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

[Marcus Brinkmann]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 04:13:17PM -0500, Neal H Walfield wrote:
> The following is the message.  If you tell me how to interpret it, I imagine
> it would be much more helpful
> 
> 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.

> 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...

Thanks,
Marcus

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