From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Kernel crash spit out the following message (no idea what it means): paging request at virtual addressOct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address ffffffef Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: printing eip: Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: c01396d3 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: *pde = 00003067 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: *pte = 00000000 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Oops: 0000 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: smbfs spca50x videodev emu10k1 sound ac97_codec soundcore parport_pc lp parport binfmt_misc appletalk ipt_ttl ipt_unclean ipt_limit ipt_state iptable_mangle i Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: CPU: 0 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c01396d3>] Not tainted Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: EFLAGS: 00013286 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: EIP is at find_vma [kernel] 0x33 (2.4.20-20.9smp) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: eax: ffffffe7 ebx: 40ad0000 ecx: c037c9c0 edx: ffffffff Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: esi: da79e7c0 edi: da79e7c0 ebp: 40ad0000 esp: f7fc5f38 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Process kswapd (pid: 7, stackpage=f7fc5000) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Stack: c1229298 c9e0bb40 c014e55d da79e7c0 40ad0000 0f39d005 f71123c0 c1354a88 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: 0f39d005 00000008 f3110380 00000000 00000008 c014e735 00000000 00000000 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: f3110380 c1354a88 c1354a88 c1354aa4 c03389f8 c0338040 c01452c6 c143c5b0 Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Call Trace: [<c014e55d>] try_to_unmap_one [kernel] 0xfd (0xf7fc5f40)) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: [<c014e735>] try_to_unmap [kernel] 0xb5 (0xf7fc5f6c)) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: [<c01452c6>] launder_page [kernel] 0x836 (0xf7fc5f90)) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: [<c014652f>] rebalance_dirty_zone [kernel] 0x8f (0xf7fc5fb4)) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: [<c0146b60>] kswapd [kernel] 0x140 (0xf7fc5fd4)) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: [<c0146a20>] kswapd [kernel] 0x0 (0xf7fc5fe4)) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: [<c01073bd>] kernel_thread_helper [kernel] 0x5 (0xf7fc5ff0)) Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Oct 18 04:07:14 erizo kernel: Code: 39 58 08 76 1a 39 58 04 89 c1 76 07 8b 52 0c 85 d2 75 ea 85 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.4.20-20.9 SMP How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: The crash caused me to loose all my desktop settings.
does this still happen without the webcam driver loaded ?
The webcam driver is definitely a possible culprit, but it has only happened once, so I can't say for sure.
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