From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261180AbTFTFBU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:01:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262257AbTFTFBU (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:01:20 -0400 Received: from mail.wavecomputers.net ([208.18.50.6]:21263 "EHLO teamorb.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261180AbTFTFAz (ORCPT ); Fri, 20 Jun 2003 01:00:55 -0400 Message-ID: <005501c336ea$cc5733e0$0106a8c0@Laptop> Reply-To: "Greg Thompson" From: "Greg Thompson" To: Subject: Error repeating endlessly in the log Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2003 00:14:17 -0500 Organization: Grinc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi group, Please excuse my ignorance, but I can not find a useful article about this on the web. I'm definitely no kernel expert, so I figured I'd post to this group about a strange error I just started seeing on my Linux machine today for no apparent reason (meaning, I didn't do anything odd that would logically make the problem happen). When I go to an event viewer, the following (copied and pasted below) is constantly being written to the log. What is this and how would one go about fixing it? I didn't do anything except reboot and now all of a sudden it is doing this. Nothing seems messed up or anything but obviously something is very wrong here...its writing thousands of log entries per minute! The following is a snippit of the log; any help on this matter would be MUCH appreciated...this is a very important computer (yes, it is an SMP machine) please CC or send me any replies directly to greg@grinc.org: 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel cfb6ef35 00000a3a 00000020 c21e0000 c0109003 0000000b bfffc85c cfb6d99c 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Stack: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00000000 00000013 00000282 bffffde4 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Process netserv (pid: 30409, stackpage=c21e1000) 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel esi: c0109003 edi: 0000000b ebp: c21e1fb8 esp: c21e1f80 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel eax: bffffde4 ebx: c21e0000 ecx: c1312000 edx: 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel EFLAGS: 00010202 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel EIP: 0010: [serial:__insmod_serial_O/lib/modules/2.4.19-x1-smp/kernel/drivers/+- 15062950/96] Tainted: P 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel CPU: 0 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Oops: 0000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel cfb6d85a 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel printing eip: 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Code: 8a 02 84 c0 75 ef e8 9c ec ff ff 89 c2 80 3a 00 0f 84 bb 00 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Call Trace: [system_call+51/64] 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Call Trace: [<0b bfffc85c cfb6d99c 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel cfb6ef35 00000a3a 00000020 c21e0000 c0109003 0000000b bfffc85c cfb6d99c 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Stack: ffffffff ffffffff ffffffff 00000000 00000013 00000282 bffffde4 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Process netserv (pid: 30316, stackpage=c21e1000) 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel esi: c0109003 edi: 0000000b ebp: c21e1fb8 esp: c21e1f80 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel eax: bffffde4 ebx: c21e0000 ecx: c1312000 edx: 00000000 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel EFLAGS: 00010202 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel EIP: 0010: [serial:__insmod_serial_O/lib/modules/2.4.19-x1-smp/kernel/drivers/+- 15062950/96] Tainted: P 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel CPU: 1 06/19 16:43:14 Kernel Warning kernel Oops: 0000