[KLUG Members] RH 8 - GUI Problem

[Adam Williams]

>hard drive is not chattering.
>when I looked at logs:
>I found the following messages:
>localhost kernel: out of memory. killed process 11482 (gnome-terminal)
>localhost kernel: trying to vfree () non existent vm area

Yikes!  You really really really shouldn't see that message.

This is the kernel attempting to free memory that was never allocated. 
Think Chicken Little scurrying about shouting, "The sky is falling!"; or
the LAPD pumping out 40 rounds in a random trajectory.

You probably have (a) bad RAM or (b) a buggy kernl.

I'd make sure you have all the RH8.0 kernel updates applied,  although I
don't recall an RHBA about a problem like this.  And if you get a chance
run memtest86 overnight on the box where you saw this message.
http://www.memtest86.com/

>I found this in older log: warning : xinetd:  cant get client address: 
>transport endpoint is not connected.

That's OK, just a connection that got abended.  Happens on a busy
network all the time.