[Bug-hurd] Bug#71781: Bug-hurd] Bug#71781: [hurd] dh_compress causes kernel panic

[Neal H Walfield]

> > root@hurd:~/slang-1.4.1 (0)$ dh_compress -a
> > dpkg: warning, architecture `i386' not in remapping table
> > Kernel page fault at address 0x8, eip = 0x146d82
> > Kernel Page fault trap, eip 0x146d82
> 
> You can check with objdump --syms /boot/gnumach | sort
> in which function it dies.

It looks like it is in init_partition:

# objdump --syms /boot/gnumach | sort | less
00146c70 l     F .text  000000ec read_vtoc
00146d5c l     F .text  0000027e init_partition
00146fdc l     F .text  000003c1 device_open

This is with gnumach (ie not oskit)

> 
> > trapno 14: Page fault, error 00000000
> 
> For example, it could try to dereference a NULL pointer, or in some other
> way access an illegal memory address...

I have not yet checked it out.

-Neal

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Neal H Walfield
University of Massachusetts at Lowell
neal@walfield.org or nwalfiel@cs.uml.edu