Subject: Kernel error

From: Ralf Rascher <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 13:36:55 +0200

Hello,

I downloaded the kernel on an assabet board, and got this message.
What does this message mean?

Ralf

Uncompressing Linux........................................ done, booting the kernel.
Linux version 2.3.99-pre8-rmk1-np5 (root@Cesar) (gcc version 2.95.2 20000516 
(release) [Rebel.com]) #26 Fri Jun 9 13:32:58 CEST 2000
Architecture: Intel-Assabet
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
zone(0): 8192 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Console: colour dummy device 80x30
Calibrating delay loop... <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 600000d3
pgd = c0004000
*pgd = 00000000, *pmd = 00000000
Internal error: Oops: 2
CPU: 0
pc : [<c0008474>]    lr : [<c0008420>]
sp : c0119fbc  ip : c0119f78  fp : c0119fe0
r10: c011a88c  r9 : 6901b115  r8 : 00000006
r7 : c011a88c  r6 : 600000d3  r5 : 00040000  r4 : 0000002a
r3 : 0000002a  r2 : 00000007  r1 : c0121f44  r0 : ffffffff
Flags: nZCv  IRQs on  FIQs off  Mode SVC_32  Segment kernel
Control: C000517D  Table: C000517D  DAC: 0000001D
Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c0119000)
Stack: invalid kernel stack pointer c0119fbc
Backtrace: invalid frame pointer c0119fe0
Code: pc not in code space
Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!
In idle task - not syncing

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From: Nicolas Pitre <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 11:22:20 -0400 (EDT)

> What does this message mean?

Well... It means that something very nasty happened.

Could you retry with a more recent patch before investigating it further?

Nicolas