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Re: general protection: 4f00



it kernel 2.0.35
Shlomi Fish wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Aug 1998, Constantin Eizner wrote:
>
> > Hi all!
> > >From time ti time I get the following message and computer stop
> > responding.
> > The last time I could not make reboot or halt or init 6 or kill -9 -1
> > It's Pentium ||, 128 MB ,9 GB SCSI + 2 GB IDE
> > It VERY important station so any help or suggestion would be kindly
> > appreciated.
> >
>
> This is one of two things:
> 1. a buffer overflow or something like that in squid, that had a deadly
> effect.
> 2. A kernel fault. (what version of the kernel are you using?)
>
> If it is a kernel fault, then there's a way to tell where it happened.
> In the kernel source tree look under /Documentation for a file called
> oops.txt or something like that, and follow its instructions to find where
> the problem happens.
>
> If it's something that has to do with squid, it can be more problematic to
> track. Can ElectricFence help? Does anybody knows of a program that
> checks for overflows (a la "BoundsChecker", which is for Windows)?
>
>         Shlomi Fish



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