Hello, As you can see, it's a heavily patched kernel running on the following hardware: P4, 2GB of RAM, 2x80GB SATA drives on the ICH5R chipset SATA controller: $ lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Memory Controller Hub (rev 02) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82875P Processor to AGP Controller (rev 02) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BA/CA/DB/EB PCI Bridge (rev c2) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801EB LPC Interface Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801EB Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801EB SMBus Controller (rev 02) 02:09.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27) 02:0a.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1013 02:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 1013 The software config is in short: softraid (all partitions, including /),sata,hipac packet filter,xfs on all partitions except / which has ext3. The oops happens shortly after booting the machine and results in broken raid (up to the point no raid partition mounts except for /) and, once, in slightly messed up data on /. The oops is as follows: ------- ksymoops 2.4.9 on i686 2.4.24-xfs-gr2-sata-hipac-p4-up. Options used -V (default) -k /proc/ksyms (default) -l /proc/modules (default) -o /lib/modules/2.4.24-xfs-gr2-sata-hipac-p4-up/ (default) -m /boot/System.map-2.4.24-xfs-gr2-sata-hipac-p4-up (default) Warning: You did not tell me where to find symbol information. I will assume that the log matches the kernel and modules that are running right now and I'll use the default options above for symbol resolution. If the current kernel and/or modules do not match the log, you can get more accurate output by telling me the kernel version and where to find map, modules, ksyms etc. ksymoops -h explains the options. Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address a6069a94 c01c5010 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0002 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: f7153800 ebx: f352c000 ecx: 00000079 edx: a6069a80 esi: fffffff7 edi: 00000002 ebp: 59bfec1c esp: f352df94 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process mysqld (pid: 3725, stackpage=f352d000) Stack: c01c3e85 00000003 00000022 ffffffff 00000000 f352c000 00000006 f352c000 59bfec04 00000002 59bfec1c c01935d3 00000079 00000000 00000000 59bfec04 00000002 59bfec1c 0000008c 0000002b 0000002b 0000008c 25739315 00000023 Call Trace: [] [] Code: ff 42 14 89 d0 c3 8d 76 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 8b 4c 24 04 >>EIP; c01c5010 <===== >>eax; f7153800 <_end+36d73bf8/384b6458> >>ebx; f352c000 <_end+3314c3f8/384b6458> >>esp; f352df94 <_end+3314e38c/384b6458> Trace; c01c3e85 Trace; c01935d3 Code; c01c5010 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c01c5010 <===== 0: ff 42 14 incl 0x14(%edx) <===== Code; c01c5013 3: 89 d0 mov %edx,%eax Code; c01c5015 5: c3 ret Code; c01c5016 6: 8d 76 00 lea 0x0(%esi),%esi Code; c01c5019 9: 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 lea 0x0(%edi,1),%edi Code; c01c5020 10: 8b 4c 24 04 mov 0x4(%esp,1),%ecx <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0002e476 c01c35c7 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010282 eax: f7153800 ebx: 0002e462 ecx: 00000003 edx: 0002e462 esi: f7169980 edi: f7169980 ebp: 00000004 esp: f7057e80 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process mysqld (pid: 625, stackpage=f7057000) Stack: f5e95900 f7169980 000000ff 00000078 f7169980 c01a3574 0002e462 f7169980 f7aa2c80 00000000 f7056000 00000009 c01a3c77 f7169980 00000009 f7056000 00000000 f7057f08 00000009 c01aa18c 00000009 c01aa365 00000009 00000009 Call Trace: [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] [] Code: 8b 43 14 85 c0 74 52 8b 43 10 31 ff 85 c0 74 07 8b 50 24 85 >>EIP; c01c35c7 <===== >>eax; f7153800 <_end+36d73bf8/384b6458> >>esi; f7169980 <_end+36d89d78/384b6458> >>edi; f7169980 <_end+36d89d78/384b6458> >>esp; f7057e80 <_end+36c78278/384b6458> Trace; c01a3574 Trace; c01a3c77 Trace; c01aa18c Trace; c01aa365 Trace; c019330a Trace; c01d426c Trace; c01d4070 Trace; c030c784 Trace; c0191d06 <__switch_to+26/d0> Trace; c019d925 Trace; c01a464d Trace; c0192506 Trace; c01935d3 Code; c01c35c7 00000000 <_EIP>: Code; c01c35c7 <===== 0: 8b 43 14 mov 0x14(%ebx),%eax <===== Code; c01c35ca 3: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax Code; c01c35cc 5: 74 52 je 59 <_EIP+0x59> Code; c01c35ce 7: 8b 43 10 mov 0x10(%ebx),%eax Code; c01c35d1 a: 31 ff xor %edi,%edi Code; c01c35d3 c: 85 c0 test %eax,%eax Code; c01c35d5 e: 74 07 je 17 <_EIP+0x17> Code; c01c35d7 10: 8b 50 24 mov 0x24(%eax),%edx Code; c01c35da 13: 85 00 test %eax,(%eax) 1 warning issued. Results may not be reliable. ------ In all cases, the oops is preceeded by the following line in the logs: get_unused_fd: slot 120 not NULL! The patches I used were: xfs-2.4.23-split* nf-hipac-0.8rev3 2.4.24-pre2-libata1 grsecurity-2.0-rc4-2.4.23 The full kernel config is attached. If you need more detailed information, please let me know. TIA, marek