Re: Oops with 2.4.23

Marcelo Tosatti
2003-12-18T11:54:04Z

On Thu, 18 Dec 2003, Arnaud Fontaine wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using 2.4.23 kernel with no patchset. It was the first time i
> install a linux distribution on this PC, so i can't tell you if it have
> this Oops with an another version of the kernel. It looks to work fine
> during 1 or 2 days until i have an weird Oops. I have rebooted the machine
> after this but it appears again few days later and despite some reboot.
>
> I haven't include the support for module loadable. I am using Debian
> GNU/Linux Woody up to date.

Andrew,

This is likely to be bad memory.

Can you try memtest86 on the box ?

> Thanks for you help.
> Arnaud Fontaine
>
> -------------- ksymoops
> <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000000
> c0138ff2
> *pde = 00000000
> Oops: 0000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[vfs_follow_link+26/332] Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010217
> eax: 00000000 ebx: caaf5f8c ecx: cba98288 edx: caaf5f8c
> esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: cbafc0e0 esp: caaf5ee4
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Process ps (pid: 800, stackpage=caaf5000)
> Stack: caa3dc40 caaf4000 caaf5f8c cbafc0e0 c014add7 caaf5f8c 00000000
> c0136dea
> caa3dc40 caaf5f8c cbafc0e0 caaf5f8c cb57d000 00000000 00000001
> 00000001
> 00000001 cb57d00d caa3dc40 cb57d006 00000007 08733bbe c0136f56
> c01370c7
> Call Trace: [proc_follow_link+27/32] [link_path_walk+1794/2132]
> [path_walk+26/28] [path_lookup+27/36] [open_namei+101/1244]
> Code: 80 3e 2f 0f 85 a5 00 00 00 53 e8 b7 d4 ff ff ba 00 e0 ff ff
>
>
> >>ebx; caaf5f8c <END_OF_CODE+a840894/????>
> >>ecx; cba98288 <END_OF_CODE+b7e2b90/????>
> >>edx; caaf5f8c <END_OF_CODE+a840894/????>
> >>ebp; cbafc0e0 <END_OF_CODE+b8469e8/????>
> >>esp; caaf5ee4 <END_OF_CODE+a8407ec/????>
>