[uClibc]oops'es after ^C and kill and halt

[Erik Andersen]

On Mon Jul 29, 2002 at 03:44:40PM +0200, Agust Karlsson wrote:
> Hi there.
> I am having a peculiar behavior of busybox after I compiled my kernel
> (linux-2.4.7-10 i386) with
> gcc-3.1 and binutils-2.12 (same if I use uClibc-0.9.12 with toolchain from
> 20020711).
> BTW I had to comment out the DISCARD section in arch/i386/vmlinux.lds.S to
> make that work.
> 
> What happens is that whenever I stop a process with ^C or kill there comes a
> kernel oops and my process dies as well as the shell.
> Does someone know (or have a guess) what is going wrong and how to fix it.
> On beforehand thanx

If you kernel is Oopsing, then it generally means your kernel or
your hardware is broken.  It is not supposed to do that.  You
realize, of course that linux-2.4.7 is now positivly ancient so
the first thing I and everyone else will suggest is to try
something current, like say Linux 2.4.19-rc3.

> 
> Here is a dump of the output:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------------------------------------------
> # ./adm //my process
> 
> <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address
> 00000038
>  printing eip:
> 40106ece

If you do not decode your oops, this is just noise.  Please read
Documentation/oops-tracing.txt in your kernel source directory.

 -Erik

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