RedHat 7.3 on a P/3 730MHz got a kernel oops when I tried to do # rpm -fr gdb-5.2.0_2002-06-27-cvs gdb-5.2.0_2002-07-17-cvs gdb-5.2.1.0.90_2002-07-29-cvs gcc-2.96-20000731 glibc-2.2.5 kernel-2.4.18 which were rpm build directories. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c01438e9 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 sg nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 msdos fat loop nfs binfmt_misc autofs4 nfsd lockd s CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01438e9>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010246 EIP is at vfs_unlink [kernel] 0x139 (2.4.18-5.2) eax: 00000000 ebx: ffffffff ecx: d0868eb0 edx: 00000003 esi: cce2cd60 edi: c76ba5a0 ebp: bfffeb28 esp: cd67df64 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process rm (pid: 7114, stackpage=cd67d000) Stack: cce2cd60 ffffffff c014283a cce2cd60 c76ba5a0 ffffffeb c76ba5a0 c4c68000 c76ba5a0 c01439d8 cce2cd60 c76ba5a0 c9b00840 cff9c420 c4c68000 00000012 45460624 00000010 00000000 cd67c000 cd67c000 08053cdb 00000000 c010890f Call Trace: [<c014283a>] lookup_hash [kernel] 0x6a [<c01439d8>] sys_unlink [kernel] 0x88 [<c010890f>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 Code: ff 10 5a 59 8b 47 38 bb f0 ff ff ff 85 c0 75 1a 8b 86 94 00 I am running kernel-2.4.18-5 built by myself.
what did you change? what filesystem is it ?
I fixed a IEEE1394 SBP2 inquiry bug. It is on ext3.
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