1.3.27 oops

Michael D. Bray (mike@skynet.oir.ucf.edu)
Mon, 18 Sep 1995 12:54:23 -0400 (EDT)

i can reproduce this one... as far as i know, it only started under 1.3.27,
but we upgraded from 1.3.24 so it could be anywhere in that range... the
problem occurs when I have a pine process running, and I try to start
another new one. The PINE program normally would try to gain access to my
mail file, but can't because of file lock. So it would say "trying to
get access to inbox from process xxxxx", and finally "another session is
accessing inbox, opening inbox read-only". However, under 1.3.27, it now
produces this gpf:

general protection: 0000
EIP: 0010:0012fb80
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: f000ff53 ebx: 018dedb0 ecx: 01607000 edx: 001c4568
esi: 00000000 edi: 01607000 ebp: bfffe434 esp: 00639f88
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process pine (pid: 4710, process nr: 30, stackpage=00639000)
Stack: 00124dd3 01607000 00000000 00109a48 0000000f 01607000 00124ef0 012a4000
00000042 000001b6 01ae9810 012a4000 0010aefd 0011fae0 00000042 000001b6
00109a48 0000000f bfffe434 ffffffda 0010002b 0010002b 0000002b
0000002b
Call Trace: 00124dd3 00109a48 00124ef0 0010aefd 0011fae0 00109a48 001c002b
Code: 39 48 30 75 0f f6 40 11 08 74 09 b8 e6 ff ff ff c3 90 90 90
Segmentation fault

>From System.map:
0012fb44 T _get_write_access

IN FACT, I was just using ncftp in another VT to try to access the kernel
changes archive on a sunsite mirror, and when I closed NCFTP, the same
general protection fault occured.

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