[Openswan Users] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer -- 2.6.33 w/ |KLIPS

[Neal Murphy]

On Tuesday 26 April 2011 14:36:40 Lawrence Manning wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> I'm seeing a strange kernel panic at ipsec start on the following:
> 
> Kernel 2.6.32.26 with Ubuntu 10.4 LTS patches, Openswan 2.6.33.  Usual
> hardware, intel dual core with e1000 NICs.  Not 100% certain that the
> panic is within openswan, but it happens when it is started.  Oddly it
> seems intermittent.  Sometimes everything starts up just fine.
> 
> Using KLIPS (THANKS for the forward port to 2.6.32!)
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated. :)
> 
> Panic is as follows...

Building OpenSWAN has changed; building the ipsec module has been completely 
separated from building the kernel. In the openswan package makefile, you 
would:
  make ... programs
  make ... module

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