This bug dump has happened to me for the last 4 or 5 kernels I've built and installed, 2.6.19.x, 2.6.20 and 2.6.20.2. It happens on all of them and it's very random. I'm almost wondering if it's a memory issue. Please CC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. System specs: 4 GB memory (PAE enabled) SATA hard (AHCI) P5B asus mobo Core 2 duo cpu. Nvidia video BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 printing eip: c0195fa0 *pde = 1b866001 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0002 [#1] PREEMPT SMP Modules linked in: snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss ipv6 ext3 jbd capability commoncap lp psmouse ohci1394 ieee1394 nvidia(P) i2c_i801 snd_hda_intel snd_hda_codec sg parport_pc agpgart snd_pcm parport ehci_hcd r8169 i2c_core pcspkr evdev uhci_hcd serio_raw snd_timer snd soundcore snd_page_alloc CPU: 0 EIP: 0060:[<c0195fa0>] Tainted: P VLI EFLAGS: 00010287 (2.6.20.2 #1) EIP is at create_empty_buffers+0x20/0xa0 eax: 00000000 ebx: c12f3c00 ecx: 00000001 edx: 00000000 esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: c42c30f8 esp: d4bc7ca4 ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Process hald-probe-volu (pid: 26850, ti=d4bc6000 task=ec281030 task.ti=d4bc6000) Stack: c12f3c00 00000001 c42c31ac c0196b64 00000001 00000002 c4231e00 00000000 00000001 00000000 d4bc7ccc 00000001 c036ff2a 00004000 00000002 00000020 00000000 c01dbfc6 00000001 c01999f0 c12f3c00 00000008 c42c31b0 00000000 Call Trace: [<c0196b64>] block_read_full_page+0x284/0x340 [<c036ff2a>] wait_for_completion+0xba/0xd0 [<c01dbfc6>] radix_tree_node_alloc+0x16/0x60 [<c01999f0>] blkdev_get_block+0x0/0x80 [<c015241d>] add_to_page_cache+0x8d/0xb0 [<c0159150>] read_pages+0x80/0x100 [<c0157054>] __alloc_pages+0x54/0x2f0 [<c0159326>] __do_page_cache_readahead+0x156/0x160 [<c015947d>] blockable_page_cache_readahead+0x4d/0xd0 [<c0159753>] page_cache_readahead+0x183/0x1c0 [<c0153012>] do_generic_mapping_read+0x482/0x540 [<c0153354>] generic_file_aio_read+0x194/0x1f0 [<c01530d0>] file_read_actor+0x0/0xf0 [<c017305d>] do_sync_read+0xbd/0x110 [<c01d1310>] blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x50/0x90 [<c013dde0>] autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x50 [<c019ad08>] block_ioctl+0x18/0x20 [<c0199ce0>] block_llseek+0xe0/0x120 [<c0173240>] vfs_read+0x190/0x1a0 [<c0173541>] sys_read+0x41/0x70 [<c01032d8>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb ======================= Code: b6 00 00 00 00 8d bf 00 00 00 00 57 56 89 ce b9 01 00 00 00 53 89 c3 e8 4f f6 ff ff 89 c7 89 c2 8d 74 26 00 8d bc 27 00 00 00 00 <09> 32 89 d0 8b 52 04 85 d2 75 f5 89 78 04 8b 43 10 83 c0 4c e8 EIP: [<c0195fa0>] create_empty_buffers+0x20/0xa0 SS:ESP 0068:d4bc7ca4 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html