Re: linux-2.4.21 released

["Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>]

On Sat, 14 June 2003 08:36:50 -0700, CJ wrote:
> 
> On an old Tyan Tomcat P200 running as a diskless bridge,
> we tried unpatched 2.4.21.  A few seconds after boot:
> 
> # kernel BUG at dev.c:991!
> invalid operand: 0000
> CPU:    0
> EIP:    0010:[<c02adfa3>]    Not tainted
> EFLAGS: 00010212
> eax: 00010001   ebx: c10dfda0   ecx: 36b8c947   edx: 0000002e
> esi: 0000ffff   edi: c3e7e030   ebp: c3c55800   esp: c03f5e20
> ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
> Process swapper (pid: 0, stackpage=c03f5000)
> Stack: c10dfda0 c03ad840 c3ed15c0 c02ae08a c10dfda0 00000000 00000246 
> c012c631
>        c039ae30 c10dfda0 00000000 c031346f c10dfda0 c10dfda0 c0313496 
>        c10dfda0
>        c031396b c10dfda0 c10dfda0 c3e5e000 00000000 51eb815f 00000000 
>        c3e92960
> Call Trace:    [<c02ae08a>] [<c012c631>] [<c031346f>] [<c0313496>] 
> [<c031369b>]
>   [<c03136f9>] [<c0313500>] [<c0313ea8>] [<c0314009>] [<c02ae639>] 
>   [<c0316100>]
>   [<c0316100>] [<c0314f58>] [<c02ae763>] [<c02ae88c>] [<c0109dca>] 
>   [<c01192e3>]
>   [<c0109f7c>] [<c0106e40>] [<c010c3d8>] [<c0106e40>] [<c0106e64>] 
>   [<c0106ed2>]
>   [<c0105000>]
> Code: 0f 0b df 03 e3 5a 38 c0 89 c8 c1 e1 10 25 00 00 ff ff 01 c8
>  <0>Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler!
> In interrupt handler - not syncing
> 
> Caps lock and Scroll lock blinking

Can you run that through ksymoops?
What was the last working kernel for the machine?
.config for last working kernel? (unless identical)


Jörn

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