Public bug reported: I had finished doing some work in a chroot, had exited it, and issued the command "umount -a", rather than individually umount each of the mounted elements. That killed X completely and gave a screenful of error messages. I was able to reboot using the alt-sysrq REISUB sequence.
If this is an illegal command in the circumstances, I would have expected to get a warning of some kind, or have the command blocked altogether. The machine is an EeePC 900, and the system is a fully-updated version of 12.04 (non-pae kernel) running gnome-fallback. ProblemType: KernelOops DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: linux-image-3.2.0-18-generic 3.2.0-18.28 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-18.28-generic 3.2.9 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-18-generic i686 AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.24. Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted. AplayDevices: **** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 ApportVersion: 1.94-0ubuntu1 Architecture: i386 ArecordDevices: **** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices **** card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: ALC662 rev1 Analog [ALC662 rev1 Analog] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 AudioDevicesInUse: USER PID ACCESS COMMAND /dev/snd/controlC0: ja 1618 F.... pulseaudio CRDA: Error: command ['iw', 'reg', 'get'] failed with exit code 1: nl80211 not found. Card0.Amixer.info: Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf7eb8000 irq 44' Mixer name : 'Realtek ALC662 rev1' Components : 'HDA:10ec0662,10438337,00100101' Controls : 20 Simple ctrls : 11 CurrentDmesg: Date: Wed Mar 7 07:57:54 2012 Failure: oops HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=f1a0537c-5454-47d0-be4b-44c916978365 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release i386 (20111011) IwConfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. MachineType: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 900 ProcFB: 0 inteldrmfb ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-18-generic root=UUID=f1b69783-76f9-4736-a5d1-38b520d82063 ro quiet splash PulseSinks: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sinks'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. PulseSources: Error: command ['pacmd', 'list-sources'] failed with exit code 1: No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon. RelatedPackageVersions: kerneloops-daemon 0.12+git20090217-1ubuntu18 RfKill: 0: eeepc-wlan: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: no SourcePackage: linux Title: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000009c UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) dmi.bios.date: 03/03/2009 dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc. dmi.bios.version: 1006 dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M. dmi.board.name: 900 dmi.board.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. dmi.board.version: x.xx dmi.chassis.asset.tag: 0x00000000 dmi.chassis.type: 10 dmi.chassis.vendor: ASUSTek Computer INC. dmi.chassis.version: x.x dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr1006:bd03/03/2009:svnASUSTeKComputerINC.:pn900:pvr0405:rvnASUSTeKComputerINC.:rn900:rvrx.xx:cvnASUSTekComputerINC.:ct10:cvrx.x: dmi.product.name: 900 dmi.product.version: 0405 dmi.sys.vendor: ASUSTeK Computer INC. ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: apport-kerneloops i386 kernel-oops precise -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/948308 Title: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000009c To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/948308/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs