GPF in 2.1.57

Mark Gritter (mgritter@CS.Stanford.EDU)
Sat, 1 Nov 1997 03:39:17 -0800 (PST)


I know--- not running the most recent 2.1.x is just asking for it.
But I couldn't find anything that looked like this in the kernel
archives, so here goes:

The GPF occured while running a remote Netscape 4.0 over X windows.
My machine's a 486DX/33. Here's the log (w/ names pasted in from System.map):

Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: general protection: f310
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: CPU: 0
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c010eb89> schedule]
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: eax: c01a7294 ebx: c0b0c000 ecx: c0b0df18 edx: 000000ec
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: esi: c0d38000 edi: 010f67ec ebp: c0b0df2c esp: c0b0df08
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: Process asclock (pid: 220, process nr: 27, stackpage=c0b0d000)
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: Stack: 00000001 c0f7e284 00000000 0000000d 00000000 c01a7294 010f67ec c0b0c000
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: c010e7c0 00000000 c012d96c 00000001 c0f7e284 c0f7e000 c0b0df80 00000001
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: c0b0c000 c0cbde54 c012dc50 00000000 c0f7e000 00000000 c0b0dfac bffffb48
Nov 1 00:18:45 erdos kernel: Call Trace: [<c010e7c0> process_timeout] [<c012d96c> do_select] [<c012dc50> sys_select] [<c010d809> old_select] [<c010939a> system_call] [<c010002b> startup_32]

Sorry, my config file got lost. Not running NFS, SMP, or other
usual culprits.

A similar problem happened several minutes later under similar
circumstances, but just left a mess in the messages log.

Anyone else run into this? So far, this has been the only
problem I've had with 2.1.x kernels. I'll upgrade and look into
it some more if it happens again.

Mark