Dear list, I am getting the same syslogd messages reminiscent of kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5 when I ran FC5 on this machine. Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: SMP Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<3d3e097f>] Tainted: P VLI Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00210246 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1) Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP is at 0x3d3e097f Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: eax: 00d80000 ebx: 79e0c108 ecx: c1384460 edx: 79c00000 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: esi: c000c108 edi: 043cf045 ebp: c2923ff0 esp: c5619dce Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Process firefox-bin (pid: 3332, ti=c5619000 task=c565f7f0 task.ti=c5619000) Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Stack: 0000c046 c3c80000 9e34c6e5 0000c561 00010000 00000000 b0940980 ae40d6dc Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: 4460d65b fe64c138 0000ffff 246c0000 b094c105 4000d6dc d0000026 0000099c Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: 9e340000 ccf8c561 ae40c6e5 ae40d65b 6990d65b ffffc046 9e30ffff 0000c561 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Call Trace: Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: ======================= Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Code: Bad EIP value. Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: [<3d3e097f>] 0x3d3e097f SS:ESP 0068:c5619dce Caught signal #2! Attempting to exit gracefully... --> Terminating on signal 15 --> Connect time 45.1 minutes. --> Disconnecting at Mon Jun 4 06:09:39 2007 and from other terminal Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: SMP Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: CPU: 0 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:13 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: 0060:[<3d3e097f>] Tainted: P VLI Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: EFLAGS: 00210246 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1) Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP is at 0x3d3e097f Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: eax: 00d80000 ebx: 79e0c108 ecx: c1384460 edx: 79c00000 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: esi: c000c108 edi: 043cf045 ebp: c2923ff0 esp: c5619dce Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Process firefox-bin (pid: 3332, ti=c5619000 task=c565f7f0 task.ti=c5619000) Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Stack: 0000c046 c3c80000 9e34c6e5 0000c561 00010000 00000000 b0940980 ae40d6dc Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: 4460d65b fe64c138 0000ffff 246c0000 b094c105 4000d6dc d0000026 0000099c Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: 9e340000 ccf8c561 ae40c6e5 ae40d65b 6990d65b ffffc046 9e30ffff 0000c561 Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Call Trace: Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: ======================= Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: Code: Bad EIP value. Message from syslogd@ at Mon Jun 4 06:09:14 2007 ... localhost kernel: EIP: [<3d3e097f>] 0x3d3e097f SS:ESP 0068:c5619dce BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 3d3e0834 printing eip: 3d3e0834 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP last sysfs file: /class/drm/card0/dev Modules linked in: via drm autofs4 hidp rfcomm l2cap bluetooth sunrpc ipv6 nf_conntrack_netbios_ns nf_conntrack_ipv4 xt_state nf_conntrack nfnetlink xt_tcpudp ipt_REJECT iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables dm_multipath parport_pc lp parport loop snd_via82xx gameport snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd 8139too serio_raw pcspkr soundcore fw_ohci 8139cp i2c_viapro fw_core i2c_core mii sr_mod cdrom floppy sg dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror dm_mod sata_via ata_generic pata_via libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbd mbcache ehci_hcd ohci_hcd uhci_hcd CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<3d3e0834>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 00010246 (2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1) EIP is at 0x3d3e0834 eax: 97a00000 ebx: dae0c10d ecx: c1384460 edx: dac0c10a esi: 6000c10d edi: 06ed7045 ebp: c598bd18 esp: c819edce ds: 007b es: 007b fs: 00d8 gs: 0000 ss: 0068 Process system-config-d (pid: 3284, ti=c819e000 task=c5844170 task.ti=c819e000) Stack: 0000c046 0da00000 ee34c55e 0000c819 00010000 00000000 c0800840 dac0c598 4460c732 fdc0c138 0000ffff 316c0000 c080c10b 8c16c598 30000014 00000860 ee340000 3764c819 dac0c55e dac0c732 6990c732 ffffc046 ee30ffff 0000c819 Call Trace: ======================= Code: Bad EIP value. EIP: [<3d3e0834>] 0x3d3e0834 SS:ESP 0068:c819edce note: system-config-d[3284] exited with preempt_count 1 BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/rwsem.c:20 in_atomic():1, irqs_disabled():0 [<c0439f26>] down_read+0x12/0x28 [<c0449366>] acct_collect+0x38/0x142 [<c0429650>] do_exit+0x1b1/0x6d3 [<c040655c>] die+0x21b/0x240 [<c060310c>] do_page_fault+0x3fe/0x4d1 [<c0602d0e>] do_page_fault+0x0/0x4d1 [<c060190c>] error_code+0x7c/0x84 ======================= This is one in Bugzilla already reported: BUG: warning at kernel/softirq.c:138/local_bh_enable() (Tainted: P ) [<c042b0cf>] local_bh_enable+0x45/0x92 [<c06002bd>] cond_resched_softirq+0x2c/0x42 [<c059adf3>] release_sock+0x4f/0x9d [<c05c7755>] tcp_recvmsg+0x8d2/0x9de [<c059a7a9>] sock_common_recvmsg+0x3e/0x54 [<c0599095>] sock_recvmsg+0xec/0x107 [<c0420bea>] enqueue_task+0x29/0x39 [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35 [<c041fab5>] __wake_up_common+0x32/0x55 [<c042ab98>] current_fs_time+0x41/0x46 [<c048644d>] file_update_time+0x22/0x6a [<c0599ef8>] sys_recvfrom+0xd7/0x12b [<c04754ee>] do_sync_write+0xc7/0x10a [<c0436e71>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x35 [<c0599f83>] sys_recv+0x37/0x3b [<c059a458>] sys_socketcall+0x19c/0x261 [<c0404f70>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= Is there an updated kernel? to at least try it and hopefully can get away from these troubles and still keep Fedora 7 on this machine. Regards, Antonio ____________________________________________________________________________________ Fussy? Opinionated? Impossible to please? Perfect. Join Yahoo!'s user panel and lay it on us. http://surveylink.yahoo.com/gmrs/yahoo_panel_invite.asp?a=7