Periodically my kernel is crashing. Not sure what is causing it. Any help would be appreciated.

ar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: kernel BUG at <bad filename>:51843!
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#2]
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: SMP
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: Modules linked in: tun nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat nvidia ppdev lp xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables xt_stat
e x_tables ip_conntrack nfnetlink ipv6 sd_mod ext3 jbd mbcache dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod asb100 hwmon_vid sr_mod sbp2 ide_generic snd_cmipci
i2c_viapro usb_storage i2c_core pcspkr gameport snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_mpu401_uart via_ircc snd_rawmidi s
nd_seq_device floppy scsi_mod shpchp pci_hotplug irda parport_pc 8250_pnp rtc snd psmouse via_agp agpgart crc_ccitt parport serio_raw soundcore
mousedev tsdev eth1394 evdev usbhid xfs ide_cd cdrom ide_disk uhci_hcd ehci_hcd ohci1394 ieee1394 via82cxxx generic ide_core 3c59x mii usbcore
thermal processor fan
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: EIP: 0060:[<b0149a55>] Tainted: P B VLI
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.17-2-k7 #1)
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: b11e2780 ecx: 00000001 edx: b11e2780
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: esi: 00000020 edi: 08106000 ebp: cee6e418 esp: b30a7df0
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: Process bash (pid: 14975, threadinfo=b30a6000 task=c357c560)
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: Stack: b0144abb 00000000 e1351e8c b30a7e58 003a9f97 00000000 00000001 0817b000
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: d9c8b080 e45a5740 b1805a60 ffffffea ffffffff b13dcdcc d9c8b080 0817b000
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: 00000000 b30a7e58 e936d85c e45a5740 e2a915a0 b014704c ffffffff b30a7e54
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: <b0144abb> unmap_vmas+0x259/0x4a5 <b014704c> exit_mmap+0x6d/0xd4
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: <b011a80e> mmput+0x20/0x75 <b015c09d> flush_old_exec+0x5bc/0x7d7
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: <b015b824> kernel_read+0x32/0x3c <b017787e> load_elf_binary+0x460/0x12d8
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: <b013f3d9> __alloc_pages+0x4e/0x267 <b015b530> copy_strings+0x1b3/0x1bd
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: <b015b5e0> search_binary_handler+0x88/0x200 <b015cde2> do_execve+0x158/0x1ef
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: <b010192e> sys_execve+0x2b/0x6c <b0102b5b> syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: Code: 95 ff ff 85 c0 89 c3 75 c9 c6 45 28 01 83 c4 20 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 c2 90 83 40 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74
15 8b 42 08 40 79 02 <0f> 0b 83 ca ff b8 10 00 00 00 e9 aa 46 ff ff c3 55 57 89 d7 56
Mar 8 16:13:01 acid kernel: EIP: [<b0149a55>] page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24 SS:ESP 0068:b30a7df0
Mar 8 16:27:31 acid kernel: <7>APIC error on CPU0: 40(40)

Which kernel?


You can try to add noapic at the end of the line in file /boot/grub/menu.lst

Linux 2.6.17-2-k7 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 17:18:46 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux

After running a few days with the noapic in grub, it has crashed multiple times in 3 days.

First Crash:

Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: kernel BUG at <bad filename>:51843!
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#1]
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: SMP
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia ppdev lp xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables xt_state x_tables ip_conntrack nfnetlink ipv6 ext3 jbd mbcache dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod asb100 hwmon_vid sr_mod sbp2 ide_generic i2c_viapro i2c_core parport_pc floppy snd_cmipci gameport snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device via_ircc snd shpchp pci_hotplug sd_mod parport 8250_pnp pcspkr psmouse soundcore irda rtc via_agp agpgart serio_raw crc_ccitt eth1394 evdev mousedev tsdev xfs ide_cd cdrom ide_disk usb_storage scsi_mod usbhid via82cxxx ohci1394 ieee1394 generic ide_core uhci_hcd ehci_hcd 3c59x mii usbcore thermal processor fan
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: EIP: 0060:[<b0149a55>] Tainted: P VLI
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.17-2-k7 #1)
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: b1462660 ecx: 00000001 edx: b1462660
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: esi: 00000020 edi: 08106000 ebp: ced36418 esp: e069bdf0
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: Process bash (pid: 20904, threadinfo=e069a000 task=e2bc6580)
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: Stack: b0144abb 00000000 e07ad7ac e069be58 003a9f97 00000000 00000001 0817b000
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: b58c5080 c2883580 b1805a60 ffffffea ffffffff b13da6cc b58c5080 0817b000
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: 00000000 e069be58 e05fd5f4 c2883580 e6c81040 b014704c ffffffff e069be54
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: <b0144abb> unmap_vmas+0x259/0x4a5 <b014704c> exit_mmap+0x6d/0xd4
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: <b011a80e> mmput+0x20/0x75 <b015c09d> flush_old_exec+0x5bc/0x7d7
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: <b015b824> kernel_read+0x32/0x3c <b017787e> load_elf_binary+0x460/0x12d8
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: <b013f3d9> __alloc_pages+0x4e/0x267 <b015b530> copy_strings+0x1b3/0x1bd
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: <b015b5e0> search_binary_handler+0x88/0x200 <b015cde2> do_execve+0x158/0x1ef
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: <b010192e> sys_execve+0x2b/0x6c <b0102b5b> syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: Code: 95 ff ff 85 c0 89 c3 75 c9 c6 45 28 01 83 c4 20 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 c2 90 83 40 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 15 8b 42 08 40 79 02 <0f> 0b 83 ca ff b8 10 00 00 00 e9 aa 46 ff ff c3 55 57 89 d7 56
Mar 10 14:57:20 acid kernel: EIP: [<b0149a55>] page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24 SS:ESP 0068:e069bdf0
Mar 10 16:17:23 acid kernel: <6>agpgart: Found an AGP 2.0 compliant device at 0000:00:00.0.
Mar 10 16:17:23 acid kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:00:00.0 into 4x mode
Mar 10 16:17:23 acid kernel: agpgart: Putting AGP V2 device at 0000:01:00.0 into 4x mode


