From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933483AbZGPWch (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755052AbZGPWcg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:36 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56893 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752718AbZGPWcg (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:36 -0400 Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:33:41 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Justin Mattock Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004 Message-ID: <20090716233341.19c5aff4@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.1 (GTK+ 2.14.7; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:30:24 -0700 Justin Mattock wrote: > Seems This is the first time seeing this. > steps to recreate(not sure) What I was doing was simple > exited out of fluxbox(killed the xserver) to read some > debug messages in bash for a few minuets. Once done > pressing the powerbutton(which is a simple custom rule: > shutdown -h now no more no less) resulted in this: > > [22629.384502] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000004 > [22629.390005] IP: [] tty_ldisc_wait_idle+0x75/0xcd Fix went to Linus today At least I hope it fixed it ;) It did for me