1] Kernel crash with cron/mail? 2] This problem happened while I was away from the computer, so I can only say what I could tell. Pine had apparently crashed the kernel, with the following output: ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address fffffff0 printing eip: FldrList P PrevMsg - PrevPage D Delete R Reply c01361deCMDS > [ViewMsg] N NextMsg Spc NextPage U Undelete F Forward *pde = 00001063 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c01361de>] EFLAGS: 00010292 eax: ffffffec ebx: c11a2ba0 ecx: c0313720 edx: 00000003 esi: ffffffec edi: c0313720 ebp: c29abf84 esp: c29abf10 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process mlock (pid: 9774, stackpage=c29ab000) Stack: c05e5000 00000000 00000000 00000001 c29aa000 00000004 c010ee04 00000001 c0313720 c05e5001 00000003 00006223 c0136a98 c05e5005 c29abf84 00000000 00000001 00000000 c05e5000 00000000 00000000 00000004 00000000 c012badf Call Trace: [<c010ee04>] [<c0136a98>] [<c012badf>] [<c012bdec>] [<c0108da3>] Code: 83 78 04 00 0f 84 a2 03 00 00 e9 84 03 00 00 8d 76 00 80 4c ----------------------------------------------------------- As only that one vc seemed to be affected, I switched to another and attempted to kill the process. Upon trying ps aux, the new console froze midway through. I tried at a different console, and it froze at the same point: root 9548 0.0 1.6 1848 796 ? S 18:38 0:00 /USR/SBIN/CRON mail 9549 0.0 2.1 2148 1008 ? S 18:38 0:00 /bin/sh -c if [ I tried 'ps 9549', and got the following: 9549 ? S 0:00 /bin/sh -c if [ -x /usr/sbin/exim -a -f /etc/exim.c Realizing the situation was probably hopeless, I rebooted the machine. However, during the process, it froze at the following line: Stopping periodic command scheduler: cron 3] crash, cron, mail, exim, pine 4] Linux version 2.4.0 (root@dominia) (gcc version 2.95.3 20001229 (prerelease)) #1 Fri Jan 5 21:43:55 EST 2001 5] Sadly, I was unable to trace the oops. 6] No script known 7] 7.1] Couldn't find this script 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 : 240.02 7.3] ppp_deflate 39616 0 (autoclean) bsd_comp 4208 0 (autoclean) ppp_async 6288 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 12992 3 (autoclean) [ppp_deflate bsd_comp ppp_async] slhc 4720 1 (autoclean) [ppp_generic] 7.4] 0000-001f : dma1 0020-003f : pic1 0040-005f : timer 0060-006f : keyboard 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 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 00100000-001ab0f9 : Kernel code 001ab0fa-001e79df : Kernel data f0000000-f01fffff : Trident Microsystems TGUI 9440 f0200000-f020ffff : Trident Microsystems TGUI 9440 ffff0000-ffffffff : reserved 7.5] Couldn't find lspci command. 7.6] No SCSI - 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/