on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 11:37:42PM +0200, David Jardine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:20:58PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Tue, Apr 17, 2001 at 12:38:17AM +0200, David Jardine ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > Following a re-compilation of my kernel (2.0.36) pon is > > > behaving erratically, to say the least. After a reboot > > > it works quite often the first time, less often the > > > second, rarely the third... and once it's failed, it > > > always fails after that. > > > > > > When it fails, it spews out a couple of screenfuls of > > > something too fast to capture and then hangs - sometimes > > > ^C kills it, sometimes ^D, sometimes I have to reboot. > > > > > > The straces of failed and successful connections seem > > > identical (except for pids and times, of course). > > > > > > This is the syslog account (the same every time, I think): > > > > > > Apr 17 00:17:07 gennes kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer > > > dereference at virtual address c0000000 > > > Apr 17 00:17:07 gennes kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = > > > 00101000 > > > Apr 17 00:17:07 gennes kernel: *pde = 00102067 > > > Apr 17 00:17:07 gennes kernel: *pte = 00000000 > > > Apr 17 00:17:07 gennes kernel: Oops: 0000 > > > Apr 17 00:17:07 gennes kernel: CPU: 0 > > > Apr 17 00:17:07 gennes kerneld: error: exit: Identifier removed > > > > > > If anyone recognizes the symptoms, I'd be most grateful > > > for pointers in the direction of a solution. > > > > It's a bug ;-) > > Don't kid me. I can bring the stablest of systems crashing > round my ears by sheer stupidity.
Meet you and raise you ten. I'd gone through an extremely frustrating three months last spring with 2.2.14 in which sambafs and something else were rendering my system unstable -- crashes every 2-14 days, most indicated with "NULL pointer dereference". Turned out to be a known, but obscure, bug. > Anyway, I'm ashamed to say that I've decided to try potato again. > (Ashamed because of the trouble you took to help me, for which > many thanks.) No, no, no. I'm an arrogant, abuse ass heaping scorn on newbies, remember? > May I ask one more stupid question? I don't understand the exact > connection between kernel versions and distribution versions. There is none. Or at least no strong link. Most Debian distros are released against a set of kernel binaries which have been compiled for the distro. For 2.2 (Potato) this includes several flavors of 2.2, and possibly 2.0 and 2.4, kernels. > I tried to upgrade from slink to potato but found that the one thing I > really needed (jdk) had been replaced by something else (jikes and > kaffe) that I couldn't get working. Will I have problems if I try to > install the stuff from my slink CDs on my potato system? You should be able to backtrack packages so long as you don't get dependency conflicts. Don't have the dope on these particular packages though. I'd look into why these aren't working for you (kaffe, jikes). > Thanks -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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