>On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Oded Arbel wrote:
>
>>ScryMUD
>
>Does it happen to be an alpha version ? Did you read all the docs ? Does
>it say it will work on your machine ?
it's not an alpha, not even a beta. it's 1.8 something and should be stable.
I've read the docs and it should work on my machine, I also did everything
that is said I should do.
>
>>after compiling several things, it reported an error ( I don't remember
>You got a kernel oops probably. It must be in the system logs, too, so you
>can peel it out of there and email it.
Here's what I got from /var/log/messages :
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: general protection: 0000
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: CPU: 0
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: EIP: 0010:[<0001ff36>]
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: EFLAGS: 00010212
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: eax: bfffff36 ebx: 00c80698 ecx:
008d9025 edx: 00ddaffc
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: esi: 080491bc edi: 015ac79c ebp:
0012fed5 esp: 00291d18
:Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b
ss 0018
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: Process shutdown (pid: 6068, process nr: 5,
stac)kpage=00291000
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: Stack: 00291e6c fffffff8 00291e6c 00564000
00291e3c 00000000 00291d60 0000002b
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: 00291d80 080491bc 00000005 00000000
00000 000 ffffffff 00263c58 00f3af24
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: 00000003 00000000 00000000 015ac6fc
00000 000 015ae000 00000002 00000000
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: Call Trace: [<0011d116>] [<00140017>]
[<00150016>][<0012a696>] [<0012a8e2>] [<0012a906>] [<00140017>]
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: [<0010a0a3>] [<0010a91d>]
Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: Code: 00 00 44 38 22 08 00 00 00 00 4c 4c 33
08 bb 00 00 00 00 00
Can't figure out this mess.
>Yes.
That's what I thought .. ;-)
>
>Does your MUD daemon perhaps introduce a kernel device or module ? You can
>only have such drastic crashing by messing with kernel code directly.
not that I know off . it shouldn't.
>
>Did you try to switch to another console and issue commands from there ?
yes, same messages . the above dump repeats in the messages file for several
pages worth.
>saw. Find them oopses in the logs and try to make sense of them. Just out
>of curiosity.
couldn't make sense of these messages. .anyone ?
Oded
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