From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040808 Firefox/0.9.3 Description of problem: I left my system for a while, when I returned it had crashed and required a reboot. I have attached the oops and trace as a separate file. If I can provide you with anything else let me know. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.8-1.521 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info: Kernel is stock apart from the following patches: - http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm3/broken-out/bio_uncopy_user-mem-leak.patch http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.8.1/2.6.8.1-mm3/broken-out/bio_uncopy_user-mem-leak-fix.patch these were essential to fix the memory leak and disk corruption when burning audio cd's with the 2.6.8.1 kernel.
Created attachment 104815 [details] Kernel oops and stack trace
please try the latest errata kernel. a large number of vm fixes are included.
I've not managed to reproduce it since. So like you say, its probably been fixed. If I come across it again, I will let you have the latest info.
I *think* I've found the cause of this bug, the terminator has gone missing from the end of my scsi cable (god knows how or where its gone). So I would guess that this is the cause of the problem. If I experience this again (with proper termination), I will reopen the bug.