"Stephen C. Tweedie" wrote: > > The fact that it always happens when the modem is on also suggests that > this is not a filesystem problem. mm.. There are known scheduling-inside-spinlock bugs in the PPP driver. Paul is working on these at present. This will cause deadlocks on SMP. Anthony seems to be running uniprocessor, but bad things could still happen. It'd be interesting to enable the local-apic-on-uniprocessor and io-apic-on-uniprocessor options, then boot with the `nmi_watchdog=1' LILO option, see if you can get an NMI oops backtrace.
