Re: Re: Bug#627671: gkrellm: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)

Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:27:25 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gkrellm
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On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 06:22, Stefan Gehn <[email protected]> wrote:
> A kernel NULL pointer dereference sounds more like a bug in the kernel that
> is triggered by gkrellm (a userland application has no direct access to
> kernel pointers). The "last sysfs file" suggests a problem while querying
> the pwm2 fan speed sensor.
>
> This will probably just go away by using a gkrellm that uses libsensors
> instead of directly reading sysfs contents.

Thanks Stefan for your analysis: I'll ask the user to test 2.3.5 (once
it will be available for him).

Thanks,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

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