From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751440AbWIYV07 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:26:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751439AbWIYV07 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:26:59 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:58755 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751444AbWIYV06 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Sep 2006 17:26:58 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 14:26:30 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Christian Weiske Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-dev@namesys.com, Ingo Molnar , Nick Piggin Subject: Re: 2.6.18 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 000,0000a Message-Id: <20060925142630.fb39a613.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <451821C9.6020602@cweiske.de> References: <45155915.7080107@cweiske.de> <20060923134244.e7b73826.akpm@osdl.org> <451677FE.2070409@cweiske.de> <20060924095029.0262a2c8.akpm@osdl.org> <4516C4B9.5010509@cweiske.de> <451821C9.6020602@cweiske.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.7 (GTK+ 2.8.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 20:36:57 +0200 Christian Weiske wrote: > >> I assume that you have confirmed that the machine doesn't have hardware > >> problems? Does it run some earlier kernel OK? > > The disks are both fine, they worked in other pcs without problems. The > > ide controller card also worked fine, and the motherboard is new - > > whatever you can expect with that. Maybe the combination is the problem. > > So this is definitely a hardware problem? Is it? I don't recall us having established that. Does the machine run any earlier kernel without failing? > Which component is most likely > to be the bad one? Motherboard, I guess.