On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:28:11 -0500, Chris Lidgate wrote: > Hi, > > <br>So has anybody got any ideas about > <br> > <br>a) what could be causing the problem > <br> > <br>b) why it has just started > <br> > <br>c) what to do to stop it happening again. Do you happen to mount remote Windows shares? I started having system lockups as soon as my kernel was updated to 2.6.18. This happened on 2 machines I have and there is a similar report by someone else. You might want to look at bug reports at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211672 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214622 https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4192 If you feel that your problem is related, please try posting to them. Akemi