Oracle Linux 6.3 - restarts on shutdown

Hi All,
I installed Oracle Linux 6.3 on a standalone laptop. I updated it fully. Installed Oracle Database11gR2 and everything works perfect The OS reboots on shutdown command. There is no "wake up on LAN" or "Automatic Power Up". Checked BIOS - didn't find anything.
Didn't find any answer in google too.
Any help would be sincerely appreciated.
Regards

Hi Thilina,
Please confirm you have installed all the rpms mentioned as per the notes provided by Hussein. Please verify whether you have installed all the rpms mentioned in the per-requisite setup by command:
rpm -qa | grep <rpm_name>*
In addition, please upgrade your rapidwiz when installing especially on OEL 6 as most of the issues are addressed in the latest rapidwiz and perform a fresh installation.:
https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/new_rapid_install_startcd_12
Please also provide the output of:
find / -name libclntsh*   (as root user)
A workaround is mentioned in this site, Please check whether this helps you and let us know:
Installation of Oracle R12.1.1 on Linux 64 bit machine | Oracle Application Technology
Thanks &
Best Regards,

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    I will kindly ask for your honest opinions as I want to study for an Oracle Linux exam and I need to get the below indicated topics covered, but unfortunately I could not find a book to cover them all (as I did for Oracle 11g).
    Please help me locate a book, two or how many are necessary to help me study for the exam and cover the following topics:
    Thank you all!
    Installing Enterprise Linux
    Install Enterprise Linux on any supported architecture.
    Create partitions, software RAID and LVM storage configurations.
    Select Packages for Installation.
      PC Hardware & Linux
    Get detailed information about all PCI & USB devices that are connected to a Linux system
    Identify, load, unload and configure kernel modules
    Tune the running kernel using the /proc/ filesystem
      Post-Install System Configuration
    Set and maintain the system clock with date, hwclock and NTP
    Install, update and remove RPM packages with the rpm & yum commands
    Configure printers with CUPS
    Create and use Kickstart files for automated, hands-off installations
      Boot Process & SysV Init
    Configure the GRUB boot loader
    Manage SysV Init scripts, including customizing files under the /etc/sysconfig/ directory to tune SysV Init scripts
    Configure and use SysV runlevels
    Shutdown & reboot Linux systems
      User/Group Administration and NFS
    Describe and apply the User Private Group scheme
    Create, delete and configure user and system accounts
    Create, delete and configure groups
    Customize the PAM configuration
    Configure and control access to su and sudo
    Configure Linux systems to use centralized authentication and user information stores for system logins
    Implement a file server to share files with NFS v3 & v4
    Configure the automounter (autofs) allowing un-privileged users to mount filesystems on-demand
      Filesystem Administration
    Work with device nodes and udev
    Partition hard drives after installation
    Create and tune filesystems
    Mount filesystem, including persistent configuration in the /etc/fstab file
    Create, manage and tune swap devices
    Configure, manage, assign and maintain quotas on filesystems
    Create, use and remove File Access Control Lists (FACLs)
      LVM & Raid
    Configure Logical Volume Manager volume groups and logical volumes
    Create and use software RAID devices
    Grow and shrink logical volumes and the filesystems on them
    Use LVM snapshots to create consistent, reliable backups
      Task Automation & Process Accounting
    Use the at & batch facilities to run one-time tasks
    Manage cron jobs for recurring tasks, both system-wide and per-user
    Configure syslog for central system logging
    View, manage and kill running processes
    Monitor system and application logs on a daily basis with logwatch
    Configure process accounting and examine the resulting logs
    Limiting and measuring resource usage (ulimit, pam, sar, vmstat, iostat)
      Client Networking
    Configure TCP/IP networking on Linux systems
    Configure static routing on a Linux system
    Aggregate multiple network links into a single interface via the bonding driver's Etherchannel and 802.3ad support
    Configure a Linux system to participate in multiple VLANs on a managed switch via 802.1q frame tagging
    Configure and maintain a DHCP server
    Using networking diagnostics tool (ping,arp,ethtool)
    Enterprise Linux Fundamentals
    What is Linux?
    Identify the origins of UNIX and how Linux is related to UNIX
    Describe the major goals of the Free Software Foundation and the GNU project
    List key elements of a Linux distribution and name several distributions
    List several standards that apply to Linux
    Describe the basic mechanisms that make UNIX so powerful
      Multi User Concepts
    Describe the differences between the administrative (root) user and normal user accounts and explain when each should be used
