Solved: Kernel NULL pointer, over my head...

Thanks to everyone who help me solve this one... As suspected by a few of you it turned out to be duff CPU - you mean Linux can't work around that yet!! ;) Thanks again. Jamie... -- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 05:46:02 +0100 (GMT Daylight Time) From: Jamie H

Re: More!! Kernel NULL pointer, over my head... (DOH!)

Erin Jones wrote: > > are you sure this works: > gzip -d ; tar xvf myFile.tar.gz? > shouldn't it be > gzip -cd myFile.tar.gz | tar xvf - I think I have proven myself unworth of your help by producing the above, obvious to everyone, else cockup. As unworthy as I am, here I go again... As su

More!! Kernel NULL pointer, over my head...

think it can be a bad tar or gzip binary. I get the same for root and non-privileged users. thanks again. Jamie... On Tue, 1 May 2001, Jamie Harris wrote: > Morning all, > > Sorry for the big cross post but I don't have the first clue about where > to send this one. I get thi

Kernel NULL pointer, over my head...

Morning all, Sorry for the big cross post but I don't have the first clue about where to send this one. I get this from my stock 2.2.18 kernel in /var/log/syslog: May 1 05:27:36 mnemosyne kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address May 1 05:27:36 mnemo