Bug#600656: linux-image-2.6.32-5-amd64: Crash after nullpointer dereference during gparted reading a disk

[Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 02:20:00AM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 00:41 +0200, Andreas Feldner wrote:
> > Hi Ben,
> > 
> > somehow netconsole doesn't do anything for me. But it turned out the the 
> > system behaviour is not exactly reproducible and anyway I can see the messages 
> > on screen if X is not started (because nvidia module banned ;-) ).
> > 
> > So, here I have the following error message, hope that helps!
> [...]
> 
> OK, this looks really weird.  I looked for reports of similar crashes
> and found <http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/11/302> which apparently turned
> out to be due to a hardware fault.
> 
> Could you test Linux 2.6.36 as packaged in experimental?  If that has
> the same problem, try running memtest86+ for a while to check whether
> this is due to bad RAM.  I suspect it isn't, but we have to check.

Andreas, did you test later kernels (now also in unstable) and memtest?

Cheers,
        Moritz