Hardware is a Intel 440LX, with IDE disks, 96meg of memory, voodoo 2 graphics etc. Nothing remarkable. For about 3 days now, it has been oopsing at least once a day. Each time the machine eventually locks up in X. The kernel is a standard 2.2.18 linus kernel with Alsa drivers (version 0.5.10) for the onboard soundcard, a yamaha opl3-sa2. I can supply a kernel config if needed. Some sample oopses follow. Could replies be cc:d to me as I'm not on the list. Cheers, Lawrence kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000013 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 024fb000, %cr3 = 024fb000 kernel: *pde = 00000000 kernel: Oops: 0000 kernel: CPU: 0 kernel: EIP: 0010:[elf_core_dump+128/3204] kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 kernel: eax: 3d090000 ebx: c42cffff ecx: ffffffff edx: c0aa6803 kernel: esi: ffffffff edi: 0000000b ebp: c24dc000 esp: c24ddc74 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 kernel: Process xfplay (pid: 5186, process nr: 107, stackpage=c24dd000) kernel: Stack: 0000000b c24ddfc4 c42c3c60 3d090000 08048000 c5e2b3e0 40000000 c24ddee8 kernel: 00000000 c01297be 464c457f 00010101 00000000 ffffffff 00030003 00000001 kernel: 00001990 00000034 464c457f 00010101 c24dc000 00000000 00030003 00000001 kernel: Call Trace: [read_exec+194/316] [wake_up_process+58/68] [kfree_skbmem+50/64] [__kfree_skb+161/168] [tcp_clean_rtx_queue+259/300] [tcp_data_queue+212/776] [sock_def_readable+39/44] kernel: [tcp_data+239/256] [tcp_send_delayed_ack+57/92] [tcp_rcv_established+1452/1496] [wake_up_process+58/68] [wake_up_process+58/68] [kfree_skbmem+50/64] [__kfree_skb+161/168] [tcp_clean_rtx_queue+259/300] kernel: [tcp_data_queue+212/776] [sock_def_readable+39/44] [tcp_data+239/256] [tcp_send_delayed_ack+57/92] [tcp_rcv_established+1452/1496] [setup_sigcontext+234/308] [setup_frame+222/436] [send_sig_info+364/680] kernel: [kill_something_info+224/236] [do_signal+426/620] [sys_sigreturn+170/208] [signal_return+20/24] kernel: Code: 66 8b 5e 14 f6 c3 07 74 35 f6 c7 40 75 30 f7 c3 02 03 00 00 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000007 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000 kernel: *pde = 00000000 kernel: Oops: 0000 kernel: CPU: 0 kernel: EIP: 0010:[exit_mmap+86/264] kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: c42c2f20 ecx: ffffffff edx: c3980dc0 kernel: esi: ffffffff edi: c3980dc0 ebp: 00000000 esp: c24ddbac kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 kernel: Process xfplay (pid: 5186, process nr: 107, stackpage=c24dd000) kernel: Stack: 00000013 ffffffff ffffffff c0111bef c3980dc0 c3980dc0 c3980dc0 c011649f kernel: c3980dc0 c24ddc38 c24dc000 00000013 ffffffff c0108e73 c24dc000 c0108e78 kernel: 0000000b c24ddc38 c01e5e36 c01e786e 00000000 00000000 c010e0f0 c01e786e kernel: Call Trace: [mmput+27/52] [do_exit+179/620] [die+51/56] [die_if_no_fixup+0/64] [error_table+2646/9632] [error_table+9358/9632] [do_page_fault+708/944] kernel: [error_table+9358/9632] [error_code+45/52] [elf_core_dump+128/3204] [read_exec+194/316] [wake_up_process+58/68] [kfree_skbmem+50/64] [__kfree_skb+161/168] [tcp_clean_rtx_queue+259/300] kernel: [tcp_data_queue+212/776] [sock_def_readable+39/44] [tcp_data+239/256] [tcp_send_delayed_ack+57/92] [tcp_rcv_established+1452/1496] [wake_up_process+58/68] [wake_up_process+58/68] [kfree_skbmem+50/64] kernel: [__kfree_skb+161/168] [tcp_clean_rtx_queue+259/300] [tcp_data_queue+212/776] [sock_def_readable+39/44] [tcp_data+239/256] [tcp_send_delayed_ack+57/92] [tcp_rcv_established+1452/1496] [setup_sigcontext+234/308] kernel: [setup_frame+222/436] [send_sig_info+364/680] [kill_something_info+224/236] [do_signal+426/620] [sys_sigreturn+170/208] [signal_return+20/24] kernel: Code: 8b 50 08 85 d2 74 0b 55 56 53 ff d2 83 c4 0c 8b 43 28 8b 40 - 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/