Description of problem:
Kernel oops and machine freeze after about five weeks of uptime.
The same machine reached more than 120 days of uptime
with 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kernel-2.4.22-1.2129.nptl

How reproducible:
unknown

Steps to Reproduce:
unknown
  
Actual results:
machine freeze

Expected results:
no freeze

Additional info:
It's likely that the machine was doing a big tar.gz 
when it crashed, I found a partially done backup this
morning.

Please ask if you feel more information would be useful.

[root@pc log]# rpm -q glibc
glibc-2.3.2-101.1
[root@pc log]# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (different
version?) (rev c1)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1
(rev c1)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4
(rev c1)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3
(rev c1)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2
(rev c1)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5
(rev c1)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
Controller (rev a1)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce
MultiMedia audio [Via VT82C686B] (rev a2)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge
(rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:0d.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): nVidia Corporation nForce2 FireWire
(IEEE 1394) Controller (rev a3)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev c1)
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3C920B-EMB Integrated
Fast Ethernet Controller (rev 40)
03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP
[Radeon 9600]
03:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon
9600] (Secondary)


/var/log/messages
Apr 18 04:04:30 pc syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000004
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:  printing eip:
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: c013a44a
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: *pde = 00000000
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Oops: 0002
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat joydev
snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm
snd-timer gameport snd-page-alloc snd-mpu401-uart snd-ra
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: CPU:    0
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c013a44a>]    Not tainted
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: EIP is at refill_inactive [kernel] 0x7a
(2.4.22-1.2129.nptl)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: c210b984   ecx:
c210b9a0   edx: 00000000
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: 00000012   ebp:
00000002   esp: f3e95da8
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: ds: 0068   es: 0068   ss: 0068
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc su(pam_unix)[9689]: session opened for user news by
(uid=0)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Process updatedb (pid: 9676,
stackpage=f3e95000)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Stack: 0000000a 000001f0 00000020 00000006
c013a511 00000013 00000000 c033a810 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc su(pam_unix)[9689]: session closed for user news
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:        00000006 000001f0 c033a810 00000000
c013a5a6 00000020 f3e94000 00000120 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:        c033a810 c013b048 00000000 00000000
c033a97c 00000120 00000010 00000000 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Call Trace:   [<c013a511>] shrink_caches
[kernel] 0x51 (0xf3e95db8)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013a5a6>] try_to_free_pages_zone
[kernel] 0x36 (0xf3e95dd8)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013b048>] balance_classzone [kernel]
0x58 (0xf3e95dec)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013b2c9>] __alloc_pages [kernel] 0xe9
(0xf3e95e08)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013b37c>] __get_free_pages [kernel] 0x1c
(0xf3e95e30)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0139096>] kmem_cache_grow [kernel] 0xa6
(0xf3e95e34)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c01392c9>] kmem_cache_alloc [kernel] 0xc9
(0xf3e95e5c)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0157dc6>] alloc_inode [kernel] 0x106
(0xf3e95e78)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0158fbb>] get_new_inode [kernel] 0x1b
(0xf3e95e94)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0159290>] iget4_locked [kernel] 0xe0
(0xf3e95ebc)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<f8822cfd>] ext3_lookup [ext3] 0x7d
(0xf3e95ee4)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c014d857>] real_lookup [kernel] 0xc7
(0xf3e95f08)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c014e0b3>] link_path_walk [kernel] 0x703
(0xf3e95f24)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c014e509>] path_lookup [kernel] 0x39
(0xf3e95f60)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c014e799>] __user_walk [kernel] 0x49
(0xf3e95f70)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c014a7cf>] sys_lstat64 [kernel] 0x1f
(0xf3e95f8c)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c01095f7>] system_call [kernel] 0x33
(0xf3e95fc0)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Code: 89 50 04 89 02 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00
c7 43 1c 00 00 00 00 b8 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:  <1>Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000004
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:  printing eip:
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: c013a44a
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: *pde = 1327a067
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: *pte = 00000000
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Oops: 0002
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: nls_iso8859-1 nls_cp437 vfat fat joydev
snd-pcm-oss snd-mixer-oss snd-intel8x0 snd-ac97-codec snd-pcm
snd-timer gameport snd-page-alloc snd-mpu401-uart snd-ra
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: CPU:    0
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c013a44a>]    Not tainted
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: EIP is at refill_inactive [kernel] 0x7a
(2.4.22-1.2129.nptl)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: c210b984   ecx:
c210b9a0   edx: 00000000
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: esi: 00000000   edi: 00000012   ebp:
00000002   esp: f36bfc8c
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: ds: 0068   es: 0068   ss: 0068
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Process slrnpull (pid: 9691,
stackpage=f36bf000)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Stack: 0000001f 00000070 00000020 00000006
c013a511 00000013 c01630e8 c033a810 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:        00000006 00000070 c033a810 00000000
c013a5a6 00000020 f36be000 00000120 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel:        c033a810 c013b048 00000000 00000000
c033a97c 00000120 00000010 00000000 
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: Call Trace:   [<c013a511>] shrink_caches
[kernel] 0x51 (0xf36bfc9c)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c01630e8>] padzero [kernel] 0x28 (0xf36bfca4)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013a5a6>] try_to_free_pages_zone
[kernel] 0x36 (0xf36bfcbc)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013b048>] balance_classzone [kernel]
0x58 (0xf36bfcd0)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013b2c9>] __alloc_pages [kernel] 0xe9
(0xf36bfcec)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0140a73>] alloc_bounce_page [kernel]
0x13 (0xf36bfd14)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0140bd8>] create_bounce [kernel] 0x48
(0xf36bfd20)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c01b8ad5>] __make_request [kernel] 0x7a5
(0xf36bfd40)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<f881f491>] ext3_get_block_handle [ext3]
0x201 (0xf36bfd54)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c01b8bbe>] generic_make_request [kernel]
0xde (0xf36bfd98)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0144f2f>] get_unused_buffer_head
[kernel] 0x3f (0xf36bfda8)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c01b8c7b>] submit_bh [kernel] 0x5b
(0xf36bfdc4)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0145ae3>] block_read_full_page [kernel]
0x203 (0xf36bfdec)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c013b221>] __alloc_pages [kernel] 0x41
(0xf36bfe1c)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0132be5>] add_to_page_cache_unique
[kernel] 0x45 (0xf36bfe30)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0132d0e>] page_cache_read [kernel] 0xbe
(0xf36bfe44)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<f881f540>] ext3_get_block [ext3] 0x0
(0xf36bfe4c)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0132d66>] read_cluster_nonblocking
[kernel] 0x36 (0xf36bfe6c)
Apr 18 04:08:04 pc kernel: [<c0134657>] filemap_nopage [kernel] 0x107
(0xf36bfe80)
Apr 18 09:48:46 pc syslogd 1.4.1: restart.
Apr 18 09:48:46 pc syslog: syslogd startup succeeded
Apr 18 09:48:46 pc kernel: klogd 1.4.1, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Apr 18 09:48:46 pc kernel: Linux version 2.4.22-1.2129.nptl
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Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Mon Dec 1 08:46:47 EST 2003