[plug] Linux

[Andrew Barbara]

Hi
On of our servers crashed with the following output.  What does this mean =
and how can we stop it from happening again?

Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at =
virtual address eb851ed0
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:  printing eip:
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: c010dce1
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: pgd entry c7023eb8: 0000000000000000
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: pmd entry c7023eb8: 0000000000000000
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: ... pmd not present!
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Oops: 0000
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: CPU:    0
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: EIP:    0010:[restore_fpu+1/32]
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: EIP:    0010:[<c010dce1>]
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: EFLAGS: 00010206
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: eax: c3786000   ebx: c3786000   ecx: =
bfffe0b0   edx: 00000018
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: esi: eb851eb8   edi: 3f9eb851   ebp: =
bfffde98   esp: c3787fb8
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: ds: 0018   es: 0018   ss: 0018
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Process sendmail (pid: 6746, stackpage=3Dc3=
787000)
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Stack: c010a029 c3786000 c01090b4 4025e9e4 =
bfffe0b0 000eb851 eb851eb8 3f9eb851=20
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:        bfffde98 3f900000 0000002b 0000002b =
ffffffff 40188db5 00000023 00010202=20
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:        bfffde88 0000002b=20
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Call Trace: [math_state_restore+25/64] =
[ret_from_exception+0/16] [<eb851eb8>]=20
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Call Trace: [<c010a029>] [<c01090b4>] =
[<eb851eb8>]=20
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel:=20
Nov  5 07:43:00 gateway kernel: Code: 3a 34 32 3a 30 31 20 a1 6c 6b 25 c0 =
8b 54 24 04 a9 00 00 00=20
Thanks.

Andrew Barbara,  MCP
MMT Networks Pty Ltd
http://www.mmtnetworks.com.au