kernel stack corruption...aiee...

[A James Lewis]

I have bios 1.21 and am also having problems, continuous SCB retries and
errors on kernels 31 and 32 but only when my scanner is connected

James


On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Tanvir Hassan wrote:

> I have a 2940AU with 1.21 bios.  I just got the Slackware 3.3 Linux and when
> I installed it I got constant kernel stack corruption errors.  So I went 
> to the web to download other kernels to see if I could get an older more
> stable kernel so I could build a newer kernel.  Well, ALL of them get 
> the kernel stack corruption!
> 
> I saw in a newsgroup that other people in the aic7xxx linux realm have gotten
> these stack corruptions, so I assume it is a buggy scsi driver.  I noticed
> that there have been several bug fixes (off by 1 memory overwrite, serious
> memory overwrite problems in aic7xxx_proc.c, etc) to the 2.0.32 kernel
> but I cannot build because my kernel has stack corruptions and cannot 
> build itself (Help! I've fallen and I can't "make zImage"! :-).
> 
> Where can I get a 2.0.32 kernel that might fix my problem?  Or are the 
> bug fixes a red herring and I have more serious problems in my computer?
> 
> TIA
> 
> --
> Tanvir
> 

James
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