During a test installation of Debian I got the following Oops at the point where either the installer's internal webserver (implemented in shell using netcat ;-) was started or where that server was contacted a bit later. The oops did not repeat; the installation as a whole succeeded. I know this is not a very current kernel, but this is what we're releasing with. Well, the release will be using 2.6.26.7 actually. Cheers, FJP Nov 15 21:51:18 main-menu[8071]: INFO: Menu item 'save-logs' selected Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.122285] Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00000000491f2000 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.122723] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->context = 000000000000103c Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123000] tsk->{mm,active_mm}->pgd = fffff8003e28e000 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123260] \|/ ____ \|/ Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123272] "@'/ .. \`@" Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123282] /_| \__/ |_\ Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123291] \__U_/ Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123311] cat(6180): Oops [#1] Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123335] TSTATE: 0000008811009607 TPC: 00000000004579ac TNPC: 00000000004579b0 Y: 00000000 Not tainted Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123379] TPC: <r_show+0x34/0x9c> Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123398] g0: 00000000491f4458 g1: 000000000000ffff g2: ffffffffffffffff g3: 00000000491f2ba8 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123425] g4: fffff800309c93e0 g5: 0000000000000010 g6: fffff8003b32c000 g7: 000000000073be58 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123451] o0: fffff8003bba1a40 o1: 00000000006e7f30 o2: 0000000000000000 o3: 00000000006f22a8 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123478] o4: 0000000000000008 o5: 000001ffc0000000 sp: fffff8003b32f2a1 ret_pc: 0000000000457a0c Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123506] RPC: <r_show+0x94/0x9c> Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123525] l0: fffff8003bba1a40 l1: fffff8003f0025c0 l2: 0000000000000000 l3: 0000000000000000 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123550] l4: 0000000000000000 l5: 0000000000000000 l6: 0000000000000000 l7: 0000000000000000 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123577] i0: fffff8003bba1a40 i1: 00000000491f2ba8 i2: fffff8003b32fc30 i3: 435f322e30000000 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123603] i4: 435f322e30000000 i5: 000000000000ffff i6: fffff8003b32f381 i7: 00000000004c6098 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123646] I7: <seq_read+0x1f4/0x318> Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123662] Caller[00000000004c6098]: seq_read+0x1f4/0x318 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123692] Caller[00000000004ea138]: proc_reg_read+0x4c/0x60 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123722] Caller[00000000004ac040]: vfs_read+0x78/0x124 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123754] Caller[00000000004ac328]: sys_read+0x34/0x60 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123783] Caller[00000000004060d4]: linux_sparc_syscall32+0x3c/0x40 Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123825] Caller[0000000000015004]: 0x1500c Nov 15 21:51:20 kernel: [ 2172.123849] Instruction DUMP: 94102000 80a08001 99673008 <c658e020> 80a0c007 22600007 c25e6010 9402a001 80a2a005 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html