On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Chris Kloiber wrote:
> Bill Maidment wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Just updated from 2.4.0-test6 to 2.4.0-test7-pre3 and I consistently get
> > the following oops:
> > Any ideas? I am running a Pentium II - 266 laptop with a DE-660 PCMCIA
> > network card.
> >
> > Are there any important changes that I may have missed? I couldn't see
> > anything special in Documentation/Changes.
> >
> > Initializing RT netlink socket
> > Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000001c
>
> (snip!)
>
> I know no one really wants to hear this, but I get the exact same
> message on my Athlon800/Thunderbird system. It doesn't do this with
> -test6, but it has other problems then (like failed dependencies all
> over the place) so I'm not using that either. I'm not a kernel hacker
> myself so I can't really assist in fixing it. Just wanted to say you are
> not alone and maybe neither of us made a mistake.
Hi,
I reported/posted a workaround for this yesterday. If you just want
to continue with testing, you can try it. If it gets further and
locks trying to fire off init, I posted a workaround for that too.
(don't try either one if you're not on a bic-disposable test box;)
The failed dependancies thing sounds to me like you need to upgrade
modutils to >= 2.3.13.
-Mike
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