General Protection faults with 1.3.85-8] kernels

William M. Perkins (bill@grnwood.grnwood.richmond.us.net)
Sat, 13 Apr 1996 17:25:07 -0400 (EDT)

When my system boots with any of the latest kernels, 1.3.85 to 1.3.88,
everything goes okey until the X-Window server starts. The server,
/usr/bin/X11/X -> XF86_S3, and xdm get started, but after logging in with
any usercode, the default xterm app never appears. No copies of xterm can be
started and only xclock and the screensaver can be run. Instead I get the
following General Protection Fault message, in this case with the 1.3.88
kernel:

> general protection: f000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<00000005>]
> EFLAGS: 00010202
> eax: 00000018 ebx: 01fd9564 ecx: 00000000 edx: 01ac9384
> esi: 01ac9bf4 edi: 00000000 ebp: 0000000e esp: 018e9f64
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0018 gs: 002b ss: 0018
> Process color_xterm (pid: 345, process nr: 38, stackpage=018e9000)
> Stack: 0282337f 01fd9564 01ac9bf4 018e9f84 00000020 0282c7d0 fffffff8 00000003
> 00000000 00000000 013c0810 08058e80 bffffa1c 0117c000 0012ae61 0001aaea
> 0012aeaa 00000003 013c0810 08058e80 bffffa1c 0010a489 0001aaea 08058e80
> Call Trace: [<0282337f>] [<0282c7d0>] [<0012ae61>] [<0012aeaa>] [<0010a489>]
> Code: ea 00 f0 c3 e2 00 f0 97 ea 00 f0 97 ea 00 f0 54 ff 00 f0 43

I got another general protection message while creating this message for the
popclient program. This one does repeat with a different pid for popclient:

> general protection: f000
> CPU: 0
> EIP: 0010:[<00000005>]
> EFLAGS: 00010202
> eax: 00000018 ebx: 01fd9564 ecx: 00000000 edx: 01ac9bf4
> esi: 01368dd4 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000009 esp: 010d7f64
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0018 gs: 002b ss: 0018
> Process popclient (pid: 547, process nr: 37, stackpage=010d7000)
> Stack: 0282337f 01fd9564 01368dd4 010d7f84 00000020 0282c7d0 fffffff8 00000003
> 00000000 00000000 01313018 08058f00 bffffc87 00ddd000 0012ae61 00002cda
> 0012aeaa 00000003 01313018 08058f00 bffffc87 0010a489 00002cda 08058f00
> Call Trace: [<0282337f>] [<0282c7d0>] [<0012ae61>] [<0012aeaa>] [<0010a489>]
> Code: ea 00 f0 c3 e2 00 f0 97 ea 00 f0 97 ea 00 f0 54 ff 00 f0 43

I do not get these general protection messages for 1.3.84 and previous versions of
the 1.3 kernel.

Bill

PS: This system is a 486DX2-66MHz PCI with 32 MB of memory, a ncr53c810, Sound
Blaster 16, and 3com 3c503 lan card.

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