A debian stable (woody) box just crashed and after doing a full file system check and rebooting, I was able to retrive the following from syslog:
May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: kmem_free: Bad obj addr (objp=ddb25240, name=dentry_cache) May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: current->tss.cr3 = 17b6d000, %%cr3 = 17b6d000 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: *pde = 00000000 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: Oops: 0002 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: CPU: 0 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: EIP: 0010:[kmem_cache_free+337/368] May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: EFLAGS: 00010282 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: eax: 0000003e ebx: dfeef620 ecx: c81f4000 edx: 0000001a May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: esi: ddb25240 edi: 00000282 ebp: 00000000 esp: c81f5e20 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: Process mysqld (pid: 1412, process nr: 32, stackpage=c81f5000) May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: Stack: ddb25240 00000000 c1d2bb90 ddb252bc cfce7840 c0132f71 dfeef620 ddb25240 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: c81f5e78 0004805d 00000fe1 dfed1200 00000fe1 c0133ed0 fffff2f9 000006ae May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: c0229128 0004805d c0256314 dfed1200 dd31b8cc c013e9f4 c1707d20 c8b307b0 May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: Call Trace: [prune_dcache+257/308] [try_to_free_inodes+188/252] [ext2_find_entry+416/684] [grow_ inodes+32/408] [get_new_inode+185/292] [iget4+109/120] [iget+17/24] May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: [ext2_lookup+90/140] [real_lookup+77/160] [lookup_dentry+292/452] [open_namei+108/748] [f ilp_open+68/244] [sys_open+51/140] [system_call+52/56] May 13 15:19:24 cgi2 kernel: Code: c7 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 5b 5e 5f 5d 83 c4 0c c3 90 53 I have no idea what it means , but it does mention mysql and since this is stable debian I thought you would want to know about it; If you need any more info or have a fix so this does not happen again let me know please! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]