Hi folks, I got the following oops right upon rebooting as killall5 attempted to kill off processes. OS is 2.4.0-test8pre2/vanilla. The decoded oops follows: Regards, Udo ksymoops 2.3.4 on i686 2.4.0-test8. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.0-test8/ (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.0-test8 (specified) Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010: [<c0113ed8>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010206 eax: 00000000 ebx: 0000000f ecx: cfbf93dc edx: cfbf9004 esi: c9925f40 edi: 080498f4 ebp: c14e0544 esp: c9925ec4 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process killall5 (pid: 787, stackpage=c9925000) Stack: c9925f40 0000000f 080498f4 0000000f c011400d 0000000f c9925f40 c14e0544 c9925f40 0000000f 080498f4 bffffd88 c011434d 0000000f c9925f40 cffe0000 00000001 00000313 c0114400 0000000f c9925f40 00000001 00000001 00000313 Call Trace: [<c011400d>] [<c011434d>] [<c0114400>] [<c0114bed>] [<c0144dcd>] [<c013bc30>] [<c012ed20>] [<c012ed61>] [<c012eda2>] [<c012df0e>] [<c012df63>] [<c010aa2f>] Code: 89 08 89 4d 04 85 f6 74 07 83 fe 01 74 2e eb 50 89 59 04 c7 >>EIP; c0113ed8 <send_signal+48/100> <===== Trace; c011400d <send_tg_sig_info+7d/120> Trace; c011434d <kill_tg_info+4d/60> Trace; c0114400 <kill_something_info+a0/b0> Trace; c0114bed <sys_kill+4d/60> Trace; c0144dcd <proc_root_readdir+3d/50> Trace; c013bc30 <filldir+0/e0> Trace; c012ed20 <__fput+60/90> Trace; c012ed61 <_fput+11/40> Trace; c012eda2 <fput+12/20> Trace; c012df0e <filp_close+4e/60> Trace; c012df63 <sys_close+43/60> Trace; c010aa2f <system_call+33/38> Code; c0113ed8 <send_signal+48/100> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c0113ed8 <send_signal+48/100> <===== 0: 89 08 movl %ecx,(%eax) <===== Code; c0113eda <send_signal+4a/100> 2: 89 4d 04 movl %ecx,0x4(%ebp) Code; c0113edd <send_signal+4d/100> 5: 85 f6 testl %esi,%esi Code; c0113edf <send_signal+4f/100> 7: 74 07 je 10 <_EIP+0x10> c0113ee8 <send_signal+5 Code; c0113ee1 <send_signal+51/100> 9: 83 fe 01 cmpl $0x1,%esi Code; c0113ee4 <send_signal+54/100> c: 74 2e je 3c <_EIP+0x3c> c0113f14 <send_signal+8 Code; c0113ee6 <send_signal+56/100> e: eb 50 jmp 60 <_EIP+0x60> c0113f38 <send_signal+a Code; c0113ee8 <send_signal+58/100> 10: 89 59 04 movl %ebx,0x4(%ecx) Code; c0113eeb <send_signal+5b/100> 13: c7 00 00 00 00 00 movl $0x0,(%eax) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/