2nd Crash

Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: kernel BUG at <bad filename>:51843!
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#2]
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: SMP
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia ppdev lp xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables xt_state x_tables ip_conntrack nfnetlink ipv6 ext3 jbd mbcache dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod asb100 hwmon_vid sr_mod sbp2 ide_generic i2c_viapro i2c_core parport_pc floppy snd_cmipci gameport snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device via_ircc snd shpchp pci_hotplug sd_mod parport 8250_pnp pcspkr psmouse soundcore irda rtc via_agp agpgart serio_raw crc_ccitt eth1394 evdev mousedev tsdev xfs ide_cd cdrom ide_disk usb_storage scsi_mod usbhid via82cxxx ohci1394 ieee1394 generic ide_core uhci_hcd ehci_hcd 3c59x mii usbcore thermal processor fan
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: EIP: 0060:[<b0149a55>] Tainted: P VLI
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: EFLAGS: 00210286 (2.6.17-2-k7 #1)
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: b13e7ba0 ecx: 00000000 edx: b13e7ba0
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: esi: 00000020 edi: 09001000 ebp: cff7b004 esp: b717def8
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: Process acroread (pid: 2565, threadinfo=b717c000 task=d3889560)
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: Stack: b0144abb 00000000 cf19990c b717df60 0030fda5 00000000 00000001 090f0000
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: d7268090 e40e7580 b1805a60 00000000 fffffffe b13fef6c d7268090 090f0000
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: 00000000 b717df60 cf19990c e40e7580 b717dfa0 b014704c ffffffff b717df5c
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: <b0144abb> unmap_vmas+0x259/0x4a5 <b014704c> exit_mmap+0x6d/0xd4
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: <b011a80e> mmput+0x20/0x75 <b011efd2> do_exit+0x17c/0x6be
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: <b011f57a> sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd <b0102b5b> syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: Code: 95 ff ff 85 c0 89 c3 75 c9 c6 45 28 01 83 c4 20 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 c2 90 83 40 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 15 8b 42 08 40 79 02 <0f> 0b 83 ca ff b8 10 00 00 00 e9 aa 46 ff ff c3 55 57 89 d7 56
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: EIP: [<b0149a55>] page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24 SS:ESP 0068:b717def8
Mar 10 22:48:48 acid kernel: <1>Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!