    Log into the system
    Switch between accounts using the 'su' command
    Use basic commands to gather information about the system
    Use system help facilities to learn about commands and their options.
      The Linux File System
    List the standard system directories and explain what type of files are contained in each
    Navigate the file system
    Explain standard POSIX file permissions including special permissions such as the SUID, SGID and Sticky bits on both files and directories
    Change permissions of files
    Explain how file ownership (user: group) relates to file permissions
    Change ownership of files
    Describe how the User Private Group (UPG) scheme works and the problem it solves
      Manipulating Files
    Be able to create, delete, copy, move and rename files and directories
    Describe the various types of files that can be stored on UNIX and Linux file systems
    Explain hard links and symbolic links, their pros & cons and when & where they can or can not be used
    Identify the type of content of any file
    View the contents of both text-based and binary files
    Search the file system for files and directories with specific properties
      Text Processing
    Search inside of files for specified information
    Perform file editing, sorting, cutting & merging text files from the command linee
      Shell Basics
    Understand the varied roles the command shell plays in everyday UNIX/Linux usage
    Pipe several commands together to perform more complex and useful processing
    Use file redirection on the command line
    Create and use shell and environment variables to configure and control the operation of the system, the command shell and programs
    Use and escape special characters when they are used on the command line
      Regular Expressions
    Construct regular expressions for matching text patterns
    Archiving and Compression
    Use tar & cpio to create archives and extract files from them
    Compress and decompress files using the UNIX compress, GNU gzip, bzip2 and zip formats
      Text Editing
    Use simple text editors like pico and nano
    Perform basic and intermediate text editing functions efficiently with vi & Vim
    Perform basic and intermediate text editing functions with GNU Emacs
      Command Shells
    List the history and relationships of the various popular shell implementations available on UNIX and Linux systems
    Identify and switch between the various shell implementations
    Customize the command prompt on Bourne and BASH shells
    Use command line history, command completion, aliases and command line editing
    Customize command shell operation system wide and for individual users
      Introduction to Shell Scripting
    Process arguments passed into a shell script
    Get input from the user of a shell script
    Generate formatted output from a shell script
    Perform tasks conditionally using if, case and while loops in a shell script
    Perform repeated actions over a set of values with for loops on the command line and within shell scripts
    Do math in a shell script
      Process Management and Job Control
    Describe the differences between process and threads
    Find and control running programs with ps, top, kill, and nice
    Use the jobs, fg and bg commands to view and access several tasks at once on a single shell
    Use the screen command to run several programs and disconnect from running programs on remote systems
      Messaging
    Send local messages with the write and wall commands
    Use talk and ytalk to chat with other users
    Send and read email with the mail and pine commands
      The Secure Shell
    Configure the ssh client and sshd server programs securely
    Establish secure, remote connections to other systems
    Use SSH's key-based authentication
      Managing Software
    Find and download software via FTP & HTTP with text & graphical client programs like wget, lftp, links, Konqueror and Mozilla Firefox
    Install binary programs in RPM packages
    List software already installed on the system with RPM
    Compile and install software from source releases
    Compile and install software from a source RPM (SRPM or .src.rpm) package
      Printing
    Use CUPS to connect to available local and network printers
    Use various commands to process and convert files in preparation for printing
    Send jobs to a printer
    Monitor and remove print jobs
      Mounting FileSystems and Managing Removable Media
    Use the mount command
    Access NFS and SMB filesystems over the network
    Use autofs for on-demand mounting of filesystems without root privileges
      X Window System
    Start the graphical environment manually
    Select different desktop environments
    Launch graphical applications
    Use Linux as an X terminal
    Customize the graphical environment and auto-start applications at login and X startup
    Securely tunnel remote graphical applications through SSH
    How about posting this question in the Certification Forum
    Since Oracle Linux is based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you can use and search "RHEL books". There should some.

