oops in 2.4.18-26.7.xsmp system was in mid-shutdown, last line was: Shutting down FreeWnn: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference [...] kernel-smp-2.4.18-26.7.xsmp unable to reproduce... had just updated glibc to latest erratum candidate and oops occured on system shutdown, so attempting to recreate with another similar system. Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000033c printing eip: c887fa55 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 binfmt_misc nfs lockd sunrpc eepro100 usb_uhci usbcore ext3 jbd aic7xxx sd_mod scsi_mod CPU: 0 EIP: 0010:[<c887fa55>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010293 EIP is at ext3_get_inode_loc [ext3] 0x25 (2.4.18-26.7.xsmp) eax: fffffffe ebx: 00000000 ecx: c5c03500 edx: 00000000 esi: c0f44c80 edi: c449be34 ebp: c5c03500 esp: c449bda8 ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Process jserver (pid: 1005, stackpage=c449b000) Stack: 00000000 00000000 c0f44c80 c449be34 c5c03500 (apologies about missing the rest of it... hand copied oops appears incorrect beyond that portion of the stack trace. interrupts did not appear disabled, however magic sysrq keys weren't on. ) system needed a manual fsck on reboot, after another shutdown and reboot, all appears well.
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