2.0.36 kernel, general protection in sock_select

Don Bennett (dpb@infoseek.com)
Mon, 14 Dec 1998 15:48:37 -0800


I'm getting lots of messages that look like this in my
/var/logs/messages file:

Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: general protection: 0000
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: CPU: 0
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: EIP: 0010:[sock_select+16/44]
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: eax: f00000fd ebx: 00138b4c ecx: 03985f78 edx: 00000090
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: esi: 01c9d3fc edi: 00000001 ebp: 00000000 esp: 03985e4c
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: Process pyseekd (pid: 5704, process nr: 45, stackpage=03985000)
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: Stack: 0012de9d 00000000 01c9d3fc 00000001 00000000 00000015 01c9d3fc 00000000
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: 00000000 00000000 0012e04d 00000001 00000000 01c9d3fc 00000016 00000000
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: bd5fdc14 bd5fdc1c 00000001 01abc000 00000001 01abc000 0012e382 00000016
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: Call Trace: [select_check+49/132] [do_select+349/632] [sys_select+394/604] [sys_connect+305/372] [udp_sendmsg+46/180] [inet_sendmsg+129/144] [sys_socketcall+449/732]
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: [system_call+85/124]
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: Code: 8b 40 24 85 c0 74 11 ff 74 24 10 ff 74 24 10 52 ff d0 83 c4
Dec 14 14:56:34 cayenne kernel: VFS: Close: file count is 0

The machine was installed with RedHat 5.1, and the
kernel was upgraded to 2.0.36.

The error occurs frequently when I run my application, which is
an intranet search engine.

Don Bennett
dpb@infoseek.com

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