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[PLUG] gpm causing kernel oops?
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Has anyone ever heard of this?
I was looking at some fortunes from a different file, saving the good
ones. I had to <shift>+<PgUp> (but it wasn't the first time I'd done
this) to get a particular fortune, selected it with the mouse. Just
before that, I'd entered "cat >> ~/filename", and I was going to pasted
the text. I'd done this a few times already, but this time, as I
started to select the text, though, the kernel dumped core, giving me
something along the lines of "Kernel unable to handle virtual paging
request at" $memaddress, along with Oops output (stacks, registers,
etc. The strange thing, though, was that the system might not have been
hung, though; I didn't do anything except (instinctively) give the
machine the three-finger salute. It shut down normally, though,
switching runlevels, halting all processes, and (thankfully) unmounting
the filesystems before it rebooted. Kernel 2.2.13, gpm -v gives
"gpm-Linux 1.17.8, $Date: 1999/01/03 21:02:51 $" (and no, that's not a
prompt at the end).
got clues? (I can see a Linux ad campaign forming right there.... <g>)
Bill
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