  • Oracle Linux 6.1 guest fails to boot on VM 3.0.2

    Hi,
    I've been using the templates to create vm guests successfully, so time to push the boundary again!
    I've created a Linux 6.1 PVM guest and, after a little trial and error to get the install boot working, I managed to run through the Linux install process. I then changed the boot in VM Manger to remove the Network boot option and restarted the VM guest and it failed to start. I checked the ovs-agent.log on the server and it has this error message.
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    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /xen.gz dom0_mem=544M
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    module /initrd-2.6.32.21-38xen.img
    title Oracle VM Server-ovs serial console (xen-4.0.0 2.6.32.21-38ovs)
    root (hd0,0)
    kernel /xen.gz console=com1,vga com1=57600,8n1 dom0_mem=544M
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    Thanks

    Mark C wrote:
    I've created a Linux 6.1 PVM guest and, after a little trial and error to get the install boot working, I managed to run through the Linux install process. I then changed the boot in VM Manger to remove the Network boot option and restarted the VM guest and it failed to start. I checked the ovs-agent.log on the server and it has this error message.That's the grub.conf from your Oracle VM Server, not from your guest. If it's from your guest, you installed Oracle VM, not Oracle Linux 6.

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    Dear All,
    We got "localhost kernel: BUG: Bad page state in process swapper  pfn:5e13c2e" when booting Oracle Linux 5.9.
    The system is installed with -
    1. CPU: 2 x Xeon E5-2690
    2. Mem: 384 GB
    3. QLE 2562 FC
    4. Oracle Linux 5.9 (64-bit) (2.6.39-300.26.1.el5uek)
    5. mutlipath enabled
    6. kernel created with (mkinitrd -v -f --with=sd-mod with=dm-multipath /boot/initrd-2.6.39-300.06.1.el5uek.img $(uname -r))
    Below is part of the log file.
    Did you have the idea what cause the issue?
    Regards,
    CL
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpuset
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel: Initializing cgroup subsys cpu
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel: Linux version 2.6.39-300.26.1.el5uek ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-52)) #1 SMP Thu Jan 3 18:31:38 PST 2013
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel: Command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/lun_osp3 rhgb  quiet numa=off
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel: BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009a400 (usable)
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000000009a400 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000007df4c000 (usable)
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000007df4c000 - 000000007df89000 (reserved)
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000007df89000 - 000000007e01c000 (ACPI data)
    Nov  1 11:03:04 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000007e01c000 - 000000007e240000 (ACPI NVS)
    Nov  1 11:03:05 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000007e240000 - 000000007f34c000 (reserved)
    Nov  1 11:03:05 localhost cpuspeed: Enabling ondemand cpu frequency scaling governor
    Nov  1 11:03:05 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 000000007f34c000 - 000000007f800000 (ACPI NVS)
    Nov  1 11:03:05 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000080000000 - 0000000090000000 (reserved)
    Nov  1 11:03:05 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed40000 (reserved)
    Nov  1 11:03:05 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
    Nov  1 11:03:05 localhost kernel:  BIOS-e820: 0000000100000000 - 0000006080000000 (usable)
    Nov  1 11:03:06 localhost kernel: NX (Execute Disable) protection: active
    Nov  1 11:03:06 localhost kernel: SMBIOS 2.7 present.
    Nov  1 11:03:06 localhost rpc.statd[5742]: Version 1.0.9 Starting
    Nov  1 11:03:06 localhost kernel: No AGP bridge found
    Nov  1 11:03:06 localhost kernel: last_pfn = 0x6080000 max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost hcid[5810]: Bluetooth HCI daemon
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost hcid[5810]: Register path:/org/bluez fallback:1
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost sdpd[5814]: Bluetooth SDP daemon
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: x86 PAT enabled: cpu 0, old 0x7040600070406, new 0x7010600070106
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: total RAM covered: 393216M
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: Found optimal setting for mtrr clean up
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel:  gran_size: 64K chunk_size: 64K num_reg: 9   lose cover RAM: 0G
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: last_pfn = 0x7df4c max_arch_pfn = 0x400000000
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost pcscd: pcscdaemon.c:507:main() pcsc-lite 1.4.4 daemon ready.
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: found SMP MP-table at [ffff8800000fdb60] fdb60
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: Using GB pages for direct mapping
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: init_memory_mapping: 0000000000000000-000000007df4c000
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: init_memory_mapping: 0000000100000000-0000006080000000
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost pcscd: hotplug_libusb.c:402:HPEstablishUSBNotifications() Driver ifd-egate.bundle does not support IFD_GENERATE_HOTPLUG. Using active polling instead.
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost pcscd: hotplug_libusb.c:411:HPEstablishUSBNotifications() Polling forced every 1 second(s)
    Nov  1 11:03:07 localhost kernel: RAMDISK: 3795a000 - 37ff0000
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: RSDP 00000000000f0490 00024 (v02 ACRSYS)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: XSDT 000000007dfa6090 0009C (v01 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000001 AMI  00010013)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: FACP 000000007dfafb10 000F4 (v04 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000001 AMI  00010013)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: DSDT 000000007dfa61b8 09956 (v02 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000000 INTL 20091112)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: FACS 000000007e23df80 00040
