Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: 2.1.26: kernel panic, free list corrupted | Date | Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:58:34 -0500 | From | John Gotts <> |
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In message <XFMail.970208115247.root@solfire.ludwigsburg.netsurf.de>, Meino Chr istian Cramer writes:
>I have tried to download binary files with netscape. All >files with exactly 24k (as shown by the directory listing >of the visited site) were truncated/corrupted. All other >files -- longer or shorter -- had no problems.
Strange. How reproducible is the problem?
>After closing the connection, I played around with pppstats. >It showed zero packets transfered currently -- seemed to >be normal, but why not reporting
> ioctl(SIOCGPPPSTATS): No such device ?
>(as showed after rebooting...)
>Then I do a "man pppstats" and the whole thing hanged. >Rien ne vas plus.
>After rebooting I found a
> Feb 8 11:16:17 solfire kernel: Kernel panic: Free list corrupted
>in the syslog file.
This might be related to the network statistics that have recently been added to the kernel, i.e. byte counts.
>I have also two question. Every time I reboot the kernel, I am >prompted with
> route forgot to specify route netmask.
Apparently you forgot the read the files in the Documentation directory. You need to get iproute, as specified in linux/Documentation/networking/ routing.txt.
>(netmask is set to 255.255.255.255 as shown by route during a >ppp-connection -- every time it should be 255.255.255.0 ?!?!?!? )
>Are there things wrong specified/configurated in my box?
>Another thing:
> Feb 7 18:45:06 solfire modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-4 > Feb 7 18:45:06 solfire modprobe: Can't locate module net-pf-5
>appears every time I reboot. This modules have something to do with >appletalk. I dont use that. I have removed all things which have to >do with "appletalk" from /etc/services and /etc/conf.modules. No >"appletalk" appears in my /lib/modules/2.1.26/modules.dep.
>How can I switch off these message?
Please read linux/Documentation/modules.txt, which suggests:
alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off
-- John GOTTS <jgotts@engin.umich.edu> http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~jgotts Senior, EE/Motif Programmer/SysAdmin/Linux Hacker/Amateur Radio Callsign N8QDW
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