On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Wilhelm Fitzpatrick wrote:
> However, a few hours later as I'm typing away, I glance in the top left
> corner of the screen, and I see that the GNOME panel has been overwritten
> by a "it came from the depths of the kernel" type error message that said
>
> Negative DEC -1
>
> I've only seen this once so far, never seen it before. Search engines
> haven't been terribly enlightening on this.
>
> Any idea what the kernel is trying to tell me?
Seems you found the place in the sleep code BenH hacked so that you _need_
to enable xmon debugger for a succesful compile. A grep through the source
showed this (it took a couple of tries - it actually was not a capital N
it spit out, it seems...):
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src/linux-2.4-benh$ grep -rC 'egative DEC' *
arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c- asm("sync ; isync ; mfdec
%0" : "=r" (dec) :);
arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c- if (dec < 0)
arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c: xmon_printf("negative DEC ! %d\n", dec);
arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c-
arch/ppc/kernel/idle.c- }
Maybe BenH would like some info on what you where typing when it happened
:-)
- Jonas
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