Oops in 2.1.45 when trying to access non-existing files

brian j. pardy (posterkid@psnw.com)
Fri, 18 Jul 1997 20:15:40 -0700 (PDT)


Just received this Oops while trying to compile (while trying to compile
ANYTHING)...

Jul 18 20:01:31 odin syslogd: /etc/utmp: No such file or directory
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
address fffffffb
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 016b7000,
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: *pde = 00000000
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: Oops: 0000
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: CPU: 0
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0129829>]
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: eax: fffffffe ebx: c13cce68 ecx: c12117c8
edx: c1211b88
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: esi: c1b47013 edi: fffffff3 ebp: 00000001
esp: c1877f2c
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: Process cpp (pid: 6775, process nr: 68,
stackpage=c1877000)
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: Stack: c13ccea0 000001b6 00000001 00008180
00000005 006af92f fffffffe c1b47
00d
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: 00000005 006af928 c0129993 c1b47000
00000000 00000001 c13ccea0 00000
1b6
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: c1b47000 000001b6 fffffffe 00000004
c012236b c1b47000 00000001 00000
1b6
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: Call Trace: [<c0129993>] [<c012236b>] [<c012251f>]
[<c010946a>]
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin kernel: Code: 83 7f 08 00 0f 84 89 00 00 00 89 74 24 1c 31
c0 c7 44 24 10
Jul 18 20:01:31 odin last message repeated 2 times

The cpp process received a signal 11 --

posterkid@odin [35 ~/ppp-2.3.1]% make
cd chat; make all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/posterkid/ppp-2.3.1/chat'
cc -c -O2 -DTERMIOS -DSIGTYPE=void
-UNO_SLEEP
-DFNDELAY=O_NDELAY -o chat.o chat.c
cc: Internal compiler error: program cpp got fatal signal 11
make[1]: *** [chat.o] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/posterkid/ppp-2.3.1/chat'
make: *** [all] Error 2

I'm running 2.1.45 with the old Cyrix patch installed.

(I was just able to compile the kernel -- I patched in Martin's SysRq fix
patch, and then added the new .[ch] files from the pppd 2.3.1 distribution.
The kernel compile worked fine, but I hadn't yet rebooted into the new
kernel.)

I'm running a Cyrix 6x86 P133+ with 32 megs, and I haven't had sig11 problems
in the past.

Config is as follows --

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_CYRIX=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_SUSP_HLT=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_FAST_IO=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_5X86=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_6X86=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_6X86_NOLOCK=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_6X86_WTALLOC=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_6X86_BTB=y
CONFIG_CYRIX_6X86_VSPM=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_AOUT=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA=y
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT=y
CONFIG_PNP=y
CONFIG_PNP_PARPORT_AUTOPROBE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEFLOPPY=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_PATH_MTU_DISCOVERY=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA=y
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA_HAVE_PEDANTIC=0
CONFIG_SCSI_PPA_EPP_TIME=128
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_DUMMY=y
CONFIG_PPP=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=y
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
CONFIG_APM=y
CONFIG_APM_DO_ENABLE=y
CONFIG_APM_CPU_IDLE=y
CONFIG_APM_POWER_OFF=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SB=y
SBC_BASE=220
SBC_IRQ=5
SBC_DMA=1
SB_DMA2=5
SB_MPU_BASE=330
SB_MPU_IRQ=-1

Apologies if this has been mentioned on the list already -- I've been kinda
skimming on account of the 2.0.31 threads...

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