Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 15 Jan 1997 03:08:30 +0200 (EET) | From | Linus Torvalds <> | Subject | Re: [2.1.21] Instant death |
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On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Aaron Tiensivu wrote: > Subject: [2.1.21] Instant death > > I did a clean compile off of the source of linux-2.1.21.tar.gz > > It'll die after this: > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly. > > Instantly.. it complains of a NULL dereference from virtual address 00000000, > in the process 'swapper'. I did not write down the specifics, but I assume > that others are going to run into this problem.
It's due to init/main.c - the "execve(execute_command.." stuff. Add a test that execve_command is non-zero before that execve and you should be ok.
Sorry for that, I never saw it on my intel machine due to the way the mappings are set up. It was obvious on the alpha, though..
Linus
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