computer freezing with kernel ooops

[Marius Andreiana]

Hi

On a fresh installed system, after several hours of use (1-5), kernel
gives an oops error and it freezes:

Apr 22 11:43:25 dana modprobe: modprobe: Can't locate module
sound-service-1-0
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer
dereference at virtual address 00000204
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel:  printing eip:
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: c015442e
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: *pde = 062f8067
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: *pte = 00000000
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Oops: 0000
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: via82cxxx_audio ac97_codec uart401 sound
soundcore
floppy ide-cd cdrom ipt_MASQUERADE iptable_nat ipt_LOG binfmt_misc
parport_pc lp parport tulip ipt_REJECT i
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: CPU:    0
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: EIP:    0060:[<c015442e>]    Not tainted
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: EFLAGS: 00013286
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel:
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: EIP is at __pollwait [kernel] 0x1e
(2.4.22-1.2115.nptl)
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: eax: c667a5c0   ebx: c150fc40   ecx:
c667a5c0   edx: 00000200
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: esi: c667a5c0   edi: 00000200   ebp:
c5d5387c   esp: c6e17ee8
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: ds: 0068   es: 0068   ss: 0068
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Process epiphany-bin (pid: 3444,
stackpage=c6e17000)
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Stack: c150fc40 c667a5c0 00000003 00000008
c025b1ee c667a5c0 c5d5387c 00000200
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel:        c0386620 c02076dc c667a5c0 c5d53860
00000200 00000000 c01547b4 c667a5c0
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel:        00000200 c6e16000 00000145 c6e16000
7fffffff 00000000 00000200 00000000
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Call Trace:   [<c025b1ee>] unix_poll
[kernel] 0x2e
(0xc6e17ef8)
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c02076dc>] sock_poll [kernel] 0x2c
(0xc6e17f0c)
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c01547b4>] do_select [kernel] 0x204
(0xc6e17f20)
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c0154b42>] sys_select [kernel] 0x352
(0xc6e17f5c)Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: [<c01099df>] system_call
[kernel] 0x33 (0xc6e17fc0)Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel:
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel:
Apr 22 12:25:05 dana kernel: Code: 8b 5f 04 85 db 74 10 8b 4b 04 8d 83
00 10 00
00 8d 51 18 39

What could be the cause?
Sometimes is shows the stack of metacity, X, instead of epiphany shown
here.

Thanks
-- 
Marius Andreiana
Galuna - Solutii Linux in Romania
http://www.galuna.ro