Re: minicom crashes after upgrade
Miquel van Smoorenburg writes:
>
> In article <cistron.199904261423.KAA04396@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu>,
> Gopal Narayanan <gopal@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu> wrote:
> >I upgraded one of our machines to slink from hamm. The upgrade went
> >well. But after the upgrade I keep getting segmentation violations when
> >I run minicom. We use minicom to talk to another local machine through
> >the serial port. It was working fine before the upgrade. I am running
> >kernal 2.0.34.
>
> Well from the message you are including below (a kernel oops), it
> is clear that it isn't minicom that crashes, it's the kernel that
> crashes! Fortunately only minicom is killed and not the whole machine..
>
> >When I start up minicom, it is fine until I give it one keystroke, upon
> >which it segfaults. Any help will be much appreciated. Will a kernel
> >upgrade be helpful. If so what kernel should I upgrade to?
>
> Oh yes, that will probbaly help. 2.0.36 is the latest stable kernel
> in the 2.0.x series, try that one.
>
Thanks for your message. I did upgrade to 2.0.36. Still no luck. Same
problem.
>
> If you are running a recent klogd, then you'll have a decoded oops
> in /var/log/kern.log. That is more useful - this raw output isn't
>
Well here is what kern.log says about it:
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual
address c802fd98
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 0584d000, %cr3 = 0584d000
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: *pde = 00001067
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: *pte = 00000000
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Oops: 0000
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: EIP: 0010:[serial:register_serial_R3425f38c+-12
012/324]
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: eax: 0802fd98 ebx: 00000010 ecx: 06ccb434 ed
x: 06ccb400
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: esi: fffffff0 edi: 00000010 ebp: 001f91a0 es
p: 0586afa4
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 00
18
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Process minicom (pid: 370, process nr: 59, stackpa
ge=0586a000)
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Stack: 00118603 05996c0c 00000002 080499a0 bffff90
0 0010a853 00000003 bffff930
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: 00000001 00000002 080499a0 bffff900 0000000
1 080a002b 0000002b 0000002b
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: 0000002b 00000004 400b9a94 00000023 0000020
2 bffff7e8 0000002b
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Call Trace: [sys_wait4+111/840] [<080499a0>] [hand
le_signal+19/144] [<080499a0>] [<080a002b>]
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Code: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at
virtual address c802fd98
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 0584d000, %cr3 = 0584d000
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: *pde = 00001067
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: *pte = 00000000
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Oops: 0000
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: EIP: 0010:[device_not_available+48/68]
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: eax: 00000010 ebx: 0000002b ecx: 0802fd98 ed
x: 07546414
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 0586b000 ebp: 0586af68 es
p: 0586af0c
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 0010 gs: 002b ss: 00
18
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Process minicom (pid: 370, process nr: 59, stackpa
ge=0586a000)
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Stack: 001b002b 00000000 0002f000 0586af68 05996c0
c 087f0000 08800000 08000000
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: 05990018 00111bde 001b484f 0586af68 0000000
0 00111910 fffffff0 00000010
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: 001f91a0 001896fd 05912118 05dacb6c 0010aa2
4 0586af68 00000000 00000010
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Call Trace: [asc_prt_driver_conf+455/488] [<087f00
00>] [<08800000>] [serial:register_serial_R3425f38c+-208004/324] [mca_handle_nmi
_slot+114/160] [mca_configure_adapter_status+80/156] [cdrom_read_intr+165/592]
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: [do_signal+340/632] [serial:register_serial
_R3425f38c+-12012/324] [serial:register_serial_R3425f38c+-12012/324] [sys_wait4+
111/840] [<080499a0>] [handle_signal+19/144] [<080499a0>] [<080a002b>]
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Code: 64 8a 04 0e 0f a1 88 c2 81 e2 ff 00 00 00 89
54 24 10 52 68
Apr 26 14:59:31 fcrao kernel: Aiee, killing interrupt handler
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Thanks again for any help!! What now - another kernel upgrade -
maybe to 2.1.xx?
Gopal.
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Gopal Narayanan Ph #: (413) 545 0925
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University of Massachusetts e-mail: gopal@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu
Amherst MA 01003
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