Multiple Crashes filling up kern.log

Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: kernel BUG at <bad filename>:51843!
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#3]
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: SMP
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia ppdev lp xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables xt_state x_tables ip_conntrack nfnetlink ipv6 ext3 jbd mbcache dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod asb100 hwmon_vid sr_mod sbp2 ide_generic i2c_viapro i2c_core parport_pc floppy snd_cmipci gameport snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device via_ircc snd shpchp pci_hotplug sd_mod parport 8250_pnp pcspkr psmouse soundcore irda rtc via_agp agpgart serio_raw crc_ccitt eth1394 evdev mousedev tsdev xfs ide_cd cdrom ide_disk usb_storage scsi_mod usbhid via82cxxx ohci1394 ieee1394 generic ide_core uhci_hcd ehci_hcd 3c59x mii usbcore thermal processor fan
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: EIP: 0060:[<b0149a55>] Tainted: P VLI
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: EFLAGS: 00210286 (2.6.17-2-k7 #1)
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: b13e7ba0 ecx: b1805a60 edx: b13e7ba0
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: esi: 00000020 edi: 09001000 ebp: e017a004 esp: c1035ef8
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: Process acroread (pid: 24240, threadinfo=c1034000 task=cf5f7540)
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: Stack: b0144abb 00000000 c842f38c c1035f60 00337dbd 00000000 00000001 090f0000
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: c6780090 c2883200 b1805a60 00000000 fffffffe b1602f4c c6780090 090f0000
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: 00000000 c1035f60 c842f38c c2883200 c1035fa0 b014704c ffffffff c1035f5c
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: <b0144abb> unmap_vmas+0x259/0x4a5 <b014704c> exit_mmap+0x6d/0xd4
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: <b011a80e> mmput+0x20/0x75 <b011efd2> do_exit+0x17c/0x6be
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: <b011f57a> sys_exit_group+0x0/0xd <b0102b5b> syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: Code: 95 ff ff 85 c0 89 c3 75 c9 c6 45 28 01 83 c4 20 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 c2 90 83 40 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 15 8b 42 08 40 79 02 <0f> 0b 83 ca ff b8 10 00 00 00 e9 aa 46 ff ff c3 55 57 89 d7 56
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: EIP: [<b0149a55>] page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24 SS:ESP 0068:c1035ef8
Mar 10 22:49:18 acid kernel: <1>Fixing recursive fault but reboot is needed!
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: Bad page state in process 'kswapd0'
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: page:b1462660 flags:0x80010008 mapping:00000000 mapcount:-1 count:0
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: Trying to fix it up, but a reboot is needed
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: Backtrace:
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: <b013ea59> bad_page+0x41/0x67 <b013eca4> free_hot_cold_page+0x5b/0xd0
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: <b013ed2d> __pagevec_free+0x14/0x1a <b014125a> __pagevec_release_nonlru+0x55/0x60
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: <b0142500> shrink_zone+0x79e/0xa5b <b01429ac> balance_pgdat+0x1ef/0x320
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: <b0142c04> kswapd+0xd5/0xd7 <b012c45f> autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x2d
Mar 10 22:54:40 acid kernel: <b0142b2f> kswapd+0x0/0xd7 <b0101005> kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0xb
Mar 10 22:55:32 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 10 23:03:15 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 10 23:08:19 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 10 23:12:19 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 10 23:18:10 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 10 23:23:36 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 10 23:29:09 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 10 23:33:48 acid kernel: hdd: write_intr: wrong transfer direction!
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: ------------[ cut here ]------------
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: kernel BUG at <bad filename>:51843!
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: invalid opcode: 0000 [#4]
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: SMP
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: Modules linked in: nvidia ppdev lp xt_tcpudp iptable_filter ip_tables xt_state x_tables ip_conntrack nfnetlink ipv6 ext3 jbd mbcache dm_snapshot dm_mirror dm_mod asb100 hwmon_vid sr_mod sbp2 ide_generic i2c_viapro i2c_core parport_pc floppy snd_cmipci gameport snd_pcm snd_page_alloc snd_opl3_lib snd_timer snd_hwdep snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device via_ircc snd shpchp pci_hotplug sd_mod parport 8250_pnp pcspkr psmouse soundcore irda rtc via_agp agpgart serio_raw crc_ccitt eth1394 evdev mousedev tsdev xfs ide_cd cdrom ide_disk usb_storage scsi_mod usbhid via82cxxx ohci1394 ieee1394 generic ide_core uhci_hcd ehci_hcd 3c59x mii usbcore thermal processor fan
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: CPU: 0
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: EIP: 0060:[<b0149a55>] Tainted: P B VLI
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: EFLAGS: 00010286 (2.6.17-2-k7 #1)
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: EIP is at page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: eax: ffffffff ebx: b1527260 ecx: 00000000 edx: b1527260
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: esi: 00000020 edi: 08106000 ebp: cec76418 esp: cf64ddf0
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: ds: 007b es: 007b ss: 0068
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: Process bash (pid: 23672, threadinfo=cf64c000 task=d19c3ab0)
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: Stack: b0144abb 00000000 cfb354ec cf64de58 003aaf96 00000000 00000001 0817b000
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: e2eac080 ba527c80 b1805a60 ffffffea ffffffff b13d8ecc e2eac080 0817b000
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: 00000000 cf64de58 cb3e87ac ba527c80 dd64e5a0 b014704c ffffffff cf64de54
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: Call Trace:
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: <b0144abb> unmap_vmas+0x259/0x4a5 <b014704c> exit_mmap+0x6d/0xd4
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: <b011a80e> mmput+0x20/0x75 <b015c09d> flush_old_exec+0x5bc/0x7d7
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: <b015b824> kernel_read+0x32/0x3c <b017787e> load_elf_binary+0x460/0x12d8
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: <b013f3d9> __alloc_pages+0x4e/0x267 <b015b530> copy_strings+0x1b3/0x1bd
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: <b015b5e0> search_binary_handler+0x88/0x200 <b015cde2> do_execve+0x158/0x1ef
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: <b010192e> sys_execve+0x2b/0x6c <b0102b5b> syscall_call+0x7/0xb
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: Code: 95 ff ff 85 c0 89 c3 75 c9 c6 45 28 01 83 c4 20 89 f8 5b 5e 5f 5d c3 89 c2 90 83 40 08 ff 0f 98 c0 84 c0 74 15 8b 42 08 40 79 02 <0f> 0b 83 ca ff b8 10 00 00 00 e9 aa 46 ff ff c3 55 57 89 d7 56
Mar 11 00:03:21 acid kernel: EIP: [<b0149a55>] page_remove_rmap+0x14/0x24 SS:ESP 0068:cf64ddf0

Try a newer kernel, 2.6.18 for example