Hi On a fresh installed system, after several hours of use (1-5), kernel gives an oops error and it freezes: Apr 22 11:43:25 dana modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module sound-service-1-0 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000204 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: printing eip: Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: c015442e Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: *pde = 062f8067 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: *pte = 00000000 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Oops: 0000 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: via82cxxx_audio ac97_codec uart401 sound soundcore floppy ide-cd cdrom ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ipt_LOG binfmt_misc parport_pc lp parport tulip ipt_REJECT i Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: CPU: 0 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c015442e>] Not tainted Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: EFLAGS: 00013286 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: EIP is at __pollwait [kernel] 0x1e (2.4.22-1.2115.nptl) Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: eax: c667a5c0 ebx: c150fc40 ecx: c667a5c0 edx: 00000200 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: esi: c667a5c0 edi: 00000200 ebp: c5d5387c esp: c6e17ee8 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Process epiphany-bin (pid: 3444, stackpage=c6e17000) Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Stack: c150fc40 c667a5c0 00000003 00000008 c025b1ee c667a5c0 c5d5387c 00000200 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: c0386620 c02076dc c667a5c0 c5d53860 00000200 00000000 c01547b4 c667a5c0 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: 00000200 c6e16000 00000145 c6e16000 7fffffff 00000000 00000200 00000000 Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Call Trace: [<c025b1ee>] unix_poll [kernel] 0x2e (0xc6e17ef8) Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c02076dc>] sock_poll [kernel] 0x2c (0xc6e17f0c) Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c01547b4>] do_select [kernel] 0x204 (0xc6e17f20) Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c0154b42>] sys_select [kernel] 0x352 (0xc6e17f5c)Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c01099df>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xc6e17fc0)Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Code: 8b 5f 04 85 db 74 10 8b 4b 04 8d 83 00 10 00 00 8d 51 18 39 What could be the cause? Sometimes is shows the stack of metacity, X, instead of epiphany shown here. Thanks -- Marius Andreiana Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania http://www.galuna.ro