Hello Randy, > BTW, this says that this is the second oops: "[#2]". > What was the first one? Apr 21 10:53:27 www adaptec-smbe: aiomgrd startup succeeded Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000034 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: printing eip: Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: c03227a0 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: *pde = 36c2f001 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: SMP Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Modules linked in: md5 ipv6 iptable_filter ip_tables tg3 floppy sg microcode ohci_hcd video button battery ac ext 3 jbd dm_mod aacraid aic79xx sd_mod scsi_mod Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: CPU: 3 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c03227a0>] Not tainted VLI Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: EFLAGS: 00010086 (2.6.11-1.14_FC2.rootsmp) Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: EIP is at _spin_lock_irqsave+0x10/0x60 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: eax: 00000030 ebx: 00000286 ecx: bfff9b4c edx: bfff9b4c Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: esi: 00000030 edi: 00000030 ebp: bfff9b4c esp: f5f52f14 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Process aiomgrd (pid: 3003, threadinfo=f5f52000 task=f7381020) Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Stack: 00000000 0000fe01 00042008 00000000 f886ac4a 00042008 00000000 00000000 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: f8869b80 42676a06 00000000 42676a06 00000000 42676a06 00042008 bfff9b4c Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: 00000000 bfff9b4c f886a560 f8871d80 f6c96880 ffffffe7 c017580a bfff9b4c Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Call Trace: Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: [<f886ac4a>] fib_alloc+0x1a/0x70 [aacraid] Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: [<f8869b80>] ioctl_send_fib+0x10/0x110 [aacraid] Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: [<f886a560>] aac_do_ioctl+0x60/0xcf [aacraid] Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: [<c017580a>] do_ioctl+0x6a/0x90 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: [<c0175a7e>] vfs_ioctl+0x5e/0x1d0 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: [<c0175c4b>] sys_ioctl+0x5b/0x90 Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: [<c0104203>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb Apr 21 10:53:27 www kernel: Code: af de 75 0c f0 83 28 01 79 05 e8 9c e4 ff ff c3 0f 0b d7 00 78 a7 33 c0 eb ea 90 83 ec 10 89 74 24 0c 89 c6 89 5c 24 08 9c 5b fa <81> 78 04 ad 4e ad de 75 26 f0 fe 0e 79 13 f7 c3 00 02 00 00 74 The same can be triggered by starting Adaptecs aaccli and giving the following command: aaccli CLI > controller list Sincerly, Klaus -- Klaus Steinberger Maier-Leibnitz Labor Phone: (+49 89)289 14287 Am Coulombwall 6, D-85748 Garching, Germany FAX: (+49 89)289 14280 EMail: Klaus.Steinberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx URL: http://www.physik.uni-muenchen.de/~k2/ In a world without Walls and Fences, who needs Windows and Gates - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html