This happened on my firewall, my other oops happened on my server. The firewall boots from a CompactFlash-IDE adapter, and sits doing mostly nothing in a very small network. It does NTP, DHCP, DNS cache and firewalling. The firewall itself runs Debian, tweaked to write to disk as little as possible, but with a Gentoo kernel (just because I had the sources at hand). I'm not completely sure this is the right place to report it, but since it's the Gentoo kernel I thought I'd try here first. The only unusual hardware is a 4 port D-Link DFE-580TX network card. Reproducible: Didn't try Steps to Reproduce: Unknown Unfortunately, the oops didn't fit completely on the screen. I am filing this bug in case this information is enough. This was copied by hand. Stack: c02bd223 c1d49dc0 c4d196c4 00000007 c03fca00 c0290d77 c7d49dc0 c0121ada c1d49e44 00000000 c03fae48 00000004 c0121d08 c03fca00 c03fc9a4 c03fca00 c033edcc c03fc9a0 c03fc9c0 c0117fdb 00000000 00000001 c0117e03 c03fae48 Call Trace: [<c026d223>] dst_destroy+0xa3/0xc0 [<c0290d77>] dst_rcu_free+0x27/0x30 [<c0121ada>] rcu_do_batch+0x1a/0x60 [<c0121d08>] rcu_process_callbacks+0x28/0x30 [<c0117fdb>] tasklet_action+0x3b/0x60 [<c0117e03>] __do_softirq+0x83/0xa0 [<c0102a49>] do_softirq+0x39/0x40 =========================== [<c0118145>] softirqd+0x65/0xb0 [<c0124617>] kthread+0x97/0xa0 [<c0124580>] kthread+0x0/0xa0 [<c0100795>] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Code: Bad EIP value. <0>Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Created attachment 52421 [details] kernel config
Please test your memory with memtest86 Please test development_sources-2.6.11-rc5
Well, darn. Turns out to be memory indeed. Looks like the DIMM socket is bad, and the module fits way too loosely inside it. Worked for months before that though, I must have moved it. This ended producing filesystem corruption, so I couldn't have closed this earlier because I've been setting up another machine to replace the one that stopped booting. Well, sorry for yet another bad report...
