lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2001]   [Jun]   [7]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: 2.4.5-ac9 console NULL pointer pointer dereference
On Thu, Jun 07, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:

> From: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
>
> this happend with 2.4.5-ac9 with serial console on i386.
>
> Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference0x02f8 (irq = 3) at virtual address 00000004
> Oops: 0000
> >>EIP; c01967c7 <poke_blanked_console+1b/5c> <=====
>
> Sounds like this should help:
>
> --- console.c~ Fri Feb 9 20:30:22 2001
> +++ console.c Thu Jun 7 16:28:59 2001
> @@ -2684,7 +2684,7 @@
> void poke_blanked_console(void)
> {
> del_timer(&console_timer); /* Can't use _sync here: called from tasklet */
> - if (vt_cons[fg_console]->vc_mode == KD_GRAPHICS)
> + if (!vt_cons[fg_console] || vt_cons[fg_console]->vc_mode == KD_GRAPHICS)
> return;
> if (console_blanked) {
> console_timer.function = unblank_screen_t;

That was ok, but:
....
INIT: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "2" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "3" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "5" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "6" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
INIT: Id "4" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes


Welcome to SuSE Linux 7.2 (i386) - Kernel 2.4.5-ac9 (ttyS0).
....



Hmm, perhaps a config option...
So, lets try usb printing now.





Gruss Olaf

--
$ man clone

BUGS
Main feature not yet implemented...
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2005-03-22 12:55    [W:0.030 / U:0.312 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site