1.99.11 Kernel Oops

Alex Kiernan (alex@hisoft.co.uk)
Tue, 4 Jun 1996 10:24:43 +0100 (BST)


I just had 1.99.11 do this on me - Sendmail is 8.7.5 which we've not had
any problems with 'til now. The machine is an AMD DX4/100 w/16Mb on a
Gigabyte m/b w/ onboard IO, Hayes ESP serial card, additional
16550/printer port card, AHA1522, 3C509 & Trident PCI video.

Jun 4 10:07:22 mrburns kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000000
Jun 4 10:07:22 mrburns kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00319000, dr3 = 00319000
Jun 4 10:07:22 mrburns kernel: *pde = 00102067
Jun 4 10:07:22 mrburns kernel: *pte = 00000027
Jun 4 10:07:22 mrburns kernel: Oops: 0000
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: CPU: 0
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: EIP: 0010:[<00000000>]
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: EFLAGS: 00010006
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000202 ecx: 00168e10 edx: 001c92a4
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: esi: 001efcb0 edi: 00e63ebc ebp: 00000001 esp: 00e63ea0
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: Process sendmail (pid: 5110, process nr: 73, stackpage=00e63000)
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: Stack: 00168e37 00000000 0011c998 001c92a4 008dc000 00007c00 001efcb0 00f39018
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: 00e63ebc 00120321 001efcb0 008dc000 00007c00 00a61184 00f39018 00c30dd8
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: 00c30dd8 001efcb0 001c1e24 0000007c 00000246 00000293 00319080 00007c00
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: Call Trace: [unplug_device+39/48] [__wait_on_page+120/256] [rw_swap_page+449/800] [swap_in+123/256] [do_wp_page+18/688] [do_wp_page+351/688] [do_no_page+360/1040]
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: [do_page_fault+355/720] [do_page_fault+0/720] [error_code+75/96]
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: Code: 01 00 00 00 6f ef 00 f0 c3 e2 00 f0 6f ef 00 f0 6f ef 00 f0
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: wait_queue is bad (eip = 00126be1)
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: q = 001efcbc
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: *q = 00e63ebc
Jun 4 10:07:23 mrburns kernel: tmp = 00e63ebc

#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#

#
# Code maturity level options
#
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y

#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
# CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT is not set
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
# CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA is not set
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
# CONFIG_M386 is not set
CONFIG_M486=y
# CONFIG_M586 is not set
# CONFIG_M686 is not set

#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set

#
# Please see drivers/block/README.ide for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY is not set

#
# Additional Block Devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set

#
# Networking options
#
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y
CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y
# CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE is not set
CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
# CONFIG_IP_TRANSPARENT_PROXY is not set
CONFIG_IP_ALWAYS_DEFRAG=y
CONFIG_IP_ACCT=y
# CONFIG_IP_ROUTER is not set
# CONFIG_NET_IPIP is not set
CONFIG_IP_ALIAS=y

#
# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
#
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
# CONFIG_INET_RARP is not set
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
# CONFIG_SKB_LARGE is not set

#
#
#
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
CONFIG_ATALK=y
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_BRIDGE is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set

#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y

#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom)
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=y
# CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG is not set

#
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS is not set

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_DTC3280 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx=m
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_sync=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_FAST=y
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C7xx_DISCONNECT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_FAS is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC_ISP is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set

#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_DLCI is not set
# CONFIG_PLIP is not set
CONFIG_PPP=m

#
# CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
#
CONFIG_SLIP=m
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
# CONFIG_SLIP_SMART is not set
# CONFIG_SLIP_MODE_SLIP6 is not set
# CONFIG_NET_RADIO is not set
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
# CONFIG_EL1 is not set
# CONFIG_EL2 is not set
# CONFIG_ELPLUS is not set
# CONFIG_EL16 is not set
CONFIG_EL3=y
# CONFIG_VORTEX is not set
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
# CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set

#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
# CONFIG_LOCK_MANDATORY is not set
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
# CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_SMB_FS=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
# CONFIG_SYSV_FS is not set
CONFIG_AFFS_FS=m
CONFIG_AMIGA_PARTITION=y
# CONFIG_UFS_FS is not set

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
# CONFIG_RISCOM8 is not set
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
# CONFIG_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG is not set
# CONFIG_RTC is not set

#
# Sound
#
# CONFIG_SOUND is not set

#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PROFILE is not set

--
Alex Kiernan - alex@hisoft.co.uk
HiSoft Systems, The Old School, Greenfield, Bedford, MK45 5DE, UK
http://www.hisoft.co.uk Tel: +44 1525 718181 Fax: +44 1525 713716