Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 26 Jan 1998 00:27:02 +0100 | From | Martin von Loewis <> | Subject | Buffer corruption (2.1.81) |
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When compiling a kernel, it reported an error in a file that compiled fine twenty minutes ago. When looking at the source, I see that 4 bytes are magically changed, so I suspect the buffers were corrupted. The corrupted word was at offset 13300 of the file. I'm running 2.1.81+linux-2.1.81.diff.gz. There were no syslog reports.
It might be a hardware problem, I did not run any analysis tool yet. The machine is a AMD 486 with 40MB memory, an Adaptec 2940 controller and a Teles/16.2.
If someone can recommend a procedure to analyse such problems if they occur again, please let me know. I had binaries suddenly crash with earlier kernel versions as well. After rebooting, the files were in their original state.
Regards, Martin
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