>From what I've seen googling around to several pages, this bug has been seen before but I didn't see anyone post a solution: orion kernel: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 279s! [swapper:0] orion kernel: orion kernel: Pid: 0, comm: swapper orion kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c05382e6>] CPU: 0 orion kernel: EIP is at acpi_idle_enter_simple+0x17b/0x1f1 orion kernel: EFLAGS: 00000202 Not tainted (2.6.23.9-85.fc8 #1) orion kernel: EAX: 00000000 EBX: 0018bf91 ECX: 00000000 EDX: 00000000 orion kernel: ESI: 00000000 EDI: 00fffe6e EBP: 00e73edd DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 orion kernel: CR0: 8005003b CR2: 090eae64 CR3: 12700000 CR4: 000006d0 orion kernel: DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000 orion kernel: DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400 orion kernel: [<c05a2399>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x5c/0x7f orion kernel: [<c05a233d>] cpuidle_idle_call+0x0/0x7f orion kernel: [<c040340b>] cpu_idle+0xab/0xcc orion kernel: [<c073fa6c>] start_kernel+0x32c/0x334 orion kernel: [<c073f177>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x195 orion kernel: ======================= Is there a solution, or is this still a kernel bug??? Thanks, -- Mark C. Allman, PMP -- Allman Professional Consulting, Inc. -- www.allmanpc.com, 617-947-4263 BusinessMsg -- the secure, managed, J2EE/AJAX Enterprise IM/IC solution