From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261566AbTJHOaH (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:30:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261613AbTJHOaH (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:30:07 -0400 Received: from mailhost.cs.auc.dk ([130.225.194.6]:58296 "EHLO mailhost.cs.auc.dk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261566AbTJHOaE (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Oct 2003 10:30:04 -0400 Subject: Unable to handle kernel... From: Emmanuel Fleury To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Aalborg University -- Computer Science Dept. Message-Id: <1065623368.15369.35.camel@rade7.s.cs.auc.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 08 Oct 2003 16:29:28 +0200 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I am pretty new in coding for the kernel and I was wandering what is the _deep_ meaning of: "Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address XXXX" and "Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference". If somebody could explain this to me, I would be very pleased ! :) PS: I know already how to trace an Oops by using ksymoops. But these two errors are puzzling me and I would like to understand more about it. Regards -- Emmanuel The tradition of open science has done more to build the modern economy than Microsoft ever will. -- Linus Torvalds