Why did my Linux Mint system crash?

[Michael Butash]

I agree, hardware issue with mobo, or proc (since north bridge memory 
controllers are usually built in here now).  Seems more like a south 
bridge issue (where pci bus liives), but could be memory corrupting 
things as well.

Remove any external pci card you can, including usb devices.  I had a 
western digital drive housing cause some very weird kernel issues when 
plugged in even.

-mb


On 01/14/2014 11:59 AM, Matt Graham wrote:
> On 2014-01-14 11:26, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>> I finally rebooted again, and saw a screen full of messages including
>> "unable to handle kernel paging request"
>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/z1.jpg
>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/z2.jpg
>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/z3.jpg
>> http://www.upquick.com/temp/z4.jpg
>>
>> What in the world could the problem be and how can I resurrect my 
>> system?
>> (PS: I'm writing this message from my laptop. Tried to ssh login to the
>> failed system, but no joy.)
>
> An OOPS at 33 seconds and then another OOPS at 52 seconds, both in 
> kernel code that should be reasonably stable (network drivers followed 
> by nouveau)?  I am not certain, but I think there might be a hardware 
> problem somewhere in this machine.
>
> You can attempt to diagnose the problem by booting from a rescue 
> system.  If those things fail in a similar manner, it's almost 
> certainly a hardware problem.  (If the rescue system works fine, then 
> your Mint install is borked, but that seems sort of unlikely.)  Or if 
> a rescue system works fine except when you start up a GUI, it's a 
> problem with the graphics card.  Or if it works fine until you try to 
> start DHCP, it's a problem with the NIC. The other thing to check is 
> the case and airflow--make sure there aren't any dust bunnies blocking 
> the fans or anything.  If you suspect the RAM is the problem, the 
> memtest86 option on many rescue systems will probably say something if 
> you had bad RAM.
>
> The last 2 times I've had things like this happen to desktop systems, 
> it's been problems with the motherboard.  This is annoying because the 
> motherboard is expensive and a pain to replace.
>