Messages in this thread | | | From | aidas@ixsrs4 ... | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 1997 21:06:58 -0600 (CST) | Subject | Re: Exceptions at [<c012cxxx>] (c01xxxxx) |
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On Tue, 4 Feb 1997, Murple wrote:
> Hello! > > I have found the following a few times in my logs, the most recently being > about 20 minutes ago. It may not be relevant, but it happened about 15 mins > before my X server died of a seg fault, while I was trying to read a > multi-part email with a graphical font. > > Jan 28 03:26:16 ikkles kernel: Exception at [<c012c228>] (c019e8e4) > Jan 29 17:19:56 ikkles kernel: Exception at [<c012c234>] (c01a1d34) > Jan 30 02:56:59 ikkles kernel: Exception at [<c012c234>] (c01a1d34) > Jan 31 04:42:04 ikkles kernel: Exception at [<c012c6ec>] (c01a89c4) > Jan 31 18:55:43 ikkles kernel: Exception at [<c012c6d8>] (c01a89a4) > Feb 4 03:39:56 ikkles kernel: Exception at [<c012c6d8>] (c01a8be4) > > The first of these at leaast was with kernel 2.1.23, the remainder probably > with 2.1.24 There is nothing else in the logs anywhere near these. Should > I be worrying about them?
Basically, this means that some process passed an invalid pointer to the kernel. Check out Documentation/exception.txt, and arch/i386/mm/fault.c. This really isn't much to worry about.
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