got this on booting up 2.4.2-ac28: Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: kernel BUG at slab.c:1244! Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: EIP: 0010:[kmalloc+303/472] Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: EFLAGS: 00010086 Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: eax: 0000001b ebx: c1447768 ecx: c02900a0 edx: 000016ea Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: esi: cea5a000 edi: cea5a9aa ebp: 00012800 esp: cf27de30 Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Process mingetty (pid: 672, stackpage=cf27d000) Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Stack: c023a56b 000004dc c02ffae0 00000403 00000403 00000000 cea5a000 00001000 Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: 00000015 00000246 c01b1dfe 00000c3c 00000007 c02ffae0 00000403 c01b2a6a Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: 00000000 00000000 cf011a30 cff0de74 00000001 cf27dee8 c0291080 cf27c000 Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Call Trace: [alloc_tty_struct+14/40] [init_dev+138/1088] [tty_open+475/944] [cached_l ookup+16/84] [get_chrfops+106/232] [permission+43/48] [chrdev_open+64/76] Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: [dentry_open+198/336] [filp_open+82/92] [sys_open+56/180] [system_call+51/56] Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Apr 5 09:36:37 grim kernel: Code: 0f 0b 83 c4 08 8b 6b 10 f7 c5 00 04 00 00 74 53 b8 a5 c2 0f Console was half dead -- got the login prompt, but a whole lot of nothing afterwards, but I was able to SysRQ-sync and reboot into another kernel. This problem does not appear in 2.4.3-ac3, FWIW. -- -- John E. Jasen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- In theory, theory and practise are the same. In practise, they aren't. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
