From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041111 Firefox/1.0 Description of problem: The system will freeze randomly, for no real reason, no apps need to be running, computer becomes totally unresponsive, the only clue I have is a message in /var/log/messages: Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: Bad page state at free_hot_cold_page (in process 'makewhatis', page 033542a0) Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: flags:0x20000010 mapping:00000000 mapcount:34936762 count:0 Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: Backtrace: Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<02145ffb>] bad_page+0x5a/0x84 Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<021517ba>] zap_pte_range+0x1b0/0x20e Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<021468b9>] free_hot_cold_page+0x61/0xca Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<021517cb>] zap_pte_range+0x1c1/0x20e Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<0215185a>] zap_pmd_range+0x42/0x65 Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<021518b9>] unmap_page_range+0x3c/0x5f Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<021519cd>] unmap_vmas+0xf1/0x1cc Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<02156d02>] exit_mmap+0xc8/0x1f0 Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<0211d298>] mmput+0xb9/0xdc Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<02122b40>] do_exit+0x2be/0x767 Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: [<0212319b>] sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd Jan 16 17:57:12 localhost kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed (repeated 8 times at about 3 second intervals) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-2.6.9-1.667 How reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce Additional info: My best guess is that this has something to do with my SATA drive, as this error sometimes cause corruption on my SATA partitions (although my system actually runs of my IDE drive).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 114740 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.