[ale] Kernel Fault help...

[Jay Finch]

Hi y'all,
	I know that a General Protection Fault is a BAD THING (tm), and I never
thought I'd see one in Linux, but it's happened to me 2 times now. (that I
know of)

HEre's how it starts:
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Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: general protection: 0000
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: CPU:    0
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: EIP:    0010:[shrink_mmap+116/524]
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: EFLAGS: 00010213
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: eax: 00000000   ebx: 002a0744   ecx: 00000006
 edx: f000ef6f
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: esi: 000003fe   edi: 00001ffc   ebp: 00008000
 esp: 0204dedc
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   fs: 002b   gs: 002b
ss: 0018
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: Process index.cgi (pid: 9826, process nr: 83,
stackpage=0204d000)
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: Stack: 00000006 00000001 00000000 00000000
02f9e848 00800000 001202c8 00000006
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel:        00000000 00000001 00000003 00000118
04f2c810 060df098 00120d6a 00000003
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel:        00000000 00000001 02086080 034ed978
04f2c810 060df098 001ed594 000023d2
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: Call Trace: [try_to_free_page+80/184]
[__get_free_pages+422/444] [do_no_page+452/820] [do_no_page+0/820
] [do_page_fault+312/776] [do_page_fault+0/776] [error_code+64/80]
Dec 30 20:12:06 larp kernel: Code: f6 42 14 10 74 0e 0f ba 72 14 04 19 c0
0f ba 6b 18 02 19 c0
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It then proceeds to lock up my system and logs until forcibly rebooted.

Any suggestions on what's wrong with my poor machine?  Is it a hardware
issue?  Miscompiled Kernel?

Thanks!
Jay
...puzzled & confused...
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