Hi, I got the following OOPS yesterday while simultaneously doing a big 'rpm -U' and a big computation (magma.exe) on an SMP i686 machine. I copied the OOPS down by hand from the console, but it should be accurate. When running ksymooops, I don't know that I reconstructed the module stack completely, but I don't believe any modules are implicated in the trace. Any suggestions would be welcome. Of particular interest is how to tell whether this is an 'off by one bit' error implicating the memory. More information about the machine is obviously available, I just thought this is the relevant part. Cheers, Wayne ksymoops 2.4.1 on i686 2.4.2. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.2/ (default) -m /boot/System.map (specified) Warning (compare_maps): ksyms_base symbol pcmcia_lookup_bus_R__ver_pcmcia_lookup_bus not found in System.map. Ignoring ksyms_base entry Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000100 c0193d4b Oops: 0000 CPU: 1 EIP: 0010:[<c0193d4b>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010202 eax: 00000040 ebx: c000077c ecx: 00000040 edx: 00000000 esi: 0000007f edi: c322fc20 ebp: 00000000 esp: d1f15f10 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process magma.exe (pid: 5487, stackpage=d1f15000) Stack: c322fe20 00001000 00000009 c02f8ea0 c0193f5c c322fe20 c3268948 00000002 d1f15f44 d1f15f44 00000020 c0119f9d c322fe20 c02f22ec c02f22ec 00000001 00000000 c011c889 c028d2c0 00000086 c010de9f d1f15fc4 d1f14000 c0119e8c Call Trace: [<c0193f5c>] [<c0119f9d>] [<c011c889>] [<c010de9f>] [<c0119e8c>] [<c0119d43>] [<c0119bcb>] [<c010aca5>] [<c01091a8>] [<c010002b>] Code: 33 1c 82 89 c8 03 47 18 21 f0 33 1c 82 89 c8 03 47 1c 21 f0 >>EIP; c0193d4b <add_entropy_words+5b/b0> <===== Trace; c0193f5c <batch_entropy_process+3c/c0> Trace; c0119f9d <__run_task_queue+5d/70> Trace; c011c889 <tqueue_bh+19/20> Trace; c010de9f <timer_interrupt+af/140> Trace; c0119e8c <bh_action+4c/b0> Trace; c0119d43 <tasklet_hi_action+53/90> Trace; c0119bcb <do_softirq+6b/a0> Trace; c010aca5 <do_IRQ+e5/f0> Trace; c01091a8 <ret_from_intr+0/20> Trace; c010002b <startup_32+2b/cb> Code; c0193d4b <add_entropy_words+5b/b0> 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c0193d4b <add_entropy_words+5b/b0> <===== 0: 33 1c 82 xor (%edx,%eax,4),%ebx <===== Code; c0193d4e <add_entropy_words+5e/b0> 3: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax Code; c0193d50 <add_entropy_words+60/b0> 5: 03 47 18 add 0x18(%edi),%eax Code; c0193d53 <add_entropy_words+63/b0> 8: 21 f0 and %esi,%eax Code; c0193d55 <add_entropy_words+65/b0> a: 33 1c 82 xor (%edx,%eax,4),%ebx Code; c0193d58 <add_entropy_words+68/b0> d: 89 c8 mov %ecx,%eax Code; c0193d5a <add_entropy_words+6a/b0> f: 03 47 1c add 0x1c(%edi),%eax Code; c0193d5d <add_entropy_words+6d/b0> 12: 21 f0 and %esi,%eax Kernel panic: Aiee, killing interrupt handler! 1 warning issued. Results may not be reliable. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/