From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 11:43:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 11:43:22 -0400 Received: from pc-62-30-76-3-az.blueyonder.co.uk ([62.30.76.3]:5892 "EHLO mnemosyne.j-harris.dircon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 1 May 2001 11:43:13 -0400 Message-ID: <3AEED9A8.56205EBE@uwe.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 01 May 2001 16:43:14 +0100 From: Jamie Harris X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.3 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erin Jones CC: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, bristol@lists.lug.org.uk Subject: Re: More!! Kernel NULL pointer, over my head... (DOH!) In-Reply-To: <01c801c0d252$6a916a80$1601b10a@internationalcomputing.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erin Jones wrote: > > are you sure this works: > gzip -d ; tar xvf myFile.tar.gz????? > shouldn't it be > gzip -cd myFile.tar.gz | tar xvf - I think I have proven myself unworth of your help by producing the above, obvious to everyone, else cockup. As unworthy as I am, here I go again... As suggested by Phil on Bristol LUG I've fsck'd my filesystems. Got something interesting in the process though. Booted using some Slackware 7.1 (2.2.16) disks to fsck / and got similar errors to those already described :( Yet the system came up... As there wasn't any swap configured I can pretty much rule that out, and I had not attempted to mount any file systems... These are the same disks I used to carry out the inital install and I did't get problems then... I am starting to think Hardware but have been told that a copy of ksymoops might shed some more light... Thanks again. Jamie... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= *** Slowly and surely the UNIX crept up on the Nintendo user... *** =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----Version: 3.1 GCS/ED d-(++) s:+ a- C+++>++++$ U+++>$ P++++ L+++>+++++ E+(---) W++ N o? K? w(++++) O- M V? PS PE? Y PGP- t+ 5 X- R- tv- b++ DI++ D+++ G e++ h* r++>+++ y+++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------