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

[Marcel Kleinfeller]

Just do two or three passes that should be enough.
Am 01.02.2015 um 13:48 schrieb 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?
>