Can this heave something to do with the "kernel + gcc 4.1 = several problems" on LKLM ?
quoting the father of evil: "I can easily see an NMI coming in, or another interrupt, or something, and that one corrupting the stack under it because of a compiler bug (or a kernel bug that just needs a specific compiler to trigger)." $ gcc -v Using built-in specs. Target: i486-linux-gnu Configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.1 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-mpfr --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu Thread model: posix gcc version 4.1.2 20070104 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.1.1-21ubuntu5) just wondering... -- linux-image-2.6.20-3-generic in ubuntu feisty crashes shortly after boot with NMI https://launchpad.net/bugs/77829 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs