> I have this funny feeling that my linux partition is starting to die...
> I am using v 2.1.26. I was just using ftp, and I got a message that
> looked exactly like this. (This is not the first of this type.)
>
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address cb3bc198
[...]
> eax: cb3bc198 ebx: c19f0303 ecx: 00000400 edx: 0000035c
[...]
> Code: 39 38 75 24 66 39 58 04 75 1e 39 68 20 74 22 56 e8 1f fa ff
Code: 00000000 <_EIP> cmpl %edi,(%eax)
Without any translated symbols, my only guess is that you have bad memory,
a bit got flipped in the address (c33bc198 -> cb3bc198), hence the oops.
You can try to run the oops through ksymoops, a program which you will
find in the scripts directory. You need to compile it with
gcc -o ksymoops ksymoops.cc -lg++
and then run something like
ksymoops System.map <oops
where System.map is the map of the oops-ing kernel and oops is a a file
containing the oops output.
Ionut
P.S. I looked all over the Documentation directory, and I couldn't find
anything about the usage of ksymoops, but only a few vague references to
it. Maybe we should include something in oops-tracing.txt..? Reading
ksymoops.cc to get details is fine for me, but not for everyone else.
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