Steve's crashing 1.3 machine, cured?

Steven L Baur (steve@miranova.com)
12 Apr 1996 20:10:15 -0700

The machine I have that was having so much trouble with Linux 1.3, but
not Linux 1.2 is cured, I think. I've been running 1.3.85 most of the
week (3 days, 7 hours & counting) with modules enabled and the latest
version of __generic_memcpy_tofs. For the most part it has run
smoothly.

I just got an oops from insmod (called from kerneld):

Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address c0000000
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 01053000, xr3 = 01053000
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: *pde = 00102067
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: *pte = 00000027
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: Oops: 0000
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: EIP: 0010:[<02836554>]
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: eax: 02836534 ebx: 01496018 ecx: 00000000 edx: 01496614
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: esi: 000000be edi: 00dee118 ebp: 0000111d esp: 00ddef2c
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: Process insmod (pid: 2109, process nr: 82, stackpage=00dde000)
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: Stack: 00113b11 00564c0c bffff4b0 08047918 bffff424 00101c2c 0186b063 0011d57d
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: c2c00000 00017000 000005fc 00000000 01496018 01496614 000008a4 00000010
Apr 12 18:51:00 deanna kernel: 00dee118 02836534 028365d0 6e756f73 00950064 0095f31d 0095f71c 00000001
Apr 12 18:51:01 deanna kernel: Call Trace: [sys_init_module+1013/1072] [vmalloc+69/100] [<02836534>] [<028365d0>] [do_bottom_half+59/96] [system_call+89/160]
Apr 12 18:51:01 deanna kernel: Code: 00 01 00 01 02 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01 00 01
Apr 12 18:51:01 deanna kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0

Is this a rational oops this time?

This is from starting xmixer (prior to accessing an audio cd). Sound
support is compiled as a module, and I got an earlier message:

Apr 11 10:18:29 deanna insmod: A module named sound already exists
Apr 11 10:18:30 deanna kernel: Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 5, lun 0

Which is abnormal -- I don't think the first message should have occurred.

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