From: gowen@apex.cs.tufts.edu (Gregory Owen) Subject: [Q]: kernel paging request error Date: Sun, 11 Jul 1993 16:42:12 GMT
I have the MCC pl8 distribution of Linux on my 386-25, 8meg
RAM, ~12meg swap. Every now and then, mostly while reading netnews on
the local Sparc through kermit, I get the following error message and
the tty locks.
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at address c0000674
> Oops: 0000
> EIP: 0010:0014F71D
> EFLAGS: 00010246
> eax: 00000060 ebx: 00000660 ecx: 00762000 edx: 00000000
> esi: 00000000 edi: 00072000 ebp: 007f52e0
> ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b
> Pid: 787, process nr: 16
> 0f b3 53 14 0f 93 c0 84 c0 74
If I start up kermit in another virtual tty, I can resume what
I'm doing just fine. But nothing seems to reset that first tty -- I
can kill the shell from another tty and getty restarts, but nothing
typed seems to reach getty in that tty.
This happened with the pl8 kernel that came with the MCC
release, and with two pl10 kernels I compiled (although with differing
frequency -- the kernel with the least options compiled in seems to
avoid the problem more).
Can anyone give me any pointers to what might be causing this
problem, how to avoid it, or where the error message is coming from?
Thanks in advance. e-mail is preferred (a real job plays hell
with your newsreading time) but certainly not insisted upon. I will
summarize any solutions to the net.
Thanks!
greg owen
gowen@apex.cs.tufts.edu, gowen@jade.tufts.edu, gowen@xis.xerox.com