General Protection strikes 1.3.83

Steven L Baur (steve@miranova.com)
03 Apr 1996 21:54:10 -0800


I've had crashes like this one with every 1.3 kernel I've run. I was
innocently typing in XEmacs, when the X Server disappeared. I hope
these stack traces are helping someone figure out what's wrong with
1.3. At least this time I got a stack trace, the last couple times
before this (with 1.3.82 and 1.3.81) have left no trace in the system
logs.

Machine configuration is appended after syslog.

Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+34/216]
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: eax: 01b29e54 ebx: 00684000 ecx: 0000014c edx: 7273752f
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: esi: 0000014c edi: 01b29e54 ebp: 01b1ac98 esp: 01b1ac8c
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Process rpc.nfsd (pid: 81, process nr: 23, stackpage=01b1a000)
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Stack: 01ba9808 0000014c 00000000 0019e54c 0014962e 01b29e54 01ba9808 001349e0
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: 01ba9808 01ba9808 00646ac4 00134ccb 01ba9808 00646ac4 00000300 00000000
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: 00000320 0013512a 00646ac4 00000000 00000320 00646ab2 001729cd 00646ac4
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback3+42/64] [sock_wfree+36/48] [kfree_skb+167/232] [dev_kfree_skb+62/76] [el3_start_xmit+425/528] [dev_queue_xmit+375/444] [ip_build_xmit+1343/2800]
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: [flush_to_ldisc+136/144] [timer_bh+329/340] [udp_send+208/244] [udp_getfrag+0/192] [udp_sendto+220/292] [skb_free_datagram+106/112] [udp_sendmsg+52/188] [inet_sendmsg+153/176]
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: [sys_sendto+290/316] [lookup+218/244] [sys_socketcall+495/732] [system_call+89/160]
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Code: 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 61 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00 00 00 83 7a 4c 00
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+34/216]
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: eax: 01b29e54 ebx: 00684000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 7273752f
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: esi: 01b29e94 edi: 01b29e54 ebp: 01b1ab98 esp: 01b1ab8c
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Process rpc.nfsd (pid: 81, process nr: 23, stackpage=01b1a000)
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Stack: 01ba9808 01b29e94 01b29e94 00000001 001495d3 01b29e54 001499d5 01ba9808
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: 01b29e10 00000000 00132bcc 01b29e94 00000000 01b29e10 01b29e10 0000000b
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: 01b1ac50 00132e05 01b29e94 00084c90 00120582 01b29e10 00084c90 00000003
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Call Trace: general protection: 0000
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+34/216]
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: eax: 01b29e54 ebx: 00684000 ecx: 00000206 edx: 7273752f
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: esi: 01ba9808 edi: 01b29e54 ebp: 01b1a9cc esp: 01b1a9c0
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Process rpc.nfsd (pid: 81, process nr: 23, stackpage=01b1a000)
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Stack: 01ba9808 01ba9808 0153bece 0153bece 001495f0 01b29e54 00646ae4 001463d9
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: 01ba9808 000000a4 001400a4 00646a38 001400a4 00146313 01ba9808 00646a38
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: 00646ae4 0019e54c 0353bece 0153bece 000000a4 0019665c 00646a24 00646ae4
Apr 3 21:03:01 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback2+24/44] [udp_deliver+185/200] [cleanup_rbuf+176/340] [cleanup_rbuf+176/340] [udp_rcv+547/560] [ip_rcv+851/1040] [net_bh+236/268]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/32] [n_tty_set_termios+132/576] [printk+280/304] [tqueue_bh+12/56] [die_if_kernel+459/704] [do_general_protection+40/88] [do_general_protection+0/88]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [error_code+75/96] [wake_up_interruptible+34/216] [def_callback1+23/28] [inet_release+29/108] [sock_release+92/156] [sock_close+37/44] [close_fp+94/132] [do_exit+222/436]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kerneld: error: Identifier removed
