Hi, Michael Kress wrote: > But it only appeared once, I normally load the module once, then I call > it every 3 sec over the whole day. The only difference today: I loaded > the module lots of times today. > Another difference: I activated MSI in the kernel in order to solve this > problem: http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0610.1/0101.html > CONFIG_PCI_MSI=y > I recompiled the kernel without CONFIG_PCI_MSI and the same thing happened. It's absoluteley the same config as before... Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: general protection fault: 0000 [1] SMP Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: CPU 0 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: Modules linked in: pc87427 hwmon i2c_isa i2c_core xt_physdev iptable_filter ip_tables x_tables bridge ipv6 autofs4 sunrpc pcmcia yenta_socket rsrc_nonstatic pcmcia_core joydev video thermal processor fan container button battery ac uhci_hcd ehci_hcd e1000 dm_snapshot dm_zero dm_mirror ext3 jbd dm_mod 3w_9xxx aic79xx scsi_transport_spi sd_mod Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: Pid: 9044, comm: sensors Not tainted 2.6.16-xen #1 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: RIP: e030:[<ffffffff80178679>] <ffffffff80178679>{vfs_read+281} Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: RSP: e02b:ffff880028b99f18 EFLAGS: 00010202 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: RAX: 0000000000000002 RBX: 4c0841894c01894c RCX: 0000000000000000 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: RDX: 0000000000000002 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff88003dd64260 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: RBP: 0000000000000002 R08: 00000000fffffffb R09: 0000000000000000 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: R10: 00000000ffffffff R11: 0000000000000000 R12: 0000000000000001 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: R13: 00002b0dfe3ca000 R14: ffff880028b99f50 R15: 000000000054ff10 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: FS: 00002b0dfe2c48a0(0000) GS:ffffffff8049a000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: CS: e033 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: Process sensors (pid: 9044, threadinfo ffff880028b98000, task ffff88003ea530e0) Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: Stack: ffff88003fec2180 0000000000001000 00002b0dfe3ca000 fffffffffffffff7 Oct 15 09:57:13 matrix kernel: 0000000000000000 ffffffff80178a23 0000000000000000 0000000000000002 Oct 15 09:57:14 matrix kernel: 0000000000001000 000000000054ff10 Oct 15 09:57:14 matrix kernel: Call Trace: <ffffffff80178a23>{sys_read+83} <ffffffff8010b206>{system_call+134} Oct 15 09:57:14 matrix kernel: <ffffffff8010b180>{system_call+0} Oct 15 09:57:14 matrix kernel: Oct 15 09:57:14 matrix kernel: Code: 4c 8b 6b 10 48 89 df 41 0f b7 45 4c 25 00 f0 00 00 3d 00 40 Oct 15 09:57:14 matrix kernel: RIP <ffffffff80178679>{vfs_read+281} RSP <ffff880028b99f18> dmesg outputs the same, sensors is running every 3 secs, so must be something else. It doesn't really disturb me as the rest of the system really stays stable and sensors still displays the fan speeds, but maybe you'd like to find the reason why. Salut - Michael -- Michael Kress, kress at hal.saar.de http://www.michael-kress.de / http://kress.net P E N G U I N S A R E C O O L
