Strange messages

[dan Murphy]

thanks.  I'll try that and see if it helps.
On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Ralph W. 
Reid wrote:

> Judging from that message, it looks like your system is running out of
> swap space, or perhaps your swap partition(s) or swap file(s) are
> corrupted.  You might try creating and using a large swap file--if
> that works, you were running out of swap space.  If you suspect that
> your swap partition(s) may have been corrupted, you can boot with the
> install CDROM or floppies and run 'setup' to re-set up your swap
> partitions (mainly, you will want to reformat them).
>
> HTH, and have a great day.
>
> On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 02:39:09AM -0500, dan Murphy wrote:
>> Hello.
>>    I have a question about certain messages I receive from time to
>> time.  Now and then, on any given console I will get a message saying "can
>> not handle kernel paging request."  then that dconsole is frozen untill I
>> reboot.  If I go to another console and log in as super user to try and
>> kill the process, that
>> console also freezes.  It's not something that I can reproduce regularly.
>> I am running Slackware 10.2 kernel 2.4.31.  It is one of the kernels from
>> the installation CD.
>> Any thoughts?
>> Thanks.
>
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