Something(s) Wrong

[Rashkae]

Robert Stockdale IV wrote:
> Performed the memory test and there were no errors. The result of free is"
> 
> bob at java:~$ free
>                       total           used            free     shared
> buffers     cached
> Mem:       2059460    1837756      221704              0      40492
> 514572
> -/+ buffers/cache:     1282692      776768
> Swap:      6032368                0    6032368
> 
> I can't see any problems with the memory and can't see why dmesg would
> complain as it did. After rebooting, however, the error grep dmesg only had
> one error as follows:
> 
> bob at java:~$ sudo dmesg | grep error
> [  146.107557] powertweakd[7223]: segfault at 0000000000000006 rip
> 00002b498d401620 rsp 00007fff1de80488 error 4
> 
>

ookay, next I would try a badblocks test.  My first suspect would be 
hard drive on which the swap partition is located (although, I would 
have expected lots of IO errors in dmesg had that been the issue)