What the heck is a bus error?

[Jeffrey Miller]

It means that you're trying to dereference a pointer that's not a multiple
of the CPU word size.

It typically occurs for the same reason as a "segmentation fault" -- a
corrupted pointer
to a variable, or a link error -- an incompatible library or object file
version.

Same kernel version and library versions for Isildur and the netbooting
stations?

Matching kernel version and library versions between the netbooting stations
and the server they're mounting drives off of?

Jeff Miller

----- Original Message -----
From: "Lincoln Peters" <lincoln_peters at hotmail.com>
To: <talk at nblug.org>
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 5:35 PM
Subject: What the heck is a bus error?


> Well, I started up one of the netbooting workstations, and everything
worked
> fine until it ran the initscripts.  I kept getting messages from various
> programs (e.g. mount) that would die with a "Bus error".  I have no idea
> what that means, and as a result, I have no idea how to correct it?
>
> Can anyone tell me what "Bus error" means, and/or what could be causing
> these errors?  The entire client system was copied off of Isildur (my best
> standalone workstation), and except for /etc/fstab and /etc/raidtab, it is
> identical to the setup on Isildur, which works perfectly.
>
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