From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: The console shows the following: Settings network parameters [OK] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: 12d34bdd *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 parport_pc lp parport autofs4 sunrpc uhci_hcd matroxfb_base matroxfb_DAC1064 matroxfb_accel matroxfb_Ti3026 matroxfb_g450 g450_pll matroxfb_misc snd_cs46xx snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm_snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc gameport 3c59x floppy ext3 jbd dm_mod CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<12d34bdd>] Not tainted VLI EFLAGS: 0010202 (2.6.8-1.541) EIP is at ip6_route_input+0x130/0x220 [ipv6] eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000002 edx: 12d59ec0 esi: 12d59ec0 edi 12d59 f9c ebp: 00000000 esp: 023c5f7c Process swapper (pid: 0 threadinfo=023c5000 task=0233eb80 Stack: 00000003 00000022 0fe3bbe0 0fe3bbe0 0fe3bbe0 11e18cc0 00000000 12d2d823 0fe3bbe0 12d5a278 0000dd86 022a2b1d 0fe3bbe0 11e18cc0 02404760 023c5fdc 022a2bb6 fffefffa 00000040 02404870 02404760 fffefffa 0000000b 022a2c7c Call Trace: [<12d2d823>] ipv6_rcv+0x147/0x1ad [ipv6] [<022a2b1d>] netif_receive_skb+0x1c8/0x1f5 [<022a2bb6>] process_backlog+0x6c/0xd9 [<022a2c7c>] net_rx_action+0x59/0xc1 [<02123f91>] __do_softirq+0x35/0x79 [<02108c02>] do_softirq+0x46/0x4d ========================= [<0210808b>] do_IRQ+0x2f7/0x303 [<0210403b>] default_idle+0x23/0x26 [<021166a8>] apm_cpu_idle+0xf0/0x128 [<0210408c>] cpu_idle+0x1f/0x34 [<023996af>] start_kernel+0x216/0x219 Code: 0f 85 40 ff ff ff eb e0 8b 48 34 31 db 85 c9 74 48 85 f6 89 f2 74 42 8b 42 10 39 48 34 74 36 f6 40 54 08 74 24 8b 82 8c 00 00 00 <8b> 00 39 48 34 74 15 85 db 74 11 85 c9 74 0f 8b 83 8c 00 00 00 <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.541 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot in single user mode 2. telinit 3 Additional info:
Fixed in current upstream 2.6.x
Fixed by a newer rawhide kernel, indeed.