

> > Please try the NMI oopser.
>
> Okay, the box just crashed.  It's acting differently then the
> previous crashes.  The previous crashed would lock up hard,
> no network, no output to screen, no sysrq.  I don't know if the
> NMI-watchdog is what's letting it get this far.
>
> This is the output to screen:
>
> BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: ../sysdeps/i386/dl-machine.h: 391:
> elf_machine_lazy_rel: Assertion `((reloc->r_info) & 0xff) == 7' failed!
>

PLEASE fix your mailer, the world uses '\n' after every 79 characters
or so, even though M$ invented the "screen-warp-around-technique".

The error is probably caused by the dynamic loader getting corrupt
or loaded incorrectly, either because of a disk error or because of
bad RAM. You probably see this immediately after init starts. It
is also possible for /etc/ld.so.cache to get corrupt and cause this.
To fix that, you could use `nash` or some statically-linked program
in place of init and then execute `ldconfig` after mv-ing /etc/ld.so.cache
out of the way.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.4.22 on an i686 machine (797.90 BogoMips).
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