Try running this oops through ksymoops to get a full report. That will
help out a lot.
What kernel version are you running?
If it's an old version, the immediate response from anyone on the
linux-kernel mailing list would be to upgrade to the latest.
Also, if you want to report a bug, first search the linux-kernel for
problems like this, and then follow the instructions in the
linux/Documentation directory on how to submit a bug.
Hope this helps.
greg k-h
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 09:24:52AM -0800, Rob Hudson wrote:
> I got this when I woke up this morning. I left my computer at the
> console. This happened at 4am, which is usually when the cron jobs
> kick in. This info showed up on the screen, but my computer
> wouldn't accept anything from the keyboard. I had to hard reboot
> it. But this was left in my /var/log/messages:
>
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at
>virtual address 0000005c
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 07c99000, %cr3 = 07c99000
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: *pde = 00000000
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: Oops: 0000
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: CPU: 0
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: EIP: 0010:[prune_dcache+134/300]
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: eax: c562d398 ebx: c562d380 ecx: c562d398 edx:
>c562d398
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: esi: c562d360 edi: 00000040 ebp: 00000d31 esp:
>c03a1e90
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: Process slocate (pid: 10638, process nr: 42,
>stackpage=c03a1000)
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: Stack: c01e5c9c 00000fff c03a1ed0 00000000 00000fff
>c01301e3 fffffd2e 00000fff
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: 00000000 c020ad10 c01e5c9c c020ad10 c6288e20
>c7025cb0 c7025cfc 00000000
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: c03a1ed0 c03a1ed0 c013024a 00000fff 00000000
>c020ad10 c01e5c9c c020ad10
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: Call Trace: [try_to_free_inodes+199/264]
>[grow_inodes+30/384] [__brelse+19/84]
> [get_new_inode+185/280] [iget+88/96] [ext2_lookup+84/124] [real_lookup+79/160]
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: [lookup_dentry+296/488] [__namei+40/88]
>[sys_newlstat+14/96] [system_call+52/56]
> Feb 2 04:02:21 eroica kernel: Code: 83 7f 1c 01 0f 94 c0 31 c9 88 c1 89 4c 24 14 8b
>46 50 85 c0
>
> Anyone have any idea what happened? Showed I report it as a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Rob.
