pppd was trying to open /dev/ttyS0 (persist & maxfail 0, etc.), but
I had not created alias for it....
Jul 12 01:29:19 finwe pppd[643]: Failed to open /dev/ttyS0: No such device
...so I manually loaded 8250 and:
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ IRQ sharing disabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000014
printing eip:
d08c6b21
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0000 [#1]
CPU: 0
EIP: 0060:[_end+274047177/1070142888] Not tainted
EFLAGS: 00010282
EIP is at uart_close+0x11/0x200 [core]
eax: d08c6b10 ebx: cbdfe000 ecx: 00000000 edx: cee66000
esi: cbbe6600 edi: 00000000 ebp: cbdfe000 esp: cec79e58
ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Process pppd (pid: 643, threadinfo=cec78000 task=c139f980)
Stack: 00000000 c01bb9d5 ffffffff cbbe6600 00000000 cbdfe000 cbbe6600 00000001
00000000 c01bb4c1 cbdfe000 cbbe6600 00000000 d08c9bc0 c010822c d08c9bc0
00000000 00000004 d08c84a6 d08b7b8e 00000001 00000000 00000004 00000000
Call Trace:
[tty_fasync+133/320] tty_fasync+0x85/0x140
[release_dev+1777/1840] release_dev+0x6f1/0x730
[__down_failed+8/12] __down_failed+0x8/0xc
[_end+274053710/1070142888] .text.lock.core+0xcd/0x1a5 [core]
[_end+274049152/1070142888] uart_open+0x58/0x160 [core]
[tty_open+300/880] tty_open+0x12c/0x370
[chrdev_open+242/544] chrdev_open+0xf2/0x220
[dentry_open+336/528] dentry_open+0x150/0x210
[filp_open+104/112] filp_open+0x68/0x70
[sys_open+91/144] sys_open+0x5b/0x90
[syscall_call+7/11] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Code: 8b 47 14 89 44 24 10 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 8b 00 8b 40 14 85
ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Linux finwe 2.5.75 #1 Fri Jul 11 01:02:39 CEST 2003 i686 GNU/Linux
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 11
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1300MHz
stepping : 1
cpu MHz : 1305.846
cache size : 256 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 2
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips : 2580.48
Gnu C 3.3.1
Gnu make 3.80
util-linux 2.11z
mount 2.11z
e2fsprogs 1.34-WIP
jfsutils 1.1.1
xfsprogs 2.4.12
PPP 2.4.1
Linux C Library 2.3.1
Dynamic linker (ldd) 2.3.1
Procps 3.1.9
Net-tools 1.60
Console-tools 0.2.3
Sh-utils 5.0
config: http://zeus.polsl.gliwice.pl/~jfk/kernel/2.5.75/config1
jk :)
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