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [die_if_kernel+694/704] [<03000000>] [<02800000>] [do_general_protection+40/88] [do_general_protection+0/88] [error_code+75/96] [tqueue_bh+20/56] [wake_up_interruptible+34/216]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [def_callback3+42/64] [sock_wfree+36/48] [kfree_skb+167/232] [dev_kfree_skb+62/76] [el3_start_xmit+425/528] [dev_queue_xmit+375/444] [ip_build_xmit+1343/2800] [flush_to_ldisc+136/144]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [timer_bh+329/340] [udp_send+208/244] [udp_getfrag+0/192] [udp_sendto+220/292] [skb_free_datagram+106/112] [udp_sendmsg+52/188] [inet_sendmsg+153/176] [sys_sendto+290/316]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [lookup+218/244] [sys_socketcall+495/732] [system_call+89/160]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Code: 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 61 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00 00 00 83 7a 4c 00
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+34/216]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: eax: 01b29e54 ebx: 00684000 ecx: 00000216 edx: 7273752f
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: esi: 01ba9808 edi: 01b29e54 ebp: 00193b5c esp: 00193b50
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 0018 ss: 0018
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Process swapper (pid: 0, process nr: 0, stackpage=00191cf0)
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Stack: 01ba9808 01ba9808 0153bece 0153bece 001495f0 01b29e54 008452f4 001463d9
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: 01ba9808 000000a4 001400a4 00845248 001400a4 00146313 01ba9808 00845248
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: 008452f4 0019e54c 0353bece 0153bece 000000a4 0019665c 00845234 008452f4
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback2+24/44] [udp_deliver+185/200] [cleanup_rbuf+176/340] [cleanup_rbuf+176/340] [udp_rcv+547/560] [ip_rcv+851/1040] [net_bh+236/268]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/32] [sys_idle+92/112] [system_call+89/160] [init+0/544] [start_kernel+355/368]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Code: 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 61 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00 00 00 83 7a 4c 00
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 00193d30, next= 00000000, order=0
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 00193d20, next= 00000000, order=0
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: kfree of non-kmalloced memory: 00194154, next= 00000000, order=0
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: idle task may not sleep
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna last message repeated 4 times
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+34/216]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: eax: 01b29e54 ebx: 00684000 ecx: 00000216 edx: 7273752f
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: esi: 01ba9808 edi: 01b29e54 ebp: 01acded0 esp: 01acdec4
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Process sh (pid: 5153, process nr: 23, stackpage=01acd000)
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Stack: 01ba9808 01ba9808 0153bece 0153bece 001495f0 01b29e54 01ba9edc 001463d9
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: 01ba9808 000000a0 001400a0 01ba9e30 001400a0 00146313 01ba9808 01ba9e30
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: 01ba9edc 0019e54c 8053bece 0153bece 000000a0 0019665c 01ba9e1c 01ba9edc
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [def_callback2+24/44] [udp_deliver+185/200] [cleanup_rbuf+172/340] [cleanup_rbuf+172/340] [udp_rcv+547/560] [ip_rcv+851/1040] [net_bh+236/268]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: [do_bottom_half+59/96] [handle_bottom_half+11/32]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Code: 8b 02 83 f8 01 75 61 9c 5e fa c7 02 00 00 00 00 83 7a 4c 00
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[wake_up_interruptible+34/216]
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: eax: 01b29e54 ebx: 00684000 ecx: 00000212 edx: 7273752f
Apr 3 21:03:02 deanna kernel: esi: 01ba9808 edi: 01b29e54 ebp: 01e14e20 esp: 01e14e14
#
# Automatically generated make config: don't edit
#

