Yesterday, Brian Chabot gleaned this insight:
> I see 2 categories of what might have happenned:
>
> 1. Named's bad referral caused something to freeze.
Nah, I seriously, seriously doubt that. Bad referrals happen all the
time, and shouldn't ever cause a kernel panic. I suppose it's
theoretically possible, if the code that runs when a bad referral occurs
just happens to trigger a particular kernel bug, but I think that's
unlikely.
> 2. Whatever caused the kernel panic left no sign before freezing.
Well, all that gibberish should give you some idea of what it was doing
when it crashed, but I'm not a kernel hacker and I have no idea how to
read any of it.
My best guess is your CPU is dying or you have bad memory. But this just
a guess, and based on the info you gave I have nothing to base it on.
Another possibility is there's a bug in Mandrake's kernel. You could try
downloading "pristine" sources from ftp.us.kernel.org and see if that
improves the situation.
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