hi,
earlier i was trying to update my system when dpkg failed. when i went to check
things out, this is what i found...
/sbin/depmod somehow turned into some invalid type of file, with a ctime and atime
equal to the epoch.
first, how can i remove this file? i still need to update modutils.
second, poking on this file causes a oops.
i would be more than happy to help out with solving this issue, just let me know.
please cc me, i can only handle the digest form of this list.
thanks,
rob.
the file in question is on a reiserfs 3.6 partition mounted on /
my system:
athlon, IBM-DTLA-307045 disk,
Linux version 2.4.10 (root@cartman) (gcc version 2.95.4 20010902 (Debian prerelease))
other info:
running 'rm /sbin/depmod' seg faults because of the oops
running 'ls --full-time /sbin/depmod'
?--------- 1000 rob root 0 Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969 /sbin/depmod
running 'file /sbin/depmod'
/sbin/depmod: file: invalid mode 00.
My oops ->
ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.10. Options used
-V (default)
-k oops.syms (specified)
-l /proc/modules (default)
-o /lib/modules/2.4.10/ (default)
-m /boot/System.map-2.4.10 (default)
<1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000410
c013802d
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c013802d>]
Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386
EFLAGS: 00010202
eax: 000003e8 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000002 edx: cfbb6180
esi: cfbb6180 edi: 00000002 ebp: ce115f8c esp: ce115f28
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process cp (pid: 11035, stackpage=ce115000)
Stack: ffffffeb cfbb6180 00008202 c013813a cfbb6180 00000002 c01391cc cfbb6180
00000002 00000000 cfe33000 00008201 bffff4bc cff5fc70 00000000 00000002
cffecd40 c012d67b cfe33000 00008202 00000000 ce115f8c 00000004 cfe33000
Call Trace: [<c013813a>] [<c01391cc>] [<c012d67b>] [<c012d9d6>] [<c0106c4b>]
Code: f6 40 28 01 74 23 89 d8 25 00 f0 ff ff 66 3d 00 80 74 0c 66
>>EIP; c013802d <vfs_permission+1d/100> <=====
Trace; c013813a <permission+2a/30>
Trace; c01391cc <open_namei+2dc/500>
Trace; c012d67b <filp_open+3b/60>
Trace; c012d9d6 <sys_open+36/a0>
Trace; c0106c4b <system_call+33/38>
Code; c013802d <vfs_permission+1d/100>
00000000 <_EIP>:
Code; c013802d <vfs_permission+1d/100> <=====
0: f6 40 28 01 testb $0x1,0x28(%eax) <=====
Code; c0138031 <vfs_permission+21/100>
4: 74 23 je 29 <_EIP+0x29> c0138056 <vfs_permission+46/100>
Code; c0138033 <vfs_permission+23/100>
6: 89 d8 mov %ebx,%eax
Code; c0138035 <vfs_permission+25/100>
8: 25 00 f0 ff ff and $0xfffff000,%eax
Code; c013803a <vfs_permission+2a/100>
d: 66 3d 00 80 cmp $0x8000,%ax
Code; c013803e <vfs_permission+2e/100>
11: 74 0c je 1f <_EIP+0x1f> c013804c <vfs_permission+3c/100>
Code; c0138040 <vfs_permission+30/100>
13: 66 data16