general protection failure with 2.0.32

Jens Lautenbacher (jens@tellux.de)
03 Apr 1998 12:06:03 +0200


Last night my machine started to produce the following entries in the
messages file (I removed the date & Kernel name - d&k - to save some
horizontal space):

general protection: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[nfs+8113/49152]
EFLAGS: 00010286
eax: fffffeff ebx: 054c8018 ecx: 00000000 edx: 05cd9018
esi: 001d2600 edi: 001d2600 ebp: 0484409c esp: 04fcccf0
ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Process xemacs (pid: 4113, process nr: 75, stackpage=04fcc000)
Stack: 001d2600 001d2608 001d2600 0484409c 00000000 00000046 00001770 07e45dfc
00000003 0880e301 08863f10 001d2600 04fccd30 00000000 00000002 04844018
00000000 001d2608 00000010 04844018 00000088 0000000c 02af0400 04fcce44
Call Trace: [st:st_setup+-275443/3256] [nfs+7952/49152]
[vt_ioctl+353/6936] [con_set_font+40/68] [n_tty_ioctl+112/1252]
[free_area_pages+259/348] [nfs+7558/49152]
[nfs+1259/49152] [rw_swap_page+50/728] [nfs+17995/49152]
[ext2_rmdir+412/664] [ext2_rmdir+454/664] [open_namei+570/1032]
[open_namei+680/1032] [open_namei+174/1032]
[open_namei+570/1032] [do_mknod+75/348] [do_mknod+260/348]
[setup_arg_pages+119/308] [ret_from_sys_call+37/136]
Code: 81 98 c7 1b 4c a1 80 a7 1c 27 03 31 4f 3c 5e 24 38 51 8b 46

and so on, mostly for processes like login, smbd. It wasn't possible
to log into the machine via xdm anymore.

Any suggestions where the problem may be?

jtl

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