general protection in 1.2.13

Breakdown (genie@america.com)
Tue, 5 Sep 1995 07:32:13 -0400 (EDT)

I got this while working in Linux 1.2.13, when I ran the 'man' command as
root. I have a dx2/66 mhz w/16 megs ram and 8 megs swap space, mach32
and was on ppp at the time this happened. The system didn't crash, it
just kept giving me the same error as many times as I typed 'man' and
then after like 30 seconds, it stopped(even though I gave it another
'man' to see if it's going to give me another 'general protection'). Is
this some 'bug' or what?

Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: general protection: 0000
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: EIP: 0010:00126834
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: eax: 00000003 ebx: 0001621a ecx:
00da0302 edx: ecf00085
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: esi: 00000002 edi: 00000400 ebp:
0001621a esp: 00d32d98
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b
ss: 0018
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: Process man (pid: 1186, process nr: 22,
stackpage=00d32000)
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: Stack: 00000001 00000302 00000400
0012689b 00000302 0001621a 00000400 00000001
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: 00000400 00000302 0001621a
0012715e 00000302 0001621a 00000400 0001621a
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: 00dae460 00000000 00000000
00000001 00159a95 00000302 0001621a 00000400
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: Call Trace: 0012689b 0012715e 00159a95
0015a052 001578b0 00127a4c 0015b264
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: 0015b1de 0015965f 00125606
0012eb5d 0012e8dc 0011e938 0011ec31 0011e3c7
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: 00124c04 001106f9
Sep 5 07:25:30 beast kernel: Code: 66 39 4a 0c 75 32 39 5a 08 75 2d 39
7a 04 75 08 89 d0 5b 5e

Other processes that were running were:

PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
1 ? S 0:02 init
6 ? S 0:00 bdflush (daemon)
7 ? S 0:00 update (bdflush)
21 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/crond -l10
32 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/syslogd
34 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/klogd
36 ? S 0:00 /usr/sbin/inetd
41 ? S 0:00 /usr/bin/uustat
53 v05 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty5
511 ? S 0:00 gpm -t ms
720 v04 S 0:00 /sbin/agetty 38400 tty4
1018 v01 S 0:01 -tcsh
1136 v01 S 0:00 sh /usr/X11/bin/startx
1137 v01 S 0:00 xinit /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc --
1138 ? S 0:11 X :0
1139 v01 S 0:00 sh /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc
1143 v01 S 0:00 fvwm
1159 v01 S 0:06 netscape
1168 v02 S 0:00 -tcsh
1173 s01 S 0:00 pppd /dev/cua1 38400
1187 v02 S 0:00 telnet america.com
723 v03 S 0:00 -tcsh
726 v02 S 0:00 -tcsh
1192 v03 R 0:00 ps ax
733 v06 S 0:00 sh /usr/local/bin/mess
1112 v06 S 0:00 tail -f messages

Martin

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