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: APIC 000000007dfafc08 00224 (v03 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000001 AMI  00010013)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: FPDT 000000007dfafe30 00044 (v01 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000001 AMI  00010013)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: SRAT 000000007dfafe78 004B0 (v01 A M I  AMI SRAT 00000001 AMI. 00000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: SLIT 000000007dfb0328 00030 (v01 A M I  AMI SLIT 00000000 AMI. 00000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: HPET 000000007dfb0358 00038 (v01 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000001 AMI. 00000005)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: PRAD 000000007dfb0390 000BE (v02 PRADID  PRADTID 00000001 MSFT 04000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: SPMI 000000007dfb0450 00040 (v05 A M I   OEMSPMI 00000000 AMI. 00000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: SSDT 000000007dfb0490 6B344 (v02  INTEL    CpuPm 00004000 INTL 20091112)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: EINJ 000000007e01b7d8 00130 (v01    AMI AMI EINJ 00000000      00000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: ERST 000000007e01b908 00230 (v01  AMIER AMI ERST 00000000      00000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: HEST 000000007e01bb38 000A8 (v01    AMI AMI HEST 00000000      00000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: BERT 000000007e01bbe0 00030 (v01    AMI AMI BERT 00000000      00000000)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: DMAR 000000007e01bc10 00178 (v01 A M I   OEMDMAR 00000001 INTL 00000001)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: ACPI: MCFG 000000007e01bd88 0003C (v01 ACRSYS ACRPRDCT 00000001 MSFT 00000097)
    Nov  1 11:03:08 localhost kernel: NUMA turned off
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel: Faking a node at 0000000000000000-0000006080000000
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel: Initmem setup node 0 0000000000000000-0000006080000000
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel:   NODE_DATA [000000607ffd9000 - 000000607fffffff]
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel: Zone PFN ranges:
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel:   DMA      0x00000010 -> 0x00001000
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel:   DMA32    0x00001000 -> 0x00100000
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel:   Normal   0x00100000 -> 0x06080000
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel: Movable zone start PFN for each node
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel: early_node_map[3] active PFN ranges
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel:     0: 0x00000010 -> 0x0000009a
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel:     0: 0x00000100 -> 0x0007df4c
    Nov  1 11:03:09 localhost kernel:     0: 0x00100000 -> 0x06080000
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x04] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x06] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x08] lapic_id[0x08] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0a] lapic_id[0x0a] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0c] lapic_id[0x0c] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0e] lapic_id[0x0e] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x10] lapic_id[0x20] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x12] lapic_id[0x22] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x14] lapic_id[0x24] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x16] lapic_id[0x26] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:10 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x18] lapic_id[0x28] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:11 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x1a] lapic_id[0x2a] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:11 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x1c] lapic_id[0x2c] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:11 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x1e] lapic_id[0x2e] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:11 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:11 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:11 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x05] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:12 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x07] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:12 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x09] lapic_id[0x09] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:12 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0b] lapic_id[0x0b] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:12 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0d] lapic_id[0x0d] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:12 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x0f] lapic_id[0x0f] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:12 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x11] lapic_id[0x21] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x13] lapic_id[0x23] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x15] lapic_id[0x25] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x17] lapic_id[0x27] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x19] lapic_id[0x29] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x1b] lapic_id[0x2b] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x1d] lapic_id[0x2d] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x1f] lapic_id[0x2f] enabled)
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x04] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x06] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x08] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0a] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0c] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0e] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x10] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:13 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x12] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x14] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x16] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x18] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x1a] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x1c] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x1e] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x03] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x05] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x07] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x09] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0b] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0d] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x0f] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x11] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x13] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x15] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x17] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:14 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x19] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x1b] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x1d] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x1f] high edge lint[0x1])
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost hidd[5960]: Bluetooth HID daemon
