Re: dhcpcd segfault
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> Hey guys. So after getting Rogers to hook me up, I tried two modules
> to try to talk to my Soho PCI NIC. The ne2k module didn't work, saying,
> "device or resource busy". The tulip driver silently installed, and on the
> next reboot I was greeted with this:
>
> tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
> eth0: Macronix 98715 PMAC at 0xe400, 00 80 c6 f1 68 fa, IRQ 10.
> eth0: EEPROM default media type 10baseT.
>
> So it looks like it's being found. So, being the good debian user that
> I am, I go off and do an apt-get install dhcpcd. It installs, and the
> install script asks me what interface to use. I tell it eth0, and it
> promptly segfaults.
Yes, the card was correctly detected.
> Now, I have to boot into single user mode, because otherwise the boot
> process stops after segfaulting dhcpcd, doing a little more, and then
> hangs on trying to bring up sendmail. The segfault looks like:
Sendmail 'hangs' because it's trying to access the network (which it
can't) to do a lookup on it's IP #. If you wait a minute or so everything
should continue booting.
> Unable to handle kernel NULL point dereference at virtual address 00000000
> +current->tss.cr3 = 03d63000, %cr3 = 03d63000
That's not a segmentation fault - that's a kernel oops (the Linux
equivalent to a Windows Blue Screen of Death).
What's the output of the command 'uname -a'?
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