From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Florian Zimmermann <florian.zimmermann@gmx.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [2.6.0-test-x] Kernel Oops and pppd segfault
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 14:38:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030904143850.461467c6.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1062711059.8011.4.camel@mindfsck>
Florian Zimmermann <florian.zimmermann@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> I have posted that to linux-ppp mailing list, but
> no answer for 2 weeks now..
Slack Australians.
> and here comes the Oops when i want to start 'pppd':
>
> PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
> devfs_mk_cdev: could not append to parent for ppp
> failed to register PPP device (-17)
_devfs_append_entry("ppp") returns -EEXIST.
> Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address d1964580
> EIP is at cdev_get+0x29/0xc0
Then it looks like someone didn't handle the error right.
Please:
a) send your full .config
b) describe the exact sequence of steps which is required to make this
happen, starting from a machine reboot.
Does a simple "modprobe ppp" fail?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-04 21:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-04 21:30 Florian Zimmermann
2003-09-04 21:38 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2003-09-05 6:34 ` Florian Zimmermann
2003-09-09 20:37 ` Florian Zimmermann
2003-09-05 7:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2003-09-05 13:42 ` Florian Zimmermann
2003-09-05 20:24 ` Matthew Harrell
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