From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751205AbWGGGqZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:46:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751203AbWGGGqZ (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:46:25 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:15269 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751205AbWGGGqY (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:46:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2006 02:46:10 -0400 From: Dave Jones To: Bret Towe Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc1 bttv modprobe null pointer dereference Message-ID: <20060707064610.GA27347@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Bret Towe , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060706215225.290360bf.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 10:19:09PM -0700, Bret Towe wrote: > ill be recompiling without it and seeing if anything looks odd > and the mce i think has always been there as i recall seeing it > when i did previous bug reports If you're getting recurring machine checks, that smells strongly like a hardware problem. Have you tried running memtest on this box ? Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk