On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 12:30:23PM +0200, Keld J?rn Simonsen wrote: > open("/proc/apm", O_RDONLY) = 4 ... > read(4, <unfinished ...> This was caused by e2fsck trying to read from /proc/apm to see whether or not your system was running on batteries or not. /proc/apm exists (or the open would have returned an error), but reading from it apparently causes a kernel oops. This is definitely a kernel bug, and I suspect can be reproduced by the shell command "cat /proc/apm". Recompiling the kernel with CONFIG_APM disabled is probably the most expedient answer, since for most systems ACPI is more functional (and in some cases, required). Indeed, the APM code has been sufferring progressive bitrot, which probably explains the kernel oops. You could try sending a complaint to LKML if you really need APM functionality for your laptop, and for some reason ACPI is not sufficent for your needs. Regards, - Ted _______________________________________________ Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users