I also found this in kern.log. The system is unstable, few reboots were needed in the last three hours and debian package management utilities and even other binaries keep segfaulting from time to time (I don't know if it's the kernel to blame for this or just the /var/lib/dpkg/status or /var/lib/dpkg/available files which were corrupted after the kernel bug was hit).
Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950230] ------------[ cut here ]------------ Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950236] kernel BUG at mm/slab.c:3008! Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950239] invalid opcode: 0000 [1] SMP Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950241] CPU 1 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950243] Modules linked in: fglrx(P) ipv6 ppdev lp nls_utf8 nls_cp437 vfat fat nls_base deflate zlib_deflate zlib_inflate ctr twofish twofish_common camellia serpent blowfish des_generic cbc aes_x86_64 aes_generic xcbc sha256_generic sha1_generic crypto_null crypto_blkcipher af_key fuse snd_hda_intel snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd button k8temp i2c_nforce2 soundcore snd_page_alloc i2c_core psmouse serio_raw parport_pc parport evdev pcspkr reiserfs sg sd_mod sr_mod cdrom ide_pci_generic amd74xx 8139cp ide_core floppy sata_nv ata_generic libata scsi_mod dock forcedeth 8139too mii ehci_hcd ohci_hcd thermal processor fan thermal_sys Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950282] Pid: 3056, comm: juk Tainted: P 2.6.26-1-amd64 #1 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950285] RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff80295bc7>] [<ffffffff80295bc7>] cache_alloc_refill+0xfa/0x20c Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950292] RSP: 0018:ffff81002c4a5c78 EFLAGS: 00010012 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950294] RAX: 000000000002d1b0 RBX: 0000000000000296 RCX: 0000000000000011 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950296] RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: 0000000000000000 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950298] RBP: ffff81000f5e6000 R08: ffff81003f9f7c00 R09: ffff81003f82e000 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950301] R10: 00730063006f0064 R11: ffffffff802f1cd5 R12: ffff81003f825b40 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950303] R13: ffff81003f9f7c00 R14: 000000000000003c R15: ffff81003f82a9c0 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950306] FS: 00007f82f0562780(0000) GS:ffff81003f9fb9c0(0000) knlGS:000000007eb92b90 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950308] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950310] CR2: 00007f47648c6000 CR3: 000000002c489000 CR4: 00000000000006e0 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950312] DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950314] DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950317] Process juk (pid: 3056, threadinfo ffff81002c4a4000, task ffff81003da880c0) Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950319] Stack: 00000000000000d0 0000000000000296 ffff81003f82a9c0 00000000000000d0 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950323] 0000000000000000 ffff81002c4a5eb8 ffff81002c4a5d98 ffffffff80295e81 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950327] fffffffffffffffe ffff81000f5ef3c0 ffff81002c4a5d98 ffffffff802ab14d Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950331] Call Trace: Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950338] [<ffffffff80295e81>] ? kmem_cache_alloc+0x78/0xf6 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950342] [<ffffffff802ab14d>] ? d_alloc+0x24/0x1a8 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950348] [<ffffffff802a19a9>] ? do_lookup+0xb2/0x1c1 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950355] [<ffffffff802a3b2c>] ? __link_path_walk+0x87a/0xd05 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950366] [<ffffffffa02c8393>] ? :fat:__fat_readdir+0x8fe/0x912 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950374] [<ffffffff802a3ffd>] ? path_walk+0x46/0x8b Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950380] [<ffffffff802a4329>] ? do_path_lookup+0x158/0x1cf Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950383] [<ffffffff802a3134>] ? getname+0x140/0x1a7 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950388] [<ffffffff802a4c98>] ? __user_walk_fd+0x37/0x4c Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950394] [<ffffffff80299a48>] ? sys_faccessat+0xbc/0x186 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950399] [<ffffffff802b0343>] ? mnt_drop_write+0x25/0xdd Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950403] [<ffffffff802a68c5>] ? vfs_readdir+0x92/0xa7 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950409] [<ffffffff802a6b32>] ? sys_getdents+0xaf/0xbd Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950415] [<ffffffff8020be9a>] ? system_call_after_swapgs+0x8a/0x8f Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950422] Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950423] Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950424] Code: e5 75 1c 49 8b 6c 24 20 49 8d 44 24 20 41 c7 44 24 60 01 00 00 00 48 39 c5 0f 84 a4 00 00 00 8b 45 20 41 3b 87 18 01 00 00 72 24 <0f> 0b eb fe 41 8b 5d 00 8b 54 24 04 48 89 ee 4c 89 ff e8 7f f0 Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950447] RIP [<ffffffff80295bc7>] cache_alloc_refill+0xfa/0x20c Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950450] RSP <ffff81002c4a5c78> Sep 10 20:54:44 bogdanflorin kernel: [ 219.950456] ---[ end trace f3e58d718c6d66a7 ]--- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". 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