#
# Loadable module support
#
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_MODVERSIONS=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y

#
# General setup
#
# CONFIG_MATH_EMULATION is not set
CONFIG_NET=y
# CONFIG_MAX_16M is not set
# CONFIG_PCI is not set
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=m
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M486=y

#
# Floppy, IDE, and other block devices
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE is not set

#
# Please see drivers/block/README.ide for help/info on IDE drives
#
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_HD_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=m
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_XD is not set
# CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD is not set

#
# Networking options
#
# CONFIG_FIREWALL is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALIAS is not set
CONFIG_INET=y
# CONFIG_IP_FORWARD is not set
# CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST is not set
# CONFIG_IP_ACCT is not set
# CONFIG_ARPD is not set

#
# (it is safe to leave these untouched)
#
# CONFIG_INET_PCTCP is not set
CONFIG_INET_RARP=m
# CONFIG_NO_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY is not set
# CONFIG_TCP_NAGLE_OFF is not set
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y

#
#
#
# CONFIG_IPX is not set
# CONFIG_ATALK is not set
# CONFIG_AX25 is not set
# CONFIG_NETLINK is not set

#
# SCSI support
#
CONFIG_SCSI=y

#
# SCSI support type (disk, tape, CDrom)
#
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_ST=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SR=m
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=m

#
# Some SCSI devices (e.g. CD jukebox) support multiple LUNs
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_MULTI_LUN is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_AUTO_BIOSP is not set

#
# SCSI low-level drivers
#
# CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_AHA152X=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1542 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AHA1740 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AIC7XXX is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_BUSLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_DMA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA_PIO is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_U14_34F is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_FUTURE_DOMAIN is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR5380 is not set
CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PAS16 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_QLOGIC is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_SEAGATE is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_T128 is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_ULTRASTOR is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_7000FASST is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_EATA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_PPA is not set
# CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974 is not set

#
# Network device support
#
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=m
CONFIG_SLIP=m
CONFIG_SLIP_COMPRESSED=y
# CONFIG_SLIP_SMART is not set
CONFIG_PPP=m

#
# CCP compressors for PPP are only built as modules.
#
# CONFIG_STRIP is not set
# CONFIG_SCC is not set
CONFIG_PLIP=m
# CONFIG_EQUALIZER is not set
# CONFIG_DLCI is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ALPHA is not set
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_SMC=y
CONFIG_WD80x3=y
# CONFIG_ULTRA is not set
# CONFIG_SMC9194 is not set
# CONFIG_LANCE is not set
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
# CONFIG_EL1 is not set
# CONFIG_EL2 is not set
CONFIG_EL3=y
# CONFIG_VORTEX is not set
# CONFIG_NET_ISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_EISA is not set
# CONFIG_NET_POCKET is not set
# CONFIG_TR is not set
# CONFIG_ARCNET is not set

#
# ISDN subsystem
#
# CONFIG_ISDN is not set

#
# CD-ROM drivers (not for SCSI or IDE/ATAPI drives)
#
# CONFIG_CD_NO_IDESCSI is not set

#
# Filesystems
#
# CONFIG_QUOTA is not set
CONFIG_MINIX_FS=m
# CONFIG_EXT_FS is not set
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
# CONFIG_XIA_FS is not set
CONFIG_FAT_FS=m
CONFIG_MSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=m
CONFIG_UMSDOS_FS=m
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
# CONFIG_ROOT_NFS is not set
# CONFIG_SMB_FS is not set
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
# CONFIG_HPFS_FS is not set
CONFIG_SYSV_FS=m

#
# Character devices
#
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
# CONFIG_DIGI is not set
# CONFIG_CYCLADES is not set
# CONFIG_STALDRV is not set
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
# CONFIG_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_PSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_MS_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_ATIXL_BUSMOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_UMISC is not set
# CONFIG_QIC02_TAPE is not set
# CONFIG_FTAPE is not set
# CONFIG_APM is not set
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
# CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT is not set
CONFIG_WDT=m
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG=y

#
# Sound
#
CONFIG_SOUND=m
# CONFIG_PAS is not set
CONFIG_SB=y
CONFIG_ADLIB=y
# CONFIG_GUS is not set
# CONFIG_MPU401 is not set
# CONFIG_UART6850 is not set
# CONFIG_PSS is not set
# CONFIG_GUS16 is not set
# CONFIG_GUSMAX is not set
# CONFIG_MSS is not set
# CONFIG_SSCAPE is not set
# CONFIG_TRIX is not set
# CONFIG_MAD16 is not set
# CONFIG_CS4232 is not set
# CONFIG_MAUI is not set
CONFIG_AUDIO=y
CONFIG_MIDI=y
CONFIG_YM3812=y
# CONFIG_SMWAVE is not set
SBC_BASE=220
SBC_IRQ=7
SBC_DMA=1
SB_DMA2=6
SB_MPU_BASE=330
SB_MPU_IRQ=7
DSP_BUFFSIZE=65536

#
# Kernel hacking
#
# CONFIG_PROFILE is not set

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