Re: Oops in 2.1.28... (while stress testing :-)

Pierfrancesco Caci (ik5pvx@penny.ik5pvx.ampr.org)
Tue, 11 Mar 1997 07:49:11 +0100 (CET)

Bryn Paul Arnold Jones' own words:
:->
:-> On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
:->
:-> > On Mon, 10 Mar 1997, Patrick Schaaf wrote:
:-> >=20
:-> > > > I tried it on /proc and got more Oopses (in proc_lookupfd) than
:-> > > The oops is easily reproduced by 'cat /proc/misc', at least on this=
:-> machine.
:-> > > Kernel is plain 2.1.28, no top or other things running. And the bea=
:-> st looks
:-> > > stable in all other regards.
:-> >=20
:-> > Hmm... For little or no reason, I don't actually _have_ a /proc/misc=
:-> .
:-> >=20
:-> > Matthew.
:-> >=20
:-> hmm, mine sais:
:-> UWVS=FE|$ =FEt$,=A1TXA=FED$=C7D$=FE=EC
:-> UWVS=FE|$ =FEt$,=A1TXA=FED$=C7D$=FE=EC
:-> UWVS=FE|$ =FEt$,=A1TXA=FE=>
and I get this:

root:/home/ik5pvx # cat /proc/misc
cat: /proc/misc: Bad address
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

If someone is interested in the core file I can mail it to him :-)

Kernel 2.1.28, no patches applied. Up since yesterday on a low usage
machine, executed from inside X. What *should* /proc/misc show instead?

Pf

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