Tom Coady wrote: > X is restarting with increasing frequency: here are the last messages: > [root@xxxxxx root]# tail /var/log/messages > May 3 11:10:40 fish gconfd (tom-8832): Received signal 15, shutting > down cleanly This isn't just bringing down X, it's crashing the whole system. Actually not always; this time the SSH session is still up but the X login has changed to non gui and it will not allow me to log in. I know its likely to be hardware, but I have not changed anything and the messages don't give me much clue. The file system is sitting at 70% used. May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 0000000c May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: printing eip: May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: d881dbda May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: *pde = 00000000 May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: Oops: 0002 May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: mga agpgart autofs iptable_filter ip_tables 8139too mii sg sr_mod ide-scsi scsi_mod ide-cd cdrom loop lvm-mod keybdev mousedev hid input usb-ohci usbcore ext3 May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: CPU: 0 May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: EIP: 0060:[<d881dbda>] Not tainted May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: EIP is at ext3_splice_branch [ext3] 0x1ba (2.4.20-9 ) May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: eax: cab8bdb4 ebx: 0000000b ecx: d7fbfde0 edx : 00000000 May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp : cab8bd78 May 7 12:24:33 fish kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 May 7 12:24:34 fish kernel: Process updatedb (pid: 2561, stackpage=cab8b000) May 7 12:24:34 fish kernel: Stack: d881df06 00000000 d7fbfde0 0000000b cab8bdb4 00000000 0000000e ffffffff May 7 12:24:34 fish kernel: 00000286 cab8bdc8 ca795eb4 00000212 d2904e20 ca4c2000 00000000 ca4c3fbc May 7 12:24:34 fish kernel: 00020518 00000212 00000000 c1f08000 00000302 00000000 00020068 c01416eb May 7 12:24:34 fish kernel: Call Trace: [<d881df06>] ext3_getblk [ext3] 0x46 (0xcab8bd78)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<c01416eb>] getblk [kernel] 0x2b (0xcab8bdd4)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<c0141712>] getblk [kernel] 0x52 (0xcab8bde0)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<c014193a>] bread [kernel] 0x1a (0xcab8bdf8)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<d881f989>] ext3_get_inode_loc [ext3] 0xe9 (0xcab8 be0c)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<d8820cac>] ext3_find_entry [ext3] 0xdc (0xcab8be2 4)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<c013481e>] __kmem_cache_alloc [kernel] 0xae (0xca b8be80)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<d8820f59>] ext3_lookup [ext3] 0x29 (0xcab8beac)) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<c014990a>] real_lookup [kernel] 0x9a (0xcab8bec4) ) May 7 12:24:35 fish kernel: [<c0149de8>] link_path_walk [kernel] 0x3c8 (0xcab8b ee0)) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c014a251>] path_lookup [kernel] 0x21 (0xcab8bf20) ) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c014a47a>] __user_walk [kernel] 0x2a (0xcab8bf30) ) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c0146537>] vfs_lstat [kernel] 0x17 (0xcab8bf44)) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c012d726>] do_brk [kernel] 0xf6 (0xcab8bf50)) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c0146a81>] sys_lstat64 [kernel] 0x11 (0xcab8bf70) ) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c012c749>] sys_brk [kernel] 0xd9 (0xcab8bf9c)) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c01155d0>] do_page_fault [kernel] 0x0 (0xcab8bfb0 )) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c0109214>] error_code [kernel] 0x34 (0xcab8bfb8)) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: [<c0109103>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xcab8bfc0) ) May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: May 7 12:24:36 fish kernel: May 7 12:24:37 fish kernel: Code: 89 5f 0c eb b9 90 55 57 56 53 83 ec 50 8d 44 24 40 8b 7c 24 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: <1>Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtu al address a2b6ccac May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: printing eip: May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: c012f389 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: *pde = 00000000 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: Oops: 0002 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: mga agpgart autofs iptable_filter ip_tables 8139too mii sg sr_mod ide-scsi scsi_mod ide-cd cdrom loop lvm-mod keybdev mousedev hid input usb-ohci usbcore ext3 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: CPU: 0 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: EIP: 0060:[<c012f389>] Not tainted May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: EFLAGS: 00010246 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: EIP is at do_generic_file_read [kernel] 0x489 (2.4. 20-9) May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: d4cd4ba0 ecx: 0000001f edx : 00000000 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: esi: 00000000 edi: d38fa308 ebp: 00000000 esp : d395ff2c May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: ds: 0068 es: 0068 ss: 0068 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: Process winbindd (pid: 1958, stackpage=d395f000) May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: Stack: 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 d38fa260 00000000 c012f610 d395ff7c May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: d4cd4bc0 d4cd4ba0 00000000 d4cd4ba0 ffffffea 00000000 c012f732 d4cd4ba0 May 7 12:26:09 fish kernel: d4cd4bc0 d395ff7c c012f610 00000000 00000000 000000a8 083a5dfc 00000000 May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: Call Trace: [<c012f610>] file_read_actor [kernel] 0x0 (0xd395ff44)) May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: [<c012f732>] generic_file_read [kernel] 0x82 (0xd39 5ff64)) May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: [<c012f610>] file_read_actor [kernel] 0x0 (0xd395ff 74)) May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: [<c013fa45>] sys_read [kernel] 0x85 (0xd395ff9c)) May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: [<c0109103>] system_call [kernel] 0x33 (0xd395ffc0) ) May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: May 7 12:26:10 fish kernel: Code: e9 3d fc ff ff 31 c0 88 d0 8b 0c 81 e9 cd fb ff ff 8d b6 00 May 7 13:04:08 fish gconfd (tom-2080): Received signal 15, shutting down cleanl y May 7 13:04:08 fish gconfd (tom-2080): Exiting May 7 13:04:08 fish gdm(pam_unix)[2016]: session closed for user tom May 7 13:28:16 fish samba(pam_unix)[2642]: session opened for user tom by (uid= 0) May 7 13:30:45 fish samba(pam_unix)[2642]: session closed for user tom
