Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 07:01:53PM -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
 > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:
 > > On Fri, May 02, 2008 at 06:49:26PM -0400, Dr. Diesel wrote:
 > >   > Does this mean anything?
 > >
 > >  yes, bad voodoo.
 > >
 > >   > [root at localhost ~]# dmesg | tail
 > >
 > >  please file a bugzilla with the full dmesg output.
 > >  (unless you're using any binary-only modules, in which case
 > >   all bets are off)
 > >
 > >  thanks,
 > >
 > >                 Dave
 > 
 > No binary modules.  Today's Rawhide.
 > 
 > Wait a minute, I did just install VirtualBox 1.6 not long before?
 > Which has a kernel module...

Which does all sorts of futzing with page tables.
Chances are it can't cope with the changes done in .25 to support PAT.
(Though I've seen it cause numerous cases of corruption in even
 before these changes).

If I were a betting man, I'd put odds on that module being the cause
of your problems.

		Dave