Date: Tue, 29 Apr 1997 09:04:37 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Desparate Plea for Help... Message-ID: <19970429090437.IE27356@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.970428184022.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>; from Simon Shapiro on Apr 28, 1997 08:44:34 -0700 References: <199704280221.LAA13874@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> <XFMail.970428184022.Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
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As Simon Shapiro wrote: > I have surrounded this code with printf's. Quite few of them. > The result was a crash with trap 9 in generic_bzero + 0x0f. This is a General Protection Fault. These are segment-register related, and since we don't use segment registers, they cannot happen. :) I've seen it on bad hardware, on some serial console DDB condition (where Bruce had some explanation for it). Maybe it's a printf-non-reentrancy issue here. > This was preceeded with several calls to _end. This means you're using some LKM (maybe involunteerely, what does `modstat' say during normal operation?). -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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