I have the same kernel problem. The machine is unstable, with random
freezees every couple of days.

The problem:
- Machine is unstable. Max uptime is about two weeks. Hard freezees occur 
randomly, sometimes after less than day of use. Freeze is hard, nothing works: 
num lock does not change light, alt-ctrl-del does not work, picture is frozen 
on screen. Freeze also occurs when machine is not heavily loaded, even though 
heavy load seems to make it crash faster sometimes. 
- To test the problem, I changed hard disk, re-installed Ubuntu (6.06 LTS -> 
7.04). I checked that hard drive and motherboard temperature is acceptable. 
Memory passed test. 
- Also, USB stopped to work after a kernel upgrade in Dapper (another bug).
- Machine is unstable in both 6.06 LTS and 7.04, even though I have only seen 
the error in dmesg of 7.07. Attached dmesg is from 7.04.  

Some lines from dmesg:
Eeek! page_mapcount(page) went negative! (-1)
kernel BUG at mm/rmap.c:588!
Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed

Test setup:
- sudo lshw: CPU AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2200+, BIOS American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 
(04/02/01), Motherboard ECS M848A
- uname -a: Linux *** 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 
i686 GNU/Linux
- Ubuntu 7.04, fresh install. 


** Attachment added: "dmesg with page_mapcount negative error"
   http://librarian.launchpad.net/7418347/dmesg-eek.txt

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page_mapcount(page) went negative!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107325
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