Hi! I tried to use cdrdao on 2.5.5x kernels but kernel gives me following messages. Further debugging reveals that sb is NULL in __ext3_std_error() function. I tried this on ext2 and it seems it isn't ext3 specific, on ext2 it also doesn't work. cdrdao is after this in D state and is unkillable, but the CD-ROM drive from which I tried to grab is perfectly usable. This happens to me only with cdrdao, otherwise system is perfectly solid. Cheers, Vita grabbing to the ext3 partition: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000118 printing eip: c018893a *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c018893a>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010097 EIP is at vsnprintf+0x22a/0x41c eax: 00000118 ebx: c0344919 ecx: 00000118 edx: fffffffe esi: cdb21e50 edi: ffffffff ebp: 00000118 esp: cdb21dfc ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process cdrdao (pid: 238, threadinfo=cdb20000 task=d12c4780) Stack: c0344900 00000246 d11e0a00 c02ae2c8 d201ab70 d2609f20 ffffffff 00000000 c0344cff c01179c9 c0344900 00000400 c02733da cdb21e4c 00000000 c02725c6 d11e0a00 d201ab60 c01672a8 c02733c0 00000118 c02725c6 cdb21e6c 00000000 Call Trace: [<c01179c9>] printk+0x61/0x114 [<c01672a8>] __ext3_std_error+0x30/0x40 [<c0162c0a>] ext3_setattr+0x19a/0x1b0 [<c014b606>] notify_change+0xe6/0x180 [<c013696b>] do_truncate+0x5b/0x78 [<c0142d41>] may_open+0x165/0x17c [<c0143015>] open_namei+0x2bd/0x3d0 [<c013770f>] filp_open+0x3b/0x5c [<c0137a63>] sys_open+0x37/0x78 [<c0108877>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 80 38 00 74 07 40 4a 83 fa ff 75 f4 29 c8 89 44 24 10 8b 44 grabbing to the ext2 partition: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 0a00007c printing eip: c012d596 *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c012d596>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010296 EIP is at vmtruncate+0x102/0x140 eax: 00000000 ebx: 00000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 0a000000 esi: 00000000 edi: d37a7504 ebp: 00000000 esp: d2023e50 ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process cdrdao (pid: 159, threadinfo=d2022000 task=d2666140) Stack: 00000048 d2023edc d37a7430 00000000 d37a7504 d37a74c0 00050070 0a000000 00000000 c0000024 00000a00 d37a7430 d2023edc d37a7430 c0175795 d37a7430 d2023edc d2023edc 000081a4 00000048 c014b606 d24ee9c0 d2023edc d37a7430 Call Trace: [<c0175795>] ext2_setattr+0x25/0x30 [<c014b606>] notify_change+0xe6/0x180 [<c013696b>] do_truncate+0x5b/0x78 [<c0142d41>] may_open+0x165/0x17c [<c0143015>] open_namei+0x2bd/0x3d0 [<c013770f>] filp_open+0x3b/0x5c [<c0137a63>] sys_open+0x37/0x78 [<c0108877>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 8b 42 7c 85 c0 74 0d 8b 40 2c 85 c0 74 06 52 ff d0 83 c4 04 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users