Hi everyone,
Occasionally, my computer locks up while booting, causing the lights on the keyboard to flash, and certain line commands appear on the screen such as:

Kernel panic - not syncing: fatal exception in interrupt
modprobe Tainted

and

bad area nosemaphore

I don't know if these are relevant to the error or not, I couldn't copy the whole string because the computer locked up and I had to force reboot.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
brian

I'd think about running a memory test on it. IIRC the antix splash screen has an option for that.

Let us know what you find out.

fratermus wrote:I'd think about running a memory test on it. IIRC the antix splash screen has an option for that.

Let us know what you find out.

I ran the test. No errors.

-But then it locked up twice before I could start-up correctly again. __{{emoticon}}__


brian

Hardrive may be on it's last legs also. You might want to run a Hardrive check with a


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Or it could be something inherent in M11?

My laptop also gives a kernel panic on boot perhaps 1 in 5 boots. No other distro does this and M11 has done this on two installs on this laptop. I have to hook the battery out to get it to shutdown.

chrishall57 wrote:Or it could be something inherent in M11?

My laptop also gives a kernel panic on boot perhaps 1 in 5 boots. No other distro does this and M11 has done this on two installs on this laptop. I have to hook the battery out to get it to shutdown.

My Dell laptop also does a kernel panic about 1 in 5 boots when using the stock Mepis kernel.
Upgrading to a Liquorix kernel stopped this from happening.

chrishall57 wrote:Or it could be something inherent in M11?

My laptop also gives a kernel panic on boot perhaps 1 in 5 boots. No other distro does this and M11 has done this on two installs on this laptop. I have to hook the battery out to get it to shutdown.

I have AntiX on 2 PCs now. My laptop (about 11 years old now..) doesn't have any problems. It's the newer PC that gives trouble... -Strange! Maybe it's a bug?

I'm convinced that Linux is about finding the best distro for every PC. All PCs seem to like different distros. Maybe it's because of the hardware variables among different brands?

brian

Just to finish the story with my OP: I ended up having to replace the computer, as the CPU went bad.

Now I'm on the look-out for old PCs to purchase really cheap and get them running like new on AntiX! Loving this distro! __{{emoticon}}__

Brian

ya know I was getting the exact same error as the op >50% of the time on a socket A 2ghz amd sempron. I started to go down that long road of why and what, but TBH I pulled this compaq out of the dumpster at my apartment complex and its mobo IS screwy.

Windows XP hates, no HATES it, debian"never" has an issue as I ran debian on it for 3 months as my main box when stuff blew up and I was saving up for multiple new parts over 2 machines (nasty storms last year). Mint will run fine for a long while, then at some point it will decide it hates the USB ports, and thats about it, the next day it will be fine, and a long while I am talking a month or so with that box being shut down every night.

So now I am sort of interested, what makes AntiX much more picky? It screams about USB port 7 or something and on good days it will boot <50% of the time with the same message as the first post in this thread ... its interesting

Maybe a kernel issue. You could try installing a Debian kernel.