Hi, I ran into some trouble while compiling the pspell library that the new version of Balsa requires - okay, so perhaps I was asking for it :-) I ran the configure script fine, but a kernel oops occurred a few lines into the "make" process. I gather that it might be something to do with dodgy source code, but surely just compiling source code should not produce an oops (there were no compiler warnings until after the oops)? The oops is not fatal; I was able to download, compile and install the ksysmoops program to get the decoded oops message without having to reboot. I rebooted the system and tried compiling from clean sources again and got the same oops, so it seems to be repeatable on my system. If this is the wrong forum for such a message, please let me know! My system is RH6.2, with various updates probably best described by the output of the ver_linux script: Linux xxxx 2.4.0-test9 #1 Sat Sep 16 17:11:06 BST 2000 i586 unknown Kernel modules 2.3.14 Gnu C egcs-2.91.66 Binutils 2.9.5.0.22 Linux C Library 2.1.3 Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.1.3 Procps 2.0.7 Mount 2.10o Net-tools 1.54 Console-tools 0.3.3 Sh-utils 2.0 Modules Loaded emu10k1 soundcore kernel version 2.4.0-test9p1 with Rick van Riel's VM patch System: P133 w/ 32Mb ram. More details available on request. The decoded Oops message is below. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000034 c01527b9 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01527b9>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000001 edx: c1afc000 esi: 00000000 edi: 00000004 ebp: 00000000 esp: c14d7ee0 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process ar (pid: 13549, stackpage=c14d7000) Stack: c14d7f24 c015357b 00000000 00000001 c14d7f54 000001f6 c0a51440 bffff960 c0706019 c109aa50 c14d7f2c c14d7f24 00000013 c01363d8 00000001 ffffff86 c000d220 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c012c1e7 c0a51440 c14d7f54 Call Trace: [<c015357b>] [<c01363d8>] [<c012c1e7>] [<c01371a9>] [<c012c23b>] [<c011d630>] [<c0108d8 3>] Code: f6 43 34 40 74 07 31 c0 e9 f9 00 00 00 8b 53 48 85 d2 74 43 >>EIP; c01527b9 <check_idq+d/118> <===== Trace; c015357b <dquot_transfer+28b/4c8> Trace; c01363d8 <cached_lookup+10/54> Trace; c012c1e7 <chown_common+ff/120> Trace; c01371a9 <__user_walk+4d/58> Trace; c012c23b <sys_chown+33/48> Trace; c011d630 <sys_chown16+40/44> Trace; c0108d83 <system_call+33/40> Code; c01527b9 <check_idq+d/118> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c01527b9 <check_idq+d/118> <===== 0: f6 43 34 40 testb $0x40,0x34(%ebx) <===== Code; c01527bd <check_idq+11/118> 4: 74 07 je d <_EIP+0xd> c01527c6 <check_idq+1a/118> Code; c01527bf <check_idq+13/118> 6: 31 c0 xor %eax,%eax Code; c01527c1 <check_idq+15/118> 8: e9 f9 00 00 00 jmp 106 <_EIP+0x106> c01528bf <check_idq+113/118> Code; c01527c6 <check_idq+1a/118> d: 8b 53 48 mov 0x48(%ebx),%edx Code; c01527c9 <check_idq+1d/118> 10: 85 d2 test %edx,%edx Code; c01527cb <check_idq+1f/118> 12: 74 43 je 57 <_EIP+0x57> c0152810 <check_idq+64/118> John ---------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/