2.1.92 oops + other

Jakob Borg (jb@k2.lund.se)
Fri, 3 Apr 1998 21:05:50 +0000


Hi...

Just had a few oopses in (plain vanilla) 2.1.92 causing me to have to reboot the system. They occurred (every time) the program start-stop-daemon was run. The program died with a SIGSEGV after oopsing.

(is there by the way a point to resetting the mouse (serial ports) on every printk? it is _very_ annoying since fixing requires me to rip the cover of my mouse, pull out the serial connector, hold a button while inserting it again, and putting the cover on... also the printk's are sloow, printing the oops text takes ~5-10 seconds)

At the the time the oopses started the system had been running (essentially) idle for a few hours. After a few oopses my console was dead and I used sysrq to boot the system.

I've been using the system for a few hours since, and nothing evil has happened yet, so I'm not sure about the reproducability. Unfortunately I didn't write the oopses down by hand, so this information is not so valuable as it could be. Perhaps anyone recognizes the problem though?

My system:
Debian GNU/Linux 2.0
i586 166MHz
64M
i430TX
kernel compiled by egcs-2.90.27 with -march=pentium

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Jakob Borg <jb@k2.lund.se>
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