This morning I got two oopses apparently caused by ext3. This box has been really stable in the past and was upgraded recently to vanilla 2.4.21 (two weeks ago). After the oopses I was able to log in (ssh) the box as a normal user but not as root and most commands locked (all commands I tested) I guess when trying to use the fs. At the beginning apache was still serving pages properly. I checked marcelo's changelog and did not see ext3 related bug fix (except quota related ones, I don't use quota on this box) I attach the two decoded oops and the config, please tell me if you need more info, Christophe -- Christophe Barbe GnuPG FingerPrint: E0F6 FADF 2A5C F072 6AF8 F67A 8F45 2F1E D72C B41E