This weekend I tried out the kernel-image-2.1.125_2.1.125-1.deb package on a SS2; it installed itself with no complaints, and ran well enough for about 40 minutes. Nfs mounts and remote X displays seemed to work fine, but when I tried an rlogin from one of the other machines on the LAN, it stopped at the prompt. I found that I couldn't log on to the SS2 locally anymore, either; su gave me no more prompts for a password. X was still running, and I was able to shut down the xterms, leave X and return to the console--but I still couldn't su to reboot properly, and had to do a Stop-A. Rebooting the old (2.0.35) kernel worked OK.
The syslog had the following oops: Feb 14 03:46:36 mondy -- MARK -- Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy in.rlogind[185]: connect from marco.leffenet Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference<1 >tsk->mm->context = 0000000b Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: tsk->mm->pgd = f2dbb000 Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: \|/ ____ \|/ Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: "@'/ ,. \`@" Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: /_| \__/ |_\ Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: \__U_/ Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: in.rlogind(185): Oops Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: PSR: 114000c2 PC: f00eabd8 NPC: f00eabdc Y: 980000 00 Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: g0: 00000000 g1: f0169634 g2: 00000000 g3: 118000e 2 g4: f0075390 g5: 00000019 g6: ff03a000 g7: 00000000 Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: o0: 00000000 o1: 00000002 o2: 00000002 o3: 0000000 0 o4: 00022608 o5: e0027a24 sp: ff03bd18 o7: f00eabc8 Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: l0: ff03bdb0 l1: f01a4980 l2: f004e4cc l3: 0000002 0 l4: 00000040 l5: 00000000 l6: ff03a000 l7: 00000502 Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: i0: 00000000 i1: 00000000 i2: 00000502 i3: f013b09 8 i4: f015fbe8 i5: e0027a24 fp: ff03bd88 i7: f00eb82c Feb 14 03:48:06 mondy kernel: Instruction DUMP: 90100018 d0046050 ab2e2002 <e4 020015> 80a4a000 328000db d004a114 a6102000 a8102000 Feb 14 03:48:40 mondy in.rlogind[186]: connect from marco.leffenet Feb 14 03:50:42 mondy in.telnetd[192]: connect from marco.leffenet Feb 14 03:50:42 mondy in.telnetd[192]: error: cannot execute /usr/sbin/in.telnet d: No such file or directory Feb 14 04:00:50 mondy syslogd 1.3-3#30: restart. I don't know whether reports about this version of the kernel are still of any relevance, but it *was* one of our packages. By the way, the new bootdisks seem to work rather better than the last set. The drivers disk uncompresses itself only partially, however, but this time there were quite a number of modules in /lib/modules/2.0.35 which weren't there before. I see that this, too, is already being improved. Good work!
