2.5.70-mm3 had run for days on my firewall/mail/squid server without issues - Unfortunately 2.5.70-mm4 is not happy on my system - X won't start and there are oopsen in the logs - back to 2.5.70-mm3 for now Hardware: ------------- celeron 1.2 G on genuine intel motherboard 2X e100 ethernet 40 GB IDE 512 MB RAM Distro: ----------- Red Hat 9 w/ all updates config attached --------------------- Here is the relevant excerpt from the kernel log: Jun 4 00:36:35 jyro kernel: e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex Jun 4 00:36:35 jyro kernel: e100: eth1 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full duplex Jun 4 00:36:41 jyro kernel: Universal TUN/TAP device driver 1.5 (C)1999-2002 Ma xim Krasnyansky Jun 4 00:37:02 jyro kernel: ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team Jun 4 00:37:02 jyro kernel: ip_conntrack version 2.1 (4086 buckets, 32688 max) - 324 bytes per conntrack Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual a ddress dd587080 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: printing eip: Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: c0348c80 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: *pde = 00074067 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: *pte = 1d587000 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: PREEMPTDEBUG_PAGEALLOC Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: EIP is at netdev_run_todo+0xf0/0x1d0 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: dd587058 ecx: 00000000 edx : 00000000 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: dc738000 ebp: dc739efc esp : dc739ed8 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Process openvpn (pid: 702, threadinfo=dc738000 task =dd720000) Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000ffc e0950f5d dd587000 dfebb3c0 00000282 dd587058 dd587058 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: 00000000 dc739f38 e0950f33 dd587004 dd451004 00000000 00001000 dd720000 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: dd9e90f8 dc739f58 dc738000 00000286 dd587004 dd451004 dd451004 dfeaa26c Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Call Trace: Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] tun_chr_close+0x19d/0x230 [tun] Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] tun_chr_close+0x173/0x230 [tun] Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] __fput+0x112/0x120 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] filp_close+0x158/0x220 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sys_socketcall+0x14b/0x270 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sys_close+0x102/0x230 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sys_munmap+0x57/0x80 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Code: 74 31 c9 b8 00 e0 ff ff 89 0d 20 d7 44 c0 21 e0 ff 48 14 8b 40 08 83 e0 08 75 53 85 db 74 3e 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 <8b> 73 28 c7 43 28 00 00 00 00 89 1c 24 e8 ee 0c 00 00 89 1c 24 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtu al address de179080 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: printing eip: Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: c0348c80 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: *pde = 00077067 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: *pte = 1e179000 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Oops: 0000 [#2] Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: PREEMPTDEBUG_PAGEALLOC Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: EIP is at netdev_run_todo+0xf0/0x1d0 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: de179058 ecx: 00000000 edx : 00000000 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: dc686000 ebp: dc687efc esp : dc687ed8 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Process openvpn (pid: 708, threadinfo=dc686000 task =dd238000) Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000ffc e0950f5d de179000 dfebb3c0 00000282 de179058 de179058 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: 00000000 dc687f38 e0950f33 de179004 df2bf004 00000000 00001000 dd238000 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: dd3240f8 dc687f58 dc686000 00000286 de179004 df2bf004 df2bf004 dfeaa26c Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Call Trace: Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] tun_chr_close+0x19d/0x230 [tun] Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] tun_chr_close+0x173/0x230 [tun] Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] __fput+0x112/0x120 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] filp_close+0x158/0x220 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sys_socketcall+0x14b/0x270 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sys_close+0x102/0x230 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sys_munmap+0x57/0x80 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: [] sysenter_past_esp+0x52/0x71 Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Jun 4 00:38:59 jyro kernel: Code: 74 31 c9 b8 00 e0 ff ff 89 0d 20 d7 44 c0 21 e0 ff 48 14 8b 40 08 83 e0 08 75 53 85 db 74 3e 8d b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 <8b> 73 28 c7 43 28 00 00 00 00 89 1c 24 e8 ee 0c 00 00 89 1c 24