Just executing lsof gives a segmentation fault. This is 2.5.73-mm3 and reproducable on dual p3 and single p3-800. Will try 2.5.74-mm1 now. Thanks, Jan <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c01431bd *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#4] PREEMPT SMP CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010046 EIP is at kfree+0x31/0x60 eax: 00000000 ebx: d5a8a740 ecx: 00000000 edx: c1000000 esi: 00000100 edi: 00000206 ebp: d7fd8f00 esp: c4c0ff40 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process lsof (pid: 7808, threadinfo=c4c0e000 task=d7cfd310) Stack: d5a8a740 d29bf300 d745b210 c017528f 00000100 d29bf300 d29bf300 d745b210 c0158207 d745b210 d29bf300 d29bf300 00000000 d1451100 d29bf300 d6fd0080 c01581cc c0156d00 d29bf300 d1451100 d29bf300 d1451100 d1451100 c4c0e000 Call Trace: [] seq_release_private+0x17/0x2c [] __fput+0x37/0xf4 [] fput+0x14/0x18 [] filp_close+0x50/0x5c [] sys_close+0x7b/0xb0 [] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 10 85 f6 74 4f 9c 5f fa 8b 15 58 62 3d c0 8d 86 00 00 00 40 c1 e8 0c 8d 04 80 8b 4c c2 08 b8 00 e0 ff ff 21 e0 8b 40 10 c1 e0 02 <8b> 1c 08 8b 13 3b 53 04 73 09 8d 43 10 89 34 90 eb 13 90 53 51