Hello, I use the package net-acct on one of our debian-machines. Works ok if it runs, but nacctd sometimes dies, and I get the following messages in kern.log:
Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000040 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00ef4000, ^_r3 = 00ef4000 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: *pde = 00102067 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: *pte = 00000027 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Oops: 0000 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: CPU: 0 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: EIP: 0010:[packet_recvmsg+237/320] Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00dab1e8 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: esi: 00afcdf4 edi: 0000007f ebp: 00c21ed8 esp: 00c21e60 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Process nacctd (pid: 27226, process nr: 36, stackpage=00c21000) Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Stack: 00afcc0c 00c21ed8 00000000 00000000 00c21ee4 0000007f 007a4ccc 00150f86 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: 00afcc0c 00c21f64 0000007f 00000000 00000000 00c21ed8 0000007f 007a4ccc Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: 0076dc40 00c21ee4 00137a77 007a4d58 00c21f64 0000007f 00000000 00000000 Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Call Trace: [inet_recvmsg+118/144] [sys_recvfrom+327/400] [net_bh+240/288] [timer_bh+193/864] [sys_sigreturn+423/464] [sys_socketcall+643/848] [system_call+85/128] Oct 22 11:30:12 iem01 kernel: Code: 66 8b 52 40 8b 7c 24 10 66 89 17 8b 53 20 8b 6c 24 10 83 c5 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: general protection: 0000 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: CPU: 0 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: EIP: 0010:[memcpy_toiovec+82/144] Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010213 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: eax: 0000007f ebx: 0000007f ecx: 0000001f edx: bffff5a0 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: esi: 53f000ff edi: bffff5a0 ebp: 00d54edc esp: 00d54e30 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 002b fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Process nacctd (pid: 7220, process nr: 34, stackpage=00d54000) Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Stack: 00760018 00000001 0000007f 0000007f 00d54ed8 0000007f 0014014b 00d54edc Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: 53f000ff 0000007f 0000007f 6ff000ef 00a78018 00d54ed8 00000000 00000000 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: 00d54ee4 0000007f 00de31f8 00150f86 00a78018 00d54f64 0000007f 00000000 Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Call Trace: [packet_recvmsg+203/320] [inet_recvmsg+118/144] [sys_recvfrom+327/400] [ultra_block_input+158/192] [ei_receive+562/720] [sys_sigreturn+423/464] [sys_socketcall+643/848] Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: [system_call+85/128] Oct 25 22:36:47 iem01 kernel: Code: f3 a5 83 e3 03 89 d9 f3 a4 07 8b 5c 24 10 01 5c 24 1c 29 5c No clue what this means. Is there anybody out on the list who is willing to explain these messages?? Thanks in advance Rolf Obrecht Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen RWTH Aachen Schinkelstrasse 4 D-52056 Aachen Tel. +49 241 807646 Fax +49 241 8888270 PGP public key available. "Wer Butter vom Amt will, muss Milch auf den Dienstweg schicken." -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .