When upgrading to a newer kernel from rawhide, mainly from 2.6 to 2.6 I have seen this error twice when rebooting. This time was from .24 to .30 (both kernels still installed) It halts to here and I have to hard boot it. Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: printing eip: Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: c0240b9e Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: CPU: 0 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c0240b9e>] Not tainted Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: EIP is at vt_ioctl+0x1e/0x20c0 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: d69f7000 ecx: d5855e44 edx: bffc5dec Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: esi: 00005401 edi: d69f7000 ebp: d4625f60 esp: d5855e9c Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: Process rc (pid: 5382, threadinfo=d5854000 task=d5972960) Jan 8 11:07:06 bart init: no more processes left in this runlevel Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: Stack: d5855ec8 d618d004 000008e4 d618d004 c0162507 d7fa7854 cb5df998 d5855f20 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: 00000001 c01f381c d5972960 d7f75e3c 00000001 cb5df9ac d5855f04 d5520b1c Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: d7f75e3c d66289f0 d5972960 000008e4 00000000 d65ad8e4 d618d004 00000000 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: Call Trace: Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: [<c0162507>] pte_alloc_map+0x127/0x1c0 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: [<c01f381c>] selinux_file_ioctl+0x10c/0x370 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: [<c0179c94>] dentry_open+0x174/0x1b0 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: [<c0240b80>] vt_ioctl+0x0/0x20c0 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: [<c0239589>] tty_ioctl+0x5c9/0x6e0 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: [<c0194a35>] sys_ioctl+0xe5/0x260 Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: [<c010c72f>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: Jan 8 11:07:06 bart kernel: Code: 8b 18 89 1c 24 8b 04 9d 80 60 45 c0 89 44 24 50 e8 cd 73 00 -- Mike Chambers Madisonville, KY "It's funny until someone gets hurt...then it's hilarious!"
