From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0-0.99.11 i686; Nav) I was attempting to increase the number of virtual workspaces using gnomecc. I clicked on the "workspaces" tab and the system hung. (I could not ping it from other workstations, CTRL+ALT+F1-F7 didn't work, CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE to exit X, etc) Upon inspection of /var/log/message, I saw the following: Feb 3 13:32:11 bigbear pppd[13582]: secondary DNS address 209.244.0.4 Feb 3 13:34:18 bigbear kernel: kernel BUG at vmscan.c:517! Feb 3 13:34:18 bigbear kernel: invalid operand: 0000 Feb 3 13:39:54 bigbear syslogd 1.4-0: restart. The first and last lines are not relevant to the crash, I included them simply for context. As of right now I cannot reproduce the bug but will try to mimic the situation more exactly later. Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce System specs: Red Hat Linux 7.0.90 (Fisher) Athlon 1100Mhz, Asus A7V mainboard (KT133 chipset) 256M Crucial memory Intel InBusiness 10/100 Network Adapter Asus GeForce2 V7700 video card Creative Sound Blaster Live X-Gamer 5.1 PCI Audio Adaptec 2930 SCSI Adapter (all SCSI system) Kernel modules installed: Module Size Used by usb-storage 24992 0 (unused) sr_mod 14752 0 (autoclean) cdrom 27136 0 (autoclean) [sr_mod] ppp_async 6128 1 (autoclean) ppp_generic 15968 3 (autoclean) [ppp_async] NVdriver 606896 11 (autoclean) eepro100 16368 1 (autoclean) ipchains 33440 0 (unused) cpia_pp 3728 0 (autoclean) (unused) parport 24768 0 (autoclean) [cpia_pp] cpia_usb 4640 0 (unused) cpia 44080 0 [cpia_pp cpia_usb] videodev 4896 0 [cpia] usb-uhci 22176 0 (unused) usbcore 48960 1 [usb-storage cpia_usb usb-uhci] aic7xxx 120176 4 sd_mod 11264 4 scsi_mod 92240 3 [usb-storage sr_mod aic7xxx sd_mod] The only modifications from stock on this sytem are the NVidia 0.9-6 X driver & kernel module (compiled from source, installed without a hitch), and the USB-Storage module for my Sandisk drive, which works much better than in RH7. I'd be more than happy to probive additional information, just email me.
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