> Hmm, I tried reproducing your bug in a vmware, and was not able to. Do > you still get the bug? Yes, it still happens for me using 2.6.18-8.
> ./crash results in "Aborted", and only that, nothing new in dmesg. It would do that if you failed to enable core dumps via "ulimit -c unlimited". If you enable core dumps, I would expect to see the described crash when using a broken kernel, and "Aborted (core dumped)" when using a working one. Bob