Re: Kernel oopps crash boom..

Linus Torvalds (Linus.Torvalds@cs.Helsinki.FI)
Wed, 6 Sep 1995 07:14:40 +0300


Jarkko Lietolahti: "Kernel oopps crash boom.." (Sep 5, 22:32):
>
> Kernel 1.3.22. Gdb 4.14.
> 24 Mb RAM, 2 x EIDE disks(500 and 1.1Gb), 100Mhz Pentium.
> Running 68% ELF system.
>
> Was debugging my own program.
> Typed quit at gdb prompt and said yes.
>
> Why? Where? What?
>
> Sep 5 21:30:51 pumpuli linux: koe trying to free kernel page-directory: not good
> Sep 5 21:30:51 pumpuli linux: Trying to free free memory (00f635b0): memory probably corrupted

Ok, this bug _should_ be fixed in 1.3.24.. What seems to be happening
is that a zombie exits twice, and I'm partially working on it still
(waiting on some more info), but 1.3.24 should be better.

Linus