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x00] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 0, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec01000] gsi_base[24])
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec01000, GSI 24-47
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x03] address[0xfec40000] gsi_base[48])
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 3, version 32, address 0xfec40000, GSI 48-71
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: ACPI: HPET id: 0x8086a701 base: 0xfed00000
    Nov  1 11:03:15 localhost kernel: SMP: Allowing 32 CPUs, 0 hotplug CPUs
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009a000 - 000000000009b000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000000009b000 - 00000000000a0000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000e0000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000007df4c000 - 000000007df89000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000007df89000 - 000000007e01c000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000007e01c000 - 000000007e240000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000007e240000 - 000000007f34c000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000007f34c000 - 000000007f800000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 000000007f800000 - 0000000080000000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000080000000 - 0000000090000000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 0000000090000000 - 00000000fed1c000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fed1c000 - 00000000fed40000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000fed40000 - 00000000ff000000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: PM: Registered nosave memory: 00000000ff000000 - 0000000100000000
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost automount[5994]: lookup_read_master: lookup(nisplus): couldn't locate nis+ table auto.master
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: Allocating PCI resources starting at 90000000 (gap: 90000000:6ed1c000)
    Nov  1 11:03:16 localhost kernel: Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: setup_percpu: NR_CPUS:4096 nr_cpumask_bits:32 nr_cpu_ids:32 nr_node_ids:1
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: PERCPU: Embedded 26 pages/cpu @ffff88607f200000 s77440 r8192 d20864 u131072
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on.  Total pages: 99271377
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: Policy zone: Normal
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: Kernel command line: ro root=/dev/mapper/lun_osp3 rhgb  quiet numa=off
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: xsave/xrstor: enabled xstate_bv 0x7, cntxt size 0x340
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: Checking aperture...
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: No AGP bridge found
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: Queued invalidation will be enabled to support x2apic and Intr-remapping.
    Nov  1 11:03:17 localhost kernel: BUG: Bad page state in process swapper  pfn:5e13c2e
    Nov  1 11:03:18 localhost kernel: page:ffffea0149452a10 count:0 mapcount:0 mapping:          (null) index:0x0
    Nov  1 11:03:18 localhost kernel: page flags: 0x20000000000080(slab)
    Nov  1 11:03:18 localhost kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper Not tainted 2.6.39-300.26.1.el5uek #1
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel: Call Trace:
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff811147dd>] bad_page+0x9d/0x120
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost gpm[6080]: *** info [startup.c(95)]:
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff81114923>] free_pages_prepare+0xc3/0x100
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost gpm[6080]: Started gpm successfully. Entered daemon mode.
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff81118a82>] __free_pages_ok+0x32/0xf0
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff81118b60>] __free_pages+0x20/0x30
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff815045b6>] __free_pages_bootmem+0x66/0x90
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819f13c1>] __free_pages_memory+0x101/0x170
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819f1487>] free_all_memory_core_early+0x57/0x70
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff81514605>] ? bad_to_user+0x76f/0x76f
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost avahi-daemon[6171]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 70) and group 'avahi' (GID 70).
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819e41a7>] numa_free_all_bootmem+0x87/0xa0
    Nov  1 11:03:19 localhost avahi-daemon[6171]: Successfully dropped root privileges.
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819e227b>] mem_init+0x3b/0x110
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost avahi-daemon[6171]: avahi-daemon 0.6.16 starting up.
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819c4140>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x140/0x140
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost avahi-daemon[6171]: WARNING: No NSS support for mDNS detected, consider installing nss-mdns!
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819c4140>] ? early_idt_handlers+0x140/0x140
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819c4779>] mm_init+0x9/0x20
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost avahi-daemon[6171]: Successfully called chroot().
    Nov  1 11:03:20 localhost kernel:  [<ffffffff819c4ec5>] start_kernel+0x145/0x390

    It could be a hardware issue. I suggest to run Memtest. You can download a free stand-alone disk image, which you can burn to CD from here:
    http://www.memtest86.com/download.htm
    Then burn the iso disk image and restart the computer from the appropriate media. Be sure to follow the instructions of your CD/DVD software to properly burn .ISO images. There is plenty of info on the web.

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    yum -y install kernel-devel is all up to date
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    ========================================================
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    Virtual Printing daemon: [  OK  ]
    Unmounting HGFS shares: [  OK  ]
    Guest filesystem driver: [  OK  ]
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    installer or package and will not be modified by this installer. Use the flag
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    MODULEBUILDDIR= modules
    make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/kernels/2.6.39-200.24.1.el6uek.x86_64'
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    /tmp/vmware-root/modules/vmxnet-only/vmxnet.c:2927: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type
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    --the VMware 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