(my apologies if this is a duplicate. Verizon has been losing or delaying my mail, and refuses to address the problem until I switch from mutt (or telnet to port 25) to Outlook Express.)
My kernel, on an Athlon XP system: Linux version 2.6.21.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.1) #1 Sun Apr 29 16:13:06 EDT 2007 This is repeatable 2 out of 2 times, during boot. It did not happen in 2.6.20-mm2. The BUG (apologies for the linewrapping): ------------------------------------------------------------------- BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000001c0 printing eip: c03ebe1a *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: ppp_synctty ppp_async crc_ccitt ppp_generic slhc netconsole r128 drm softdog keyspan_pda usbserial sch_tbf raw1 394 dv1394 ohci1394 ieee1394 snd_ice1712 snd_ice17xx_ak4xxx snd_ak4xxx_adda snd_cs8427 snd_i2c snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi usbnet snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus ipt_tos ipt_owner iptable_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 ipt_MASQUERADE nf_nat nf_conntrack nfnetlink ipt_TOS iptable_filter iptable_mangle ip_tables x_tables 8139too sis900 sis5595 hwmon i2c_isa i2c_core sis_agp agpgart ide_scsi CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c03ebe1a>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010212 (2.6.21.1 #1) EIP is at netif_rx+0x7/0xec eax: 00000000 ebx: f5e3e600 ecx: 0000aa12 edx: 000012aa esi: f5e3e600 edi: 00800000 ebp: 000000ba esp: c0697f84 ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0033 ss: 0068 Process httpd (pid: 3808, ti=c0697000 task=f14bb550 task.ti=f14be000) Stack: f5e3e600 f5da0b40 f8911e5e ffffffff 00000086 c0709340 00000296 0000d410 f5da0800 f5da0b40 00000028 0000d400 00000009 f5e3e600 0000000f 00000000 0000d400 00000000 f2150d60 00000000 00000000 00000014 c0136a5e c0637480 Call Trace: [<f8911e5e>] sis900_interrupt+0x240/0x59e [sis900] [<c0136a5e>] handle_IRQ_event+0x1a/0x3f [<c013766c>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x0/0x77 [<c01376bd>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0x51/0x77 [<c01069d7>] do_IRQ+0xa5/0xca [<c0158d2a>] do_path_lookup+0x146/0x161 [<c0157147>] generic_permission+0x55/0xca [<c01054bf>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x28 [<c0138675>] find_get_page+0x21/0x22 [<c013a6a2>] filemap_nopage+0x98/0x2af [<c015065c>] __dentry_open+0xd4/0x160 [<c014249a>] __handle_mm_fault+0x13a/0x79c [<c0478cc0>] do_page_fault+0x20d/0x4d1 [<c0478ab3>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4d1 [<c0477914>] error_code+0x74/0x7c ======================= Code: 82 8a 00 00 00 f6 c4 01 0f 85 d1 fd ff ff e9 e2 fd ff ff 31 db e9 ee fe ff ff 83 c4 14 89 d8 5b 5e 5f 5d 8b 40 <8b> c0 01 00 c0 74 83 78 0c 75 83 08 00 74 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/