Good morning folks! I've been having an extremely bothersome problem with my machine, and i'm hoping for some guidance - This occured while running vmware. There was an error within that program, and then the system went nuts and crashed. Hardware - ECS K7VMM+ 3.1 Mobo AMD Athlon XP 1700+ 512MB PC133 Micron RAM Video card 1 - S4 Savage 8MB (integrated) Video card 2 - ATI Rage Pro 8MB AC'97 Sound, likely VIA Dlink DFE530TX LAN card Software - Linux hydra 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:19:15 UTC 2002 i686 unknown Any ideas? Ask for info, I'll supply it =). Thanx! Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: /dev/vmmon: Vmx86_ReleaseVM: unlocked pages: 2283310, unlocked dirty pages: 1353521 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000018 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: printing eip: Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: c0133084 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: *pde = 00000000 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Oops: 0002 2.4.19-4GB #1 Fri Sep 13 13:19:15 UTC 2002 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: CPU: 0 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: EIP: 0010:[__remove_inode_page+68/192] Tainted: PF Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c0133084>] Tainted: PF Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: EFLAGS: 00213246 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: eax: 00000000 ebx: c15b3250 ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: esi: cfd08d68 edi: 00000000 ebp: 00000000 esp: d2aefe34 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Process vmware (pid: 1741, stackpage=d2aef000) Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Stack: 00203216 fffffffc c15b3250 c01332a7 c15b3250 00000000 c15b3250 c013336e Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: c15b3250 4001c000 00000000 c012f08f d2aefe90 c9c23400 40017000 00000000 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: 00000000 00000001 00000000 00000000 cfd08d78 cfd08d70 c01334f1 00000000 Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Call Trace: [truncate_complete_page+71/96] [truncate_list_pages+174/496] [zap_page_range+79/176] [t runcate_inode_pages+65/112] [vmtruncate+133/320] Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Call Trace: [<c01332a7>] [<c013336e>] [<c012f08f>] [<c01334f1>] [<c012ffe5>] Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: [inode_setattr+246/272] [ext2_setattr+76/144] [notify_change+382/400] [do_truncate+101/128] [unmap_f ixup+310/336] [do_munmap+663/720] Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: [<c015c586>] [<c017615c>] [<c015c78e>] [<c0143a45>] [<c0132656>] [<c0132997>] Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: [do_sys_ftruncate+263/356] [nls_iso8859-1:__insmod_nls_iso8859-1_O/lib/modules/2.4.19-4GB/kernel/fs/ n+-131677148/96] [sys_ftruncate+39/48] [system_call+51/56] Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: [<c0144fd7>] [<c2d40424>] [<c0143aa7>] [<c010907f>] Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Modules: [(vmmon:<c2d40060>:<c2d44ab4>)] Jun 2 18:42:03 hydra kernel: Code: ff 4a 18 8b 53 04 8b 03 89 50 04 89 02 8b 53 24 8b 43 10 c7 -- .--------------------------------------. |Jason DeCamp - jason@teletran-one.net | .--------------------------------------.