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On Tuesday 04 February 2003 12:41, Jesse Kline wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I seem to be getting an abnormal amount of crashes in RedHat lately.
> They seem to be fairly random, so I have been having a though time
> troubleshooting this one. This morning it crashed at 08:39. This time I
> was able to extract some information from the system log, but I'm having
> a hard time making heads or tails of it. It seems to start at 08:35 with
> a NULL pointer dereference, there's a kernel oops in the middle, and at
> 08:39 it crashes with the NULL pointer error. Does anyone know what this
> all means?
not specifically. i'm not a kernel hacker but:
o it looks like a bug in the VM, as the call trace ends in a memory
allocation routine
o gkrellm triggered it, apparently when fork/exec'ing
o you shouldn't bother reporting it to the kernel folk as you have binary
driver loaded (ergo the "tainted" note) and they'll just /dev/null it
o sounds like a basic QA issue that slipped through RH's efforts
huzzah for redhat. sorry to hear about the troubles, though. that sort of
stuff just plain sucks (and is why I never touch the .0's of most releases)
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Aaron J. Seigo
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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler"
- Albert Einstein
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