Error message

rblarson@stthomas.edu
Sat, 03 May 1997 02:36:10 -0500


I am running linux slakware 2.0.27 kernel on a cyrix 166+ with 64mb edo
ram. Adaptec SCSI adapter 1542, 3com etherlink III nic, S3 Trio64
video, and a 1.6gig seagate tape drive. I received this error message:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
virtual address c0000005
current->tss.cr3 = 03ba4000, %cr3 = 03ba4000
*pde = 00102067
*pte = 00000027
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<0010a5c7>]
EFLAGS: 00010292
eax: 00000005 ebx: 080519d8 ecx: 00000000 edx: 0000002b
esi: 00000008 edi: 0805f518 ebp: bffffa5c esp: 03ba6fbc
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process top (pid: 11238, process nr: 38, stackpage=03ba6000)
Stack: 080519d8 00000000 00000000 00000008 0805f518 bffffa5c 5d5f5fda
0000002b
ffff002b 0010002b 0000002b 00000005 4001c960 00100023 00000292
bffffa58
0009002b
Call Trace:
Code: 03 00 01 00 00 53 02 5c 04 85 c0 70 1c 01 c1 c0 60 47 8b 1d

and was told to email it to you.
If you know what caused it and how it can be avoided in the future it
would be helpful.
Thanks,
Ryan