[1.] System crash killing idle task [2.] I returned home after 8 hours of disuse to find the system crashed with various jibberish on the screen. As I could get no response, I could not copy all of the information I saw, but wrote down the final lines after the screenfull of jibberish: Code: 89 10 b8 01 00 00 00 c7 43 04 00 00 00 00 c7 03 00 00 00 00 Aiee, killing interrupt handler Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task! Interrupt killer - not syncing [3.] kernel crash killing idle task [4.] Linux version 2.4.0-test12 (root@dominia) (gcc version 2.95.3 20001229 (prerelease)) #2 Mon Jan 1 13:43:25 EST 2001 [5.] I did not see an oops message. I have logged the output of ksymoops anyway, so if you need this information please notify me. [6.] No sequence of events identified [7.1.] -- Versions installed: (if some fields are empty or look -- unusual then possibly you have very old versions) Linux dominia 2.4.0-test12 #2 Mon Jan 1 13:43:25 EST 2001 i586 unknown Kernel modules 2.3.23 Gnu C 2.95.3 Gnu Make 3.79.1 Binutils 2.10.1.0.2 Linux C Library > libc.2.2 Dynamic linker ldd (GNU libc) 2.2 Procps 2.0.6 Mount 2.10q Net-tools 2.05 Console-tools 0.2.3 Sh-utils 2.0.11 Modules Loaded ppp_async ppp_generic slhc rtc [7.2.] processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 5 model : 2 model name : Pentium 75 - 200 stepping : 5 cpu MHz : 120.275 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : yes coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 1 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 bogomips : 240.03 [7.3.] ppp_async 6320 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 12928 3 (autoclean) [ppp_async] slhc 4720 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] rtc 5408 0 (autoclean) [7.4.] (/proc/iomem) 00000000-0009fbff : System RAM 0009fc00-0009ffff : System RAM 000a0000-000bffff : Video RAM area 000c0000-000c7fff : Video ROM 000f0000-000fffff : System ROM 00100000-02ffffff : System RAM 00100000-00209e1f : Kernel code 00209e20-0021b003 : Kernel data f0000000-f01fffff : Trident Microsystems TGUI 9440 f0200000-f020ffff : Trident Microsystems TGUI 9440 ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved (/proc/ioports) 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 0070-007f : rtc 0080-008f : dma page reg 00a0-00bf : pic2 00c0-00df : dma2 00f0-00ff : fpu 0170-0177 : ide1 01f0-01f7 : ide0 02f8-02ff : serial(set) 0376-0376 : ide1 03c0-03df : vga+ 03f6-03f6 : ide0 03f8-03ff : serial(set) 0cf8-0cff : PCI conf1 3000-300f : Intel Corporation 82371FB PIIX IDE [Triton I] 3000-3007 : ide0 3008-300f : ide1 [7.5.] lspci command not found, here is output of 'scanpci -vvv' pci bus 0x0 cardnum 0x00 function 0x0000: vendor 0x8086 device 0x122d Intel 82437 Triton STATUS 0x2200 COMMAND 0x0006 CLASS 0x06 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x01 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 pci bus 0x0 cardnum 0x07 function 0x0000: vendor 0x8086 device 0x122e Intel 82471 Triton STATUS 0x0280 COMMAND 0x000f CLASS 0x06 0x01 0x00 REVISION 0x02 HEADER 0x80 LATENCY 0x00 pci bus 0x0 cardnum 0x07 function 0x0001: vendor 0x8086 device 0x1230 Intel 82371 bus-master IDE controller STATUS 0x0280 COMMAND 0x0005 CLASS 0x01 0x01 0x80 REVISION 0x02 BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x20 CACHE 0x00 BASE4 0x00003001 addr 0x00003000 I/O BYTE_0 0x8000a377 BYTE_1 0x00 BYTE_2 0x806aee0 BYTE_3 0xffffffff pci bus 0x0 cardnum 0x09 function 0x0000: vendor 0x1023 device 0x9440 Trident TGUI 9440 STATUS 0x0200 COMMAND 0x0003 CLASS 0x03 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0xe3 BASE0 0xf0000000 addr 0xf0000000 MEM BASE1 0xf0200000 addr 0xf0200000 MEM MAX_LAT 0x00 MIN_GNT 0x00 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0c [7.6.] No SCSI in system [7.7.] I am unaware of any further information to look for. As you can see by the kernel information, I have compiled this kernel only a few days ago, but have been running 2.2.4-test12 for a little while longer than that. I had recompiled in an attempt to get sound working properly. This is the first time I have seen anything of this magnitude happen. Thank you, Jon Eisenstein - 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/