Bug#449024: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64: general protection fault

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 06:17:43PM +0600, Meder Bakirov wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64
> Version: 2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4
> Severity: critical
> Justification: breaks the whole system
> 
> I am running a content filtering caching proxy server (Dansguardian + Squid). 
> After a day of successful run in production (not so much load - 8 local PCs), server suddenly hanged with the following error message on console: 
> Pid: 3888, comm: dansguardian Not tainted 2.6.18-5-amd64 #1
> Server stopped responding to the pings and I could not ssh into the server.
> The server runs on Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.00GHz with 1G of RAM.

Does this error show up reproducibly?

If so, does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

If you're running Etch, could you try to reproduce this bug
with the 2.6.24 based kernel added in 4.0r4?
http://packages.qa.debian.org/l/linux-2.6.24.html

Cheers,
        Moritz