Re: 486 laptop apm problems

From: Felix Triebel (ernte23@gmx.de)
Date: Fri Dec 13 2002 - 04:12:07 EST


On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 01:50:56PM +0000, John Bradford wrote:
> > why does apmd frequently crash?
> > what do all these ide and apm messages mean?
> > how should I use such an old apm bios?
>
> The IDE messages are warning messages, not critical errors - you can
> ignore them.
>
> Please run the oops through ksymoops and post the output.

sorry for the delay, but this thing is SLOW and there was some work
after it had a hard drive head crash. By the way - does ide taskfile
access correct problems silently or give me a message?

here is the requested ksymoops output, I hope it is useful:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
ksymoops 2.4.5 on i486 2.4.20-rc4-ac1. Options used
     -V (specified)
     -k /proc/ksyms (default)
     -l /proc/modules (default)
     -o lib/modules/2.4.20-rc4-ac1/ (specified)
     -m System.map-ac (specified)

CPU: 486
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000000d8
c011dd5f
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c011dd5f>] Not tainted
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010246
eax: c1030080 ebx: c101f320 ecx: 00000400 edx: 00000000
esi: c0999000 edi: c10731e8 ebp: c1030080 esp: c0a97ed0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process 00hwclock (pid: 759, stackpage=c0a97000)
Stack: c10731cc c10731cc c10731e8 080c1078 c011dee3 c10731cc c0ebeebc 080c1078
       00000001 c0db5304 c10731cc 080c1078 c10731e8 c0ebeebc c0b6e080 c010cdf7
       c10731cc c0ebeebc 080c1078 00000001 c0a96000 ffff0006 c010cce0 bffffbec
Call Trace: [<c011dee3>] [<c010cdf7>] [<c010cce0>] [<c0117c49>] [<c0114a0a>]
  [<c0114936>] [<c010e03d>] [<c0106d34>]
Code: 2b 82 d8 00 00 00 69 c0 c5 4e ec c4 c1 f8 02 c1 e0 0c 03 82

>>EIP; c011dd5f <do_no_page+ef/190> <=====

>>eax; c1030080 <_end+e1a454/1dea3d4>
>>ebx; c101f320 <_end+e096f4/1dea3d4>
>>esi; c0999000 <_end+7833d4/1dea3d4>
>>edi; c10731e8 <_end+e5d5bc/1dea3d4>
>>ebp; c1030080 <_end+e1a454/1dea3d4>
>>esp; c0a97ed0 <_end+8822a4/1dea3d4>

Trace; c011dee3 <handle_mm_fault+e3/160>
Trace; c010cdf7 <do_page_fault+117/434>
Trace; c010cce0 <do_page_fault+0/434>
Trace; c0117c49 <process_timeout+9/10>
Trace; c0114a0a <bh_action+1a/50>
Trace; c0114936 <tasklet_hi_action+46/70>
Trace; c010e03d <schedule+20d/230>
Trace; c0106d34 <error_code+34/40>

Code; c011dd5f <do_no_page+ef/190>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; c011dd5f <do_no_page+ef/190> <=====
   0: 2b 82 d8 00 00 00 sub 0xd8(%edx),%eax <=====
Code; c011dd65 <do_no_page+f5/190>
   6: 69 c0 c5 4e ec c4 imul $0xc4ec4ec5,%eax,%eax
Code; c011dd6b <do_no_page+fb/190>
   c: c1 f8 02 sar $0x2,%eax
Code; c011dd6e <do_no_page+fe/190>
   f: c1 e0 0c shl $0xc,%eax
Code; c011dd71 <do_no_page+101/190>
  12: 03 82 00 00 00 00 add 0x0(%edx),%eax
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

regards,
Felix

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