bad page state?

[Harry Giles]

Ken Moffat wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
>   
>> On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Ken Moffat wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> I have occasionally seen this error, which pops up in an open xterm, and
>>> am worried about my motherboard, quite old, or memory. I have tested the
>>> memory which is okay. I am running Debian testing on an athlon, msi m/b,
>>> 5 years old with a 486 kernel, but saw the error on the k7 kernel also.
>>>
>>> Anyone have an idea?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:27 2007 ...
>>> drip23 kernel: Bad page state in process 'icedove-bin'
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:31 2007 ...
>>> drip23 kernel: page:b14961e0 flags:0x80000000 mapping:00000020
>>> mapcount:0 count:0
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:31 2007 ...
>>> drip23 kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
>>>
>>> Message from syslogd at drip23 at Sat Feb  3 07:39:31 2007 ...
>>> drip23 kernel: Backtrace:
>>>     
>>>       
>> Every time I've seen 'bad page state' errors in the past, its turned out 
>> to be bad RAM.  How exactly did you test your RAM?
>>
>>   
>>     
>
> ran  memtest86+.bin at bootup.
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>   

You might also want to remove it and reinstall it.  Connections can get 
crappy over the years, and will give you the same kind of results.  
Corrosion is not friendly to electricity!


Harry G