Re: odd EIP

Kurt Garloff (garloff@kg1.ping.de)
Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:26:24 +0100


On Sun, Mar 22, 1998 at 04:41:10AM -0500, Jon Lewis wrote:
> While rebooting a server tonight (running 2.0.33), e2fsck (1.10) was
> taking a really long time repairing a 2gb partition, so I hit
> alt-scroll-lock a few times. This is one of the results.
>
> EIP: 0023:[<0805999a>] ESP: 002b:bffffda0 EFLAGS: 00000216
> EAX: 00000000 EBX: 0002de34 ECX: 00007628 EDX: 0000b78d
> ESI: 00254008 EDI: 0026459c EBP: bffffdac DS: 002b ES: 002b FS: 002b GS:
> 002b
>
> What's that EIP value mean? It was stuck there for a while, but
> eventually moved on. 0805999a is way out of range for the System.map, and
> no modules were in use.

CS=023: UserSpace,
EIP=08059999a: Somewhere inside a running program
(On my system program code is loaded at 0x0800 0000, whereas
dyn. libs are somewhere like 0x4000 0000.)

You'll never find that in your System.map ...

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Kurt Garloff, Dortmund 
<K.Garloff@ping.de>
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