Re: I think this qualifies as a newbie question

[Stanislav Malyshev a.k.a Frodo]

OA>> Here's what I got from /var/log/messages :
OA>> Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: general protection: 0000

Try ksymoops (in /usr/src/linux/scripts). It should say you where the
failing code was and what it was doing. It's very hard to make sense of
this without your kernel symbol map. Read also
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt

OA>> Apr 14 21:11:49 betalfa kernel: Process shutdown (pid: 6068, process nr: 5,
OA>> stac)kpage=00291000

That's strange. What process shutdown does here??? Seems fishy to me.
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