fedora core 6 freezing !!

raven4d · 12-08-2006, 01:59 PM

hi ..

i've been using fc6 for about 2 weeks and i like it very much ,,didn't practice more stable linux !
but today i had something strang the system hang ! no way to enter text mode or anything !! /just like one of m$ windwos freezes

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after reseting i had this in my /var/log/messages
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: [<e0e7ce6b>] LinuxDriver_Ioctl+0x703/0x8fc [vmmon]
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: [<c047f224>] do_ioctl+0x4c/0x62
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: [<c047f484>] vfs_ioctl+0x24a/0x25c
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: [<c047f4e2>] sys_ioctl+0x4c/0x66
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: [<c0404013>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: DWARF2 unwinder stuck at syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: Leftover inexact backtrace:
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: =======================
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: Code: 24 30 8b 7c 24 24 8b 6c 24 28 88 44 24 0b 89 d8 25 ff 0f 00 00 8b 04 85 20 18 e9 e0 88 54 24 0a 89 07 c7 45 00 00 00 00 00 eb 55 <8b> 50 10 8b 40 14 e8 01 b2 ff ff 84 c0 75 13 89 1c 24 89 74 24
Dec 8 21:42:17 localhost kernel: EIP: [<e0e82a26>] Vmx86COWHintTableWalk+0x40/0xa3 [vmmon] SS:ESP 0068:c40c5d9c

any ideas will be appreciated

macemoneta · 12-08-2006, 02:58 PM

While you only provided part of the backtrace, it looks like the VMWare kernel driver failed. Have you applied the latest VMWare patches?

raven4d · 12-09-2006, 04:15 PM

am using vmware 5.5.3 build 34685 and no updates available when checking for updates .. shall i keep looking for patches ?

macemoneta · 12-09-2006, 05:12 PM

If you haven't applied any patches, the current one is vmware-any-any-update105.tar.gz at the link above. Follow these instructions:

Code:

wget http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update105.tar.gz
tar xzf vmware-any-any-update105.tar.gz
cd vmware-any-any-update105
./runme.pl

Allow the 'runme.pl' above to replace files and run the VMWare configuration.