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Re: parted 1.5.4 crashes gnumach
From: |
Neal H Walfield |
Subject: |
Re: parted 1.5.4 crashes gnumach |
Date: |
Fri, 12 Oct 2001 21:28:24 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 |
>> Finally,
>> could you give a more detailed explanation of what crashing GNU Mach
>> means: are you brought to ddb, are any errors sent to the console?
>
> The error is different each time, the crash itself spurious. I am quite
> certain that random data in the kernel address space is corrupted. The
> symptoms are page faults, assertion failures and hangs in appearingly random
> places (schedular, virtual memory handler, etc).
This could be the kernel, however, I am still a bit suspicious of Parted.
>> Parted only uses the store interface; nothing terribly special.
>
> Seems that there is an access pattern that makes GNU Mach run wild.
>
> I forgot if I mentioned this in my other mail: OSKit Mach doesn't
> crash.
Ah, well, then I would not doubt that it is Mach. I guess we now have
Yet Another Nice Way to Crash GNU Mach.