Richard Gooch wrote: > > Pierre Rousselet writes: > > Richard Gooch wrote: > > > Indeed I do. Please Cc: me on devfs related stuff. And please apply > > > devfs-patch-v200, which fixes a stupid typo. I'd also be interested in > > > knowing the behaviour with 2.4.17-pre1. Same looking Oops with 2.4.17-pre1 as with 2.5.1-pre5. A log with devfs debug message is attached. I was able to reboot from the command line after this oops. Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 5a5a5a5e Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: c014f509 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: *pde = 00000000 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: Oops: 0002 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: CPU: 0 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: EIP: 0010:[ext2_remount+105/312] Not tainted Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: eax: 5a5a5a5a ebx: 5a5a5a5a ecx: 0000000b edx: 5a5a5a5a Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000027 ebp: 00000000 esp: c7f61f40 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: Process devfsd (pid: 129, stackpage=c7f61000) Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: Stack: 00000027 c015246c 5a5a5a5a c8282414 ffffffea 00000000 00000420 c847a800 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: c01e5280 c7e16224 5a5a5a5a 000003f9 00000000 00000000 00000001 00000000 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: c7f60000 00000000 00000000 00000000 c7f60000 c01e52ac c01e52ac c012e926 Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: Call Trace: [devfs_read_super+144/212] [sys_read+150/204] [system_call+51/56] Dec 2 10:04:31 milou kernel: Code: ff 4b 04 0f 94 c0 84 c0 0f 84 09 01 00 00 3b 1d 40 e4 20 c0 Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; 00000000 Before first symbol 0: ff 4b 04 decl 0x4(%ebx) Code; 00000002 Before first symbol 3: 0f 94 c0 sete %al Code; 00000006 Before first symbol 6: 84 c0 test %al,%al Code; 00000008 Before first symbol 8: 0f 84 09 01 00 00 je 117 <_EIP+0x117> 00000116 Before first symbol Code; 0000000e Before first symbol e: 3b 1d 40 e4 20 c0 cmp 0xc020e440,%ebx Pierre -- ------------------------------------------------ Pierre Rousselet ------------------------------------------------