Description of problem: Hangs almost every night, only at night when load is low. Same result for SMP and non SMP kernel. Happy to supply more details. System dies and all services such as ssh. Can not log in at console. Mb is Gigabyte 6BXDU, dual PIII 500Mhz, 768M Ram, Aic7xxx(unused), ide-scsi loaded. These run at approx hang time: 01 2 * * * mv -f /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-queue.log /var/spool/qmailscan/qmail-queue.log.1 05 2 * * * mv -f /home/spamd/.razor/razor-agent.log /home/spamd/.razor/razor-agent.log.1 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.20-20.7smp and 2.4.20-20.7 How reproducible: Almost every night Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: 1157 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000017c 1158 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: printing eip: 1159 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: c013acc0 1160 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: *pde = 00000000 1161 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: Oops: 0000 1162 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: ipt_REJECT ipt_state ipt_LOG ip_conntrack_ftp iptable_nat ip_conntrack iptable_filter ip_tables 3c59x ide-scsi ide-cd cdrom usb-uhci usbcore ext3 jbd aic7xxx 1163 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: CPU: 0 1164 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: EIP: 0010:[page_referenced+320/704] Not tainted 1165 Jan 2 02:01:57 nickel kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c013acc0>] Not tainted See attachment for more.
Created attachment 96741 [details] snips from /var/log/messages
Try the latest errata kernel. If that doesn't fix your problem, you're out of luck, as RHL 7.2 is end of life'd since Jan 1st.