Hi! When executing /usr/sbin/poff, this happened once with 2.6.7-rc1: ------------[ cut here ]------------ kernel BUG at net/core/dev.c:3046! invalid operand: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT Modules linked in: CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c039020e>] Not tainted EFLAGS: 00010297 (2.6.7-rc1) EIP is at free_netdev+0x27/0x3d eax: f7a631e0 ebx: f5e97d74 ecx: f7fb1c88 edx: 00000003 esi: f7a631e0 edi: c0496400 ebp: f5640f4c esp: f5640f4c ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process pppd (pid: 7607, threadinfo=f5640000 task=f55a98f0) Stack: f5640f7c c02bd2d3 00000000 f7fce794 f5640f88 c0192043 f7fe578c f7fe903c c0175296 f5e97d74 00000000 f7fce794 f5640f88 c02b8507 f56a9a98 f5640fa4 c01752e7 f78c6564 f79c3bc8 f56a9a98 00000000 f79fdab0 f5640fbc c0173666 Call Trace: [<c01064fc>] show_stack+0x7a/0x90 [<c010667a>] show_registers+0x14d/0x19c [<c0106848>] die+0xf0/0x243 [<c0106c94>] do_invalid_op+0x98/0x9a [<c01061c1>] error_code+0x2d/0x38 [<c02bd2d3>] ppp_shutdown_interface+0x21d/0x3b2 [<c02b8507>] ppp_release+0x50/0x52 [<c01752e7>] __fput+0x105/0x116 [<c0173666>] filp_close+0x4f/0x77 [<c010571f>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Code: 0f 0b e6 0b 2e 08 43 c0 eb e1 2b 80 48 02 00 00 5d e9 29 59 PPP is version 2.4.2, gentoo release -r2 Dominik - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html