HELP: Segmentation faults with kernels 2.2.x

Jarkko Haapalainen (eagle@opp.ysakk.fi)
Thu, 15 Apr 1999 18:49:28 +0300 (EEST)


Why my schools server (running redhat 5.2) kernels 2.2.x doesn't work, I
have tried so many times to get it work but no.. Example I try to run
"passwd" program and I got this(same with when running lilo):

(current) UNIX password:
New UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
00000028
current->tss.cr3 = 0ef45000, %cr3 = 0ef45000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c0132ebe>]
EFLAGS: 00010296
eax: cfb90004 ebx: cfcd4a40 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000001
esi: cfcd49e0 edi: 0000ffff ebp: bfff0000 esp: cfefbf70
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process passwd (pid: 263, process nr: 5, stackpage=cfefb000)
Stack: 0000ffff bfff0000 cf313360 ced81760 c013314a cfcd4a40 00000000 00000000
00000000 bffffa34 c0124cd2 00000000 ffffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000000 cfefa000 c0124ce7 00000000 c0108a8c 400362cc 4002e0d8 400362cc
Call Trace: [<c013314a>] [<c0124cd2>] [<c0124ce7>] [<c0108a8c>]
Code: 8b 74 91 24 f6 43 2c 01 74 09 53 e8 52 ff ff ff 83 c4 04 80
Segmentation fault

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And the weird thing is that the kernels 2.0.x runs perfectly. So where I'm
doing wrong, can anybody help me with this? My computer is one processor
pentium-II(Intel 350Mhz), Adaptec 2940 UW 40Mbit/s scsi-controller and
memory in computer has 256Mb.

ps. I'm not on the kernel mailing list so please if you answer this
message send your answer directly to me (e-mail: jarkkoha@dlc.fi). Thanks
for your help!

Jarkko Haapalainen / <jarkkoha@dlc.fi>

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