Package: kernel-source-2.4.27 Version: 2.4.27-7 Followup-For: Bug #284567 Since upgrading to 2.4.27 (compiled from debian source), I've experienced frequent crashes is various programs like dpkg, feh, ... The fact my KDE background turns black after a while is probably also related to this problem.
Here's a recent entry in /var/log/syslog: Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00800008 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: printing eip: Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: c0128810 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: EIP: 0010:[__find_lock_page_helper+16/96] Not tainted Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00210206 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: eax: d3b96194 ebx: 00800000 ecx: 00800000 edx: 000000df Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: esi: d3b96194 edi: 000000df ebp: 00800000 esp: c3153e48 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: Process feh (pid: 12043, stackpage=c3153000) Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: Stack: 00000000 ce3e3938 00000001 00000001 c0133245 d3b96194 000000df c1567654 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: 00000000 00000000 d3b96200 d3b96194 d3b960e0 ce3e3938 00000001 00000001 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: c0133651 d3b960e0 000000df c3153e9c 00000001 00000000 c818f300 c0125f83 Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: Call Trace: [shmem_getpage+357/1344] [shmem_nopage+49/96] [do_no_page+99/448] [kfree_skbmem+11/96] [handle_mm_fault+82/192] Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: [do_page_fault+364/1169] [sock_recvmsg+48/192] [sock_read+126/160] [schedule+497/800] [do_page_fault+0/1169] [error_code+52/64] Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: Jan 6 19:17:25 localhost kernel: Code: 39 73 08 74 0b 8b 5b 10 eb f2 8d b6 00 00 00 00 39 7b 0c 75 I've rebooted in 2.4.26 for now to verify this is indeed a 2.4.27 issue. -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.4.26-mppe Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (charmap=ISO-8859-15) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.iso885915) Versions of packages kernel-source-2.4.27 depends on: ii binutils 2.15-5 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii bzip2 1.0.2-2 high-quality block-sorting file co ii coreutils [fileutils] 5.2.1-2 The GNU core utilities -- no debconf information
