Re: [2.1.42] crash launching /usr/src/linux/vmlinuz

Taner Halicioglu (taner@isi.net)
Sun, 1 Jun 1997 00:59:25 -0700 (PDT)


On Sun, 1 Jun 1997, Andrea Arcangeli wrote:

> [2.1.42] crashes and locks if I exec:
>
> /usr/src/linux/vmlinuz

Wow.. that was pretty darn cool... if I run:

taner@boom:~ >/src/linux/vmlinux

my machine hangs for 15-30 seconds, and finally spews an oops, as well as
'Segmentation fault'...

Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: general protection: 0000
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: CPU: 0
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0109466>]
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 08053008 ecx: 0807a7a8 edx: 00000000
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: esi: 0808d0f8 edi: 08053008 ebp: bffff1bc esp: c313bfec
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: ds: 002b es: 002b ss: 0018
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: Process vmlinux (pid: 18368, process nr: 56 stackpage=c313b000)
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: Stack: c0100000 00000023 00000296 bffffb3c 0000002b
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: Call Trace: [<c0100000>]
Jun 1 00:47:51 boom kernel: Code: cf 8d 36 8d b4 26 00 00 00 00 f7 44 24 30 00 00 02 00 54 75

The keyboard is pseudo-trashed (I'm in X), but I was able to regain full
control of my system after a little poking around... and it's still up as
I type this email ;-)

I'm running 2.1.37, BTW...

-Taner