[arch-general] Fwd: Kernel panic - after upgrade

[Csányi Pál]

2015-02-01 13:42 GMT+01:00 Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com>:
> Op 1 feb. 2015 12:41 schreef "Csányi Pál" <csanyipal at gmail.com> het
> volgende:
>
>> 2015-01-31 23:12 GMT+01:00 Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com>:
>> > 2015-01-31 21:20 GMT+01:00 Christian Demsar <vixsomnis at fastmail.com>:
>> > [...]
>> >> At this point, I'd backup configuration files and home directories and
>> >> do a full reinstall. Sounds like there's something going terribly
>> >> wrong.
>> >> Hopefully that works...
>> >
>> > Hmm, I'd first check if dmesg shows SATA error (bus reset, seek
>> > failed, etc) and if that is not the case, I'd do a memory test
>> > (memtest86 is very nice for this).
>> > Seeing that the OP is getting kernel panics, my first guess is memory
>> > problems (I fail to see how a bad HDD would cause panics), but I might
>> > be wrong...
>>
>> The output of dmesg is here:
>> http://pastebin.com/9TnBGHqn
>>
>> I did not see any suspicious in it. Am I right?
>
> A couple of things i noticed:
> -Nvidea complaining about not having a textmode driver configured
> - ext4 mentions 14 errors on sda4
>
> I'm not sure if these are serious or not. Could you try the memtest first?
> Bad memory can cause very strange errors and is easy to test (takes time,
> though).

Before I start the memtest I ask an advice: how long should I run the memtest?

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Regards from Pal