hi all, maybe it is of interest? i got this oops while doing nothing at all, the system was running, opened xorg x11 and kde 3.5.2 just in screensaver mode. regards marcel Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 000c40d4 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] printing eip: Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] b04abd5b Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] *pde = 45766067 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] *pte = 00000000 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] Modules linked in: Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] EFLAGS: 00213096 (2.6.16MWS #1) Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] <3>Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/rwsem.h:43 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] __might_sleep+0x8b/0x93 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] exit_mm+0x2a/0x13f Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] do_exit+0x160/0x336 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] do_trap+0x0/0xc1 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] do_page_fault+0x3a4/0x4ea Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4ea Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] error_code+0x4f/0x54 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x9/0x26 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] remove_wait_queue+0xf/0x34 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] poll_freewait+0x1e/0x3c Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] do_select+0x2cd/0x2d8 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] __pollwait+0x0/0x9b Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] core_sys_select+0x201/0x300 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] restore_i387_fxsave+0x77/0x82 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] sys_select+0x9d/0x161 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] sys_sigreturn+0xb5/0xdc Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] [] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] Unabl˙˙˙˙˙˙ Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] printing eip: Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] 30394953 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] *pde = 00000000 Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] Modules linked in: Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] EIP: 0060:[<30394953>] Not tainted VLI Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] EFLAGS: 00213016 (2.6.16MWS #1) Mar 31 21:55:47 [kernel] <1>Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed! Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] printing eip: Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] 00000000 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] *pde = 00000000 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] Modules linked in: Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] Not tainted VLI Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] EFLAGS: 00210083 (2.6.16MWS #1) Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] <3>Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at include/linux/rwsem.h:43 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] __might_sleep+0x8b/0x93 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] exit_mm+0x2a/0x13f Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] do_exit+0x160/0x336 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] do_trap+0x0/0xc1 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] do_page_fault+0x3a4/0x4ea Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4ea Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] error_code+0x4f/0x54 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] __wake_up_common+0x2f/0x4b Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] __wake_up+0x27/0x3b Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] sock_def_readable+0x33/0x5e Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] unix_stream_sendmsg+0x25f/0x32a Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] do_sock_write+0x8b/0x93 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] sock_aio_write+0x56/0x64 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] load_balance_newidle+0x2f/0xbe Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] find_get_page+0x1a/0x3b Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] do_sync_write+0xc0/0xf3 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] vfs_write+0x92/0x11b Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] sys_write+0x3b/0x63 Mar 31 21:55:48 [kernel] [] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] BUG: soft lockup detected on CPU#0! Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] Pid: 6694, comm: xinit Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] EIP: 0060:[] CPU: 0 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] EIP is at _spin_lock_irqsave+0x1c/0x26 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] EFLAGS: 00200286 Not tainted (2.6.16MWS #1) Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] EAX: f7caf298 EBX: f7caf298 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00200246 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00000000 EBP: f4cadbd4 DS: 007b ES: 007b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] CR0: 8005003b CR2: ffffffd5 CR3: 47cce000 CR4: 000006d0 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] __wake_up+0x17/0x3b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] sock_def_wakeup+0x30/0x3b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] unix_release_sock+0x103/0x1e6 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] unix_release+0x1c/0x1f Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] sock_release+0x14/0x8d Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] sock_close+0x2e/0x33 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] __fput+0xa8/0x156 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] filp_close+0x4c/0x55 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] close_files+0x4b/0x5b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] put_files_struct+0x14/0x3c Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] do_exit+0x195/0x336 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] do_trap+0x0/0xc1 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] do_page_fault+0x3a4/0x4ea Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4ea Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] error_code+0x4f/0x54 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] __wake_up_common+0x2f/0x4b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] __wake_up+0x27/0x3b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] sock_def_readable+0x33/0x5e Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] do_sock_write+0x8b/0x93 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] sock_aio_write+0x56/0x64 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] load_balance_newidle+0x2f/0xbe Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] find_get_page+0x1a/0x3b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] do_sync_write+0xc0/0xf3 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x3a Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] vfs_write+0x92/0x11b Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] sys_write+0x3b/0x63 Mar 31 21:55:57 [kernel] [] sysenter_past_esp+0x54/0x75