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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Pete Toscano <pete.lkml@toscano.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mysterious lockups with 2.4.X (Help w/KDB)
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2001 10:33:04 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10610.983143984@kao2.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:39:16 CDT." <20010225133916.A1329@bubba.toscano.org>

On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:39:16 -0500, 
Pete Toscano <pete.lkml@toscano.org> wrote:
>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000017c
> printing eip:
>and then the KDB prompt appears.  Back when I had my emu10k problems,
>Keith Owen told me to (in a nutshell), go through the running processes
>and "btp" their PID and look for "text.lock".

Those instructions were for a lockup.  This problem is not a lockup, it
is a bad pointer.  In this case you only care about the current
process.  Backtrace (bt) will show what the process was doing.  'id
%eip' will disassemble the failing code.


      reply	other threads:[~2001-02-25 23:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-25 18:39 Mysterious lockups with 2.4.X (Help w/KDB) Pete Toscano
2001-02-25 23:33 ` Keith Owens [this message]

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