severity 255175 critical thanks I upgraded some time ago the kernel-image to kernel-image-2.4.26-1-686, version 2.4.26-2 (in testing at the moment) and these oops appear frequently (I would even say that with a higher frequency that with previous version 2.4.26-1, but I have not investigated in depth). My system still crashes from time to time (it will not stay up for more than a week). It usually will start first spouting some 'Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address' oopses but it will keep running, however, at some point, and after some time (see attached syslog) it will start to send oops: 'kernel BUG at page_alloc.c:221!' (sometimes page_alloc.c:113) whenever a process is spawned, rendering the system unusable. In this situation only a hard reboot can make it recover. I'm consequently raising this bug's priority, because this kernel image makes the system quite unstable. I don't know if this affects version 2.4.26-4 (in sid at the moment) too, it's not easy to reproduce, but I will install that kernel version and see what happens. Attached is a capture of the different oops I've encountered at different points before the system crash, these were copy&pasted directly from the screen. Also attached are the kernel oops that syslog recorded (as you can see, not all of them are included). Also, in case it's useful, I'm providing the output of ksymoops using this oops file. Most of the tasks associated with the oops are usually cron tasks and the system has plenty of swap space. If there is anything I can do to provide additional info, feel free to ask. Since I don't really know what causes it I'm at a loss in order to reproduce it. Thanks Javier
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