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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.5.9 and 1.5.10 don't boot 
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On Tue, 30 Apr 2002 13:04:46 +0200, 
Dave Jones <davej@suse.de> wrote:
>On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:02:48PM -0700, Lawrence Walton wrote:
> > unable to handle kernel null pointer deference at address 00000016
> > printing EIP:
> > c0198147
> > Oops:0000
> > CPU: 0
> > EIP: 0010:[<c0198147>] not tainted
> > EFLAGS: 00010213
> > EAX: 00000000 EBX: c17p4ac0 ECX: c17fec00 EDX: 00000088
> > ESI: 00000004 EDI: 00000008 EBX: c17f4ac0 ESP: c16e7dcc
>
>This dump is useless to anyone, as the addresses need to be converted
>to symbol names. The EIP being the more important one, followed by the
>call trace.
>
>If you don't want to have to type out a whole oops to feed to ksymoops,
>you can look up the addresses in the System.map from that kernel.
>Note, there are likely to be addresses that don't resolve. For example,
>you may not find c0198147, but you will see c0198140 and c0198190. In
>this circumstance, take the lower symbol.

'ksymoops -A c0198147' is even easier.  It does the work for you.

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