Folks, I have a RHEL 3 production Cyrus IMAP server that has kernel paniced twice in as many weeks with something similar to the below. The /imap partition (where the IO was in question) is about 98% full with about 6.2G free and is hosted on a fiber connected EMC Clariion lun. Currently running kernel 2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp. I know things are old here, and the machine is on the upgrade list, but I need to do due diligence to figure out how serious this error is. Does anyone have any advice why this is happening? Thanks, Jack Neely Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000004 printing eip: f88d2863 *pde = 299d3001 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0002 audit autofs openafs e1000 iptable_filter ip_tables floppy microcode emcphr emcpmpap emcpmpaa emcpmpc emcpmp sg emcp emcpsf loop lvm-mod keybdev mousedev hid CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<f88d2863>] Tainted: P EFLAGS: 00010213 EIP is at ext3_orphan_del [ext3] 0x73 (2.4.21-15.0.4.ELsmp/i686) eax: c520d360 ebx: e3fc8900 ecx: e3fc8aac edx: 00000000 esi: 00000000 edi: c520d000 ebp: c520d360 esp: eed8fddc ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 Process imapd (pid: 7628, stackpage=eed8f000) Stack: e4de9940 eed8e000 c69b6200 e9ffde00 f88b8445 000f8094 c520d0fc e1ee4e80 00000007 00000292 e3fc8900 00000000 eed8e000 f88cc72c c69b6200 e3fc8900 e4de9940 eed8e000 e9ffde00 f88cc84c e4de9940 e3fc8900 ee6d7500 e3fc8900 Call Trace: [<f88b8445>] journal_start_Rsmp_25661df5 [jbd] 0xa5 (0xeed8fdec) [<f88cc72c>] start_transaction [ext3] 0x8c (0xeed8fe10) [<f88cc84c>] ext3_delete_inode [ext3] 0x8c (0xeed8fe28) [<f88cc7c0>] ext3_delete_inode [ext3] 0x0 (0xeed8fe3c) [<c017ccd0>] iput [kernel] 0x150 (0xeed8fe44) [<c0179afa>] dput [kernel] 0xca (0xeed8fe60) [<c0161a5b>] __fput [kernel] 0xbb (0xeed8fe74) [<c015fc0e>] filp_close [kernel] 0x8e (0xeed8fe90) [<c012bf6c>] put_files_struct [kernel] 0x6c (0xeed8feac) [<c012c85a>] do_exit [kernel] 0x1ba (0xeed8fec8) [<c012cbbb>] do_group_exit [kernel] 0x8b (0xeed8fee4) [<c013656b>] get_signal_to_deliver [kernel] 0x20b (0xeed8fef8) [<c010bdd4>] do_signal [kernel] 0x64 (0xeed8ff20) [<c0175a56>] sys_select [kernel] 0x296 (0xeed8ff60) Code: 89 42 04 89 10 c7 41 04 00 00 00 00 89 8b ac 01 00 00 89 8b Kernel panic: Fatal exception -- Jack Neely <jjneely@xxxxxxxx> Linux Czar, OIT Campus Linux Services Office of Information Technology, NC State University GPG Fingerprint: 1917 5AC1 E828 9337 7AA4 EA6B 213B 765F 3B6A 5B89 _______________________________________________ Ext3-users mailing list Ext3-users@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/ext3-users