[wellylug] bad EIP value

[Rose McGillicuddy]

> Hmm.  This kind of register dump is usually a fairly serious sign.  I
> cannot imagine that you can use your machine without a hard reboot
> after you get this kind of message smearing on your screen.

It boots up fine.
>
> Usually this sort of thing will be caused by some sort of hardware
> failure, ie. one or another piece of your computer is not in working
> order under certain circumstances.  I'm struggling at the moment to
> think of a way that hardware will fail like this on a regular basis
> when you log out.  A bit more description might help.

My message gave a complete list of the error message I recieve.  I have a dual 
boot with Windows and it hasn't afected that.  I have done a google search 
and it seems it is not an unknown problem.  The problem for me is that I 
don't know what to do with the information I got about fixing it.  It was at  
www.carlug.org/pipermail/carlug-discuss/2002-Dec2002-December/000974.html
My search term was "Mandrake 9" + "bad EIP value"
>
> Since you posted this on a LUG newsgroup, I will assume you're running
> Linux.  If you can, at a console prompt, type
>
>   dmesg > init.txt

Didn't get anything when I typed that.  When it boots there is a message about 
"insmod" or something, but it goes too fast for me to catch it.
>
>
>
> and the last one at the bottom will be the newest file.  Since you
> won't be able to do that until you've started the PC up again, you
> will have to go through the last few logfiles to see which ones got
> stuff as you "logged out"

Last four files listed are user.log
auth.log
syslog
messages
with messages being the last one.
>
> Describing for me in excruciating detail what you're doing when you
> log out, may also help.
>
>I simply click on the "log out" button in the bottom of the screen.  It goes 
through a heap of stuff saying OK to it all and then gives me that message 
that I posted about bad EIP value.

Thanks for your response.
Rose


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