From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Kernel writes the following to syslog and then hangs (it still responds to ping, etc. but processes appear to be halted): Jun 22 11:56:27 kliko kernel: Page has mapping still set. This is a serious situation. However if you Jun 22 11:56:27 kliko kernel: are using the NVidia binary only module please report this bug to Jun 22 11:56:27 kliko kernel: NVidia and not to the linux kernel mailinglist. Jun 22 11:56:27 kliko kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------ Jun 22 11:56:27 kliko kernel: kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:114! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel--smp-2.4.18-24.8.0 How reproducible: Didn't try Additional info: The affected machine is an IBM 345 with two Xeon processors running with hyper-threading enabled. The kernel has been tainted with modules from VMware-GSX 2.5, but not with an NVidia module.
I guess then that this is a bug to report to vmware. Also you're using a rather old kernel with serious security holes, upgrade is strongly recommended.
Didn't anticipate that response ;-) Just for the record: I miscopied the kernel version 'rpm -q kernel' reported the oldest installed kernel. It was running smp-2.4.20-13.8. Anyway, if you don't mind I'll post a workaround/solution for the benefit of other people with the same problem, if I hear something from the VMware guys. PS. A small nitpick: shouldn't this report be labeled 'WONTFIX' rather than 'NOTABUG'. It IS a bug after all...
well it's NOTOURBUG