On Sat, 23 Feb 2008, Ted.Harding@manchester.ac.uk wrote:
I've just had a string of messahes from/about the kernel (All at the same time, so I'm omitting the repeated "Message from sysloigd ... " lines):
Message from syslogd@localhost at Sat Feb 23 14:48:19 2008 ... localhost kernel: Oops: 0000 [#1] localhost kernel: SMP localhost kernel: CPU: 0 localhost kernel: EIP is at 0x8978b66 localhost kernel: eax: 08ebf068 ebx: 08b91df8 ecx: 09eccc28 edx: 08ebf068 localhost kernel: esi: 0a20e3c8 edi: 09eccc28 ebp: bfc25f98 esp: bfc25f98 localhost kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 007b localhost kernel: Process firefox-bin (pid: 28766, ti=ce4ae000 task=c53f6000 task.ti=ce4ae000) localhost kernel: EIP: [<08978b66>] 0x8978b66 SS:ESP 007b:bfc25f98
Can we please have the full Ooops trace? Depending on the output, you might wish to file a bug report.
What might these indicate?
The kernel oopsed. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kernel_oops
(Debian 4.0 Etch, regularly updated, running in VirtualBox on a Vista system).
Srdjan