Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Feb 2006 13:10:08 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [BUG GIT] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address e1380288 |
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Doug McNaught <doug@mcnaught.org> wrote: > > Marc Koschewski <marc@osknowledge.org> writes: > > > But the trace I sent didn't (directly) do any memory allocation so > > the case was clear to me. > > > > From a developers point of view I totally agree that doing some bad > > code 'here' might crash us 'there'. But the backtrace didn't look > > like this to me... > > You have no idea what might have happened a second ago, or a minute > ago, or five minutes ago. Corrupted memory is like a > time-bomb--things don't always break right away. >
Probability this bug was caused by the nvidia module: 0.1% Probability this bug was caused by USB or SCSI: 99.9%
SCSI and USB device management remain quite buggy and we need all the help we can get in finding and fixing these problems. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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