Sorry if this is repeated.. Using correct email address now. Ive had two of them in the last two weeks.. The most recent kernel output is kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000009c kernel: printing eip: kernel: c88132b4 kernel: *pde = 00000000 kernel: Oops: 0000 kernel: ppp_async ppp_generic slhc 3c509 8139too mii ipt_state ipt_LOG ipt_REJECT ipt_ kernel: CPU: 0 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c88132b4>] Not tainted kernel: EFLAGS: 00210286 kernel: kernel: EIP is at journal_blocks_per_page_Rab88fbd5 [jbd] 0x4 (2.4.18-3) kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: c77b8468 edx: c162412c kernel: esi: c162412c edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: c7de7f10 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 kernel: Process kupdated (pid: 7, stackpage=c7de7000) kernel: Stack: c881f9b3 00000000 c0136eb8 009bfec8 c018c6e2 000000c8 c7de6000 c162412c kernel: c881e12a 00000000 009bfe3d c0353d44 0000000b c7dcdec0 c018ca54 c0353d44 kernel: c162412c 00000004 c1624124 c7de6000 c01275aa c162412c c1624134 c881e0c0 kernel: Call Trace: [<c881f9b3>] ext3_writepage_trans_blocks [ext3] 0xf Checked the mailing list archives... Any ideas? Steve