2.6.8.1 -- kernel paging request?

KMcD · 09-30-2004, 07:24 AM

I configured a new 2.6.8.1 kernel for my pc, however when it should have come up with the logon request it gave the warning that the kernel could not handle the paging request. I must have forgotten to include something in the kernel but I don't know what. Any ideas?

I added in some options, specifically BSD auditing support. The warning is now:

Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual adress 00000068.

Can anyone help me out? Thanks.

fphillips · 09-30-2004, 05:52 PM

Did you have a working 2.6 config previously? If these two were your first attempts, your config probably is missing something. I've been running CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y with no problems (2.6.8.1 included), so I don't think that option is bad on that version.

What is your hardware, and please post the full oops. Does it still only occur at login time?

KMcD · 10-01-2004, 05:33 AM

the error has something to do with ALSA-OSS compatibility modules. It started to give a list of alsa-oss modules When I left these modules out of the kernel the new kernel booted fine. However, once I tried to install ALSA (leaving out the ALSA-OSS modules) the kernel would not boot again. Any thoughts?

KMcD · 10-01-2004, 07:15 AM

ok, it's working now so nevermind. I just got rid of the /usr/src/linux-2.6.8.1 folder and downloaded a new kernel source direct from kernel.org. The source I had must have been corrupt.