More!! Kernel NULL pointer, over my head...

From: Jamie Harris (jamie.harris@uwe.ac.uk)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 00:06:07 EST


OK...

a 'tar xvfz myFile.tar.gz' results in the following in /var/log/syslog

May 1 05:58:11 mnemosyne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000000
May 1 05:58:11 mnemosyne kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01e55000, %cr3 =
01e55000
May 1 05:58:11 mnemosyne kernel: *pde = 00000000

however this time I'm using a different file. I can however sucessfully
do the following
        gzip -d ; tar xvf myFile.tar.gz

Don't know if that gives anyone any hints... I haven't changed any
software on the system recently so I don't think it can be a bad tar or
gzip binary. I get the same for root and non-privileged users.

thanks again.

Jamie...

On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jamie Harris wrote:

> Morning all,
>
> Sorry for the big cross post but I don't have the first clue about where
> to send this one. I get this from my stock 2.2.18 kernel in
> /var/log/syslog:
>
> May 1 05:27:36 mnemosyne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 00000000
> May 1 05:27:36 mnemosyne kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00362000, %cr3 =
> 00362000
> May 1 05:27:36 mnemosyne kernel: *pde = 00000000
> May 1 05:29:36 mnemosyne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 00000000
> May 1 05:29:36 mnemosyne kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 036dc000, %cr3 =
> 036dc000
> May 1 05:29:36 mnemosyne kernel: *pde = 00000000
> May 1 05:30:28 mnemosyne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
> dereference at virtual address 00000000
> May 1 05:30:28 mnemosyne kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00ca7000, %cr3 =
> 00ca7000
> May 1 05:30:28 mnemosyne kernel: *pde = 00000000
>
>
> This time it seemed to be caused by running tar on a file, but I've
> noticed a similar error in the past but they've never made anything fall
> over. The tar process appeared to die but then again so did the telnet
> session so I don't know in what order they went down. I tried 3 times
> just to check it wasn't a fluke... What other details would be useful??
>
> Cheers Jamie...
>
> PS I'm not on the linux-kernel list so please post to me directly...

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