Re: Sparc 20 and Kernel Oops on chmod()!
> Thanks to a spring snow storm, my Sparc 20 lost power this
> morning, crashing rather hard it appears. On reboot, everything seemed
> fine, the disks checked as expected, but nothing out of the ordinary was
> reported... Then came the line 'chmod 666 /dev/tty[p-za-e][0-9a-f]' in
> /etc/rcS.d/S55bootmisc.sh and the kernel crashed with an error that it was
> unable to deference a NULL pointer, and that chmod() had caused an 'Oops'
> to occur. There was some additional pointer information and such (like a
> face with its tongue stuck out at me :), but it was a solid kernel crash,
> and quite repeatable at that.
The information after the face is important :) That and the System.map
is required to debug this sort of thing.
Anton
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