Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:36:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:36:28 -0500 Received: from zikova.cvut.cz ([147.32.235.100]:26635 "EHLO zikova.cvut.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Dec 2001 12:36:11 -0500 From: "Petr Vandrovec" Organization: CC CTU Prague To: Gregoire Favre Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2001 18:35:24 MET-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at vir CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.40 Message-ID: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10 Dec 01 at 16:45, Gregoire Favre wrote: > > I try to use VMWARE 3.0 under 2.4.16 and had problems, so I try under > 2.4.17-pre7, with same results: > > ble to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 > printing eip: > Process vmnet-dhcpd (pid: 3209, stackpage=ce951000) > Stack: d6275ca0 cf7cd7e0 d9106be2 cf7cd7e0 d6275d24 ce951f50 00000000 d91053d6 Known problem. Your kernel was compiled with different gcc than your modules were. VMware 3.0 tries 'kgcc', 'egcs' and 'gcc' in this order of preferrence - so you should do 'CC=gcc vmware-config.pl' if you have kgcc/egcs installed and you compiled kernel yourself. Verify that 'cat /proc/version' and 'objdump -s -j .comment /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmmon.o' both report same gcc version. Petr Vandrovec vandrove@vc.cvut.cz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/