From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050224 Firefox/1.0.1 Fedora/1.0.1-1.3.1 Description of problem: System randomly locks up after running a anywhere from a few days to a week. When the system locks up, it usually responds to ping, but nothing else. A power reset is required to gain control of the system. The system always reports ' Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c' in method rb_insert_color+0xa8/0xc1. The process is always smbd. This system is setup as a samba print server. I've attached a section of the messages file with the oops. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.10-1.766_FC3smp How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start samba. Wait. Actual Results: System eventually locks up. Additional info: Current Kernel and Samba version: kernel-2.6.10-1.766_FC3.i686 samba-3.0.10-1.fc3.i386
Created attachment 111489 [details] Oops from messages file.
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