Dear all,
On one of the machines here, which is more or less a clone of other linux machines, I keep getting kernel panics at times of low activity (e.g. 6 in the morning). The /var/log/messages file contains lines like: Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: general protection: 0000 Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: EIP: 0010:[dir_namei+126/296] Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: EFLAGS: 00010202 Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: eax: 0035e12e ebx: 00be6002 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00be6005 Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: esi: 00be6000 edi: 00aa5f90 ebp: 00aa5f80 esp: 00aa5f40 Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 fs: 002b gs: 002b ss: 0018 Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: Process sh (pid: 30271, process nr: 37, stackpage=00aa5000) Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: Stack: 00000000 00aa5fb4 400e3471 bffffce0 00000b8f 400e3472 00129feb 00be6000 Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: 00aa5f84 00aa5f80 0035e1f0 00aa5f90 00000000 000003ff bffffbfc 000003ff Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: 400e3471 bffffce0 0012a0e4 00be6000 00000000 00000001 00aa5fb4 bffffbfc Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: Call Trace: [_namei+43/180] [namei+44/68] [sys_newstat+39/84] [system_call+85/128] Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: Code: 74 44 8b 54 24 28 66 ff 42 7c 8d 44 24 14 50 51 56 52 e8 13 after which the computer hangs. Is this a hardware fault or some problem with BIOS config? Any help is appreciated since my knowledge of Linux stops well short of kernel internals. Alvin -- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .