Alan, I was able to reproduce this oops with a somewhat more reliable ksymoops (I was ready for this nasty bug this time). Looks like the problem is in the sockets code. See attached. Jeff
ksymoops 0.7c on i686 2.2.18pre21. Options used EIP: 0010: [<c013365d>] Using defaults from ksymoops -t elf32-i386 -a i386 Call Trace: [<c014c43d>] [<c014cb15>] [<c012d79a>] [<c012dda8>] [<c014cb82>] [<c014d7cb>] [<c010a038>] Warning (Oops_read): Code line not seen, dumping what data is available >>EIP; c013365d <get_empty_inode+15/98> <===== Trace; c014c43d <get_fd+91/9c> Trace; c014cb15 <sock_create+85/d8> Trace; c012d79a <permission+1a/2c> Trace; c012dda8 <open_namei+1dc/34c> Trace; c014cb82 <sys_socket+1a/7c> Trace; c014d7cb <sys_socketcall+5f/1a8> Trace; c010a038 <system_call+34/38>