Hello, I cannot login. ssh client hangs after entering login/password. I use webmin to view system logs and see following in the /var/log/messages Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: printing eip: Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: c01b0cb5 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: *pde = 07923067 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: *pte = 00000000 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: Oops: 0000 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: loop iptable_nat iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_state ip_conntrack ipt_REJECT iptable_filter ip_tables ppp_async ppp_generic slhc e100 e1000 microcode keybdev mou Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: CPU: 1 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c01b0cb5>] Not tainted Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: EIP is at init_dev [kernel] 0x55 (2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000500 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: da1dac00 ebp: c046cf80 esp: ccc9de80 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: Process XM_Fprot_Filter (pid: 23165, stackpage=ccc9d000) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: Stack: 00000000 ccc9c000 c1d47400 c011c94c 00000000 00000000 080bffe6 00000000 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: 00000000 080bffe6 00825000 00000000 00030002 ccc9c000 00000000 da1dac00 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: ded51280 c01b1906 00000500 ccc9dee4 c1ada008 00000000 c01678e0 df5c4b80 Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: Call Trace: [<c011c94c>] do_page_fault [kernel] 0x14c (0xccc9de8c) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c01b1906>] tty_open [kernel] 0x66 (0xccc9dec4) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c01678e0>] dput [kernel] 0x30 (0xccc9ded8) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c015d7e6>] link_path_walk [kernel] 0x816 (0xccc9deec) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c0150d88>] get_chrfops [kernel] 0x98 (0xccc9df00) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c0151041>] chrdev_open [kernel] 0x71 (0xccc9df38) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c014f7b3>] dentry_open [kernel] 0xd3 (0xccc9df54) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c014f6d8>] filp_open [kernel] 0x68 (0xccc9df70) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c014fab3>] sys_open [kernel] 0x53 (0xccc9dfa8) Apr 7 16:03:34 surnet kernel: [<c0109b27>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xccc9dfc0) Also there are many bash processes in "Running Processes" All other services work fine including httpd, mysql, xmail, syslog, etc... Kernel 2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp. System is P4 with HT. Is fedora's kernel still unstable on SMP machines? What can I do to solve this problem? P.S. Sorry for my english :-) -- Best regards, Roman mailto:roman@xxxxxxxxxxxx