The fact that it happens at 6:25 AM tells me it's probably a cron job. In a default Debian installation, the files in /etc/cron.daily/ are run every day at 6:25 AM.
I would look there first, to try to find the process that is causing problems. -- Kevin ----- Original Message ----- From: Petr [Dingo] Dvorak To: debian-user mailing list Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 11:51 AM Subject: machine crash Hey there, Today morning my machine locked up after 8 days of flawless run, before that it went down twice always between 6 and 6:30 am, before that it ran for over 80 days since the last power outage, i can't for the life of me figure out what is going on, the message on console display said something about 'unable to handle kernels null pointer at 0x00000004'. the kernel version is 2.2.18pre21, it was installed off of official debian cd's [2000-12-07] this is what was in messages log [i stripped rest of the dates]: Jun 8 06:25:14 warlord kernel: Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[fat_clear_inode+26/36] EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: 00000000 ebx: c1336000 ecx: c1336000 edx: 00000000 esi: 00001e79 edi: c082feac ebp: c0001400 esp: c082fe70 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process find (pid: 2969, process nr: 86, stackpage=c082f000) Stack: c1336000 c10908e4 c013426d c1336000 c082feac 00022684 ffffebdb c01344da c082feac c02b67d8 00022684 c030314c c0001400 c314e08e c0145fb8 c3177e68 c1dfa290 c0134528 00000c03 c02b67d8 00022684 c030314c c0001400 c53dae80 Call Trace: [dispose_list+29/80] [try_to_free_inodes+214/252] [ext2_find_entry+416/684] [grow_inodes+32/408] [get_new_inode+185/292] [iget4+113/124] [iget+17/24] [ext2_lookup+90/140] [real_lookup+77/160] [lookup_dentry+268/428] [__namei+38/88] [sys_newlstat+13/96] [system_call+52/56] Code: 89 50 04 89 02 5b c3 8d 76 00 53 8b 5c 24 08 8b 83 90 00 00 I'm at loss here, the log from messages file looks like it had something to do with the drives and the one that was on console looked like it was null pointer, beside that i have no idea how to find out which process it was or anything, any help would be appreciated. Dingo. ).|.( '.'___'.' ' '(>~<)' ' -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-ooO-=(_)=-Ooo-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Petr [Dingo] Dvorak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Coder - Purple Dragon MUD pdragon.org port 3333 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-[ 369D93 ]=-=- Debian version 2.2.18pre21, up 9 min, 4 users, load average: 0.43 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]