Oops in 2.0.30

Kristofer T. Karas (ktk@ktk.bidmc.harvard.edu)
Mon, 21 Jul 1997 09:51:38 -0400

Came in this morning to find an otherwise stable 2.0.30 machine with
its filesystem locked (any process opening files, blocks), and an oops
on the screen. Syslog had some, but not all, of the output (the code
trace is missing; sigh).

ktk:~$ cat oopslog
general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<001243e1>]
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: f0004567 ebx: 00974d80 ecx: 00000000 edx: f0004567
esi: 00000000 edi: 00974d80 ebp: 00000400 esp: 00974d48
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process grep (pid: 6428, process nr: 31, stackpage=00974000)
Stack: 00974d80 00000000 00000400 0000c000 f0004567 00124541 00084998 00974d80

ktk:~$ ksymoops /lib/modules/2.0.30/system.map < oopslog
Using `/lib/modules/2.0.30/system.map' to map addresses to symbols.

>>EIP: 1243e1 <find_candidate+2d/f4>

ktk:~$ grep '=y' /usr/src/linux-2.0.30/.config
CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KERNELD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_OPTIMIZE=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y
CONFIG_M586=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_TRITON=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y
CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_RST_COOKIES=y
CONFIG_IP_NOSR=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_RTNETLINK=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_LANCE=y
CONFIG_LANCE32=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_SMB_WIN95=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_PRINTER=y
CONFIG_MOUSE=y
CONFIG_PSMOUSE=y
CONFIG_UMISC=y
CONFIG_RTC=y