Re: weird kernel message

Dan Merillat (harik@accessorl.net)
Tue, 3 Oct 1995 06:08:30 -0400 (EDT)


On Sat, 30 Sep 1995, fuZZy wrote:

> while recompiling my kernel, syslogd dumped the message:
>
> kernel: IMPOSSIBLE 3
>
> kinda hard to get a context on it, had a ppp link up, kernel
> recompile going and a ftp session running. it didn't kill (or even slow
> ) anything, so I's really not all that sure what to make of it.
> --
> -fuZZy
>
Looks like a packet was recieved with a NULL pointer in a structure.
Prossibly due to a memory shortage?