Our network was in a bad shape at the time but it shouldn't oops .. in the logs there were tons of 'lookup failure' and 'rpc timed out' messages. The kernel is from the original kernel-2.2.5-15.rpm package, so if this is a known bug and already fixed in 2.2.5-22 just forget about this :) Aug 14 04:02:32 roadkill ypbind[270]: Host name lookup failure Aug 14 04:03:01 roadkill automount[539]: attempting to mount entry /share/i386-linux-glibc2.1 Aug 14 04:03:51 roadkill automount[946]: lookup(yp): lookup for i386-linux-glibc2.1 failed: RPC failure on NIS operation Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: general protection fault: 0000 Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: CPU: 0 Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: EIP: 0010:[find_buffer+40/76] Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: 00010904 ecx: 00000301 edx: ffffffff Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: esi: 00000400 edi: 00000004 ebp: c0f56b40 esp: c08cbe6c Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: Process gawk (pid: 962, process nr: 50, stackpage=c08cb000) Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: Stack: c01259e7 00000301 00010904 00000400 c0126850 00000301 00010904 00000400 Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: 00000000 c08cbf18 00000004 c0582aa0 40014000 c1932d20 c09b0000 00000301 Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: 00000000 c0f56b40 c1932d20 00000000 c07be2c0 c013a87e c1932d20 c07be2c0 Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: Call Trace: [get_hash_table+23/36] [brw_page+332/880] [ext2_file_write+842/1288] [generic_readpage+129/144] [do_generic_file_read+1328/1508] [generic_file_read+99/124] [file_read_actor+0/80] Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: [sys_read+174/196] [system_call+52/56] Aug 14 04:04:07 roadkill kernel: Code: 8b 00 39 5a 04 75 11 39 72 08 75 0c 66 39 4a 0c 75 06 89 d0 Aug 14 04:05:12 roadkill ypbind[270]: Host name lookup failure Aug 14 04:07:52 roadkill ypbind[270]: Host name lookup failure
..forgot to mention the machine is still up without any apparent problems four days after the oops, so I guess it's not too critical