On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 13:39:16 -0500, 
Pete Toscano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000017c
> printing eip:
>and then the KDB prompt appears.  Back when I had my emu10k problems,
>Keith Owen told me to (in a nutshell), go through the running processes
>and "btp" their PID and look for "text.lock".

Those instructions were for a lockup.  This problem is not a lockup, it
is a bad pointer.  In this case you only care about the current
process.  Backtrace (bt) will show what the process was doing.  'id
%eip' will disassemble the failing code.

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