[Bug 27190] Re: general protection fault

[Rkimber]

I've now managed to install Dapper flight 6, and I'm getting:-

Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088378] general protection fault: 0000 [3] PREEMPT SMP
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088388] CPU 0
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088391] Modules linked in: binfmt_misc ipt_limit iptable_mangle ipt_LOG ipt_MASQUERADE ip_nat ipt_TOS ipt_REJECT ip_conntrack_irc ip_conntrack_ftp ipt_state ip_conntrack nfnetlink iptable_filter ip_tables video tc1100_wmi sony_acpi pcc_acpi hotkey dev_acpi container button acpi_sbs battery ac i2c_acpi_ec nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat ipv6 dm_mod md_mod w83627hf hwmon_vid eeprom i2c_isa lp snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq tsdev psmouse serio_raw pcspkr snd_via82xx parport_pc parport rtc gameport nvidia snd_ac97_codec snd_ac97_bus snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi snd_seq_device shpchp pci_hotplug snd i2c_viapro i2c_core soundcore tg3 sg sd_mod evdev ext3 jbd ide_generic usb_storage scsi_mod uhci_hcd ehci_hcd usbcore ide_disk via82cxxx generic ide_cd cdrom pdc202xx_new thermal processor fan capability commoncap vga16fb cfbcopyarea vgastate cfbimgblt cfbfillrect fbcon tileblit font bitblit
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: softcursor
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088447] Pid: 22698, comm: formail Tainted: P      2.6.15-20-amd64-generic #1
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088452] RIP: 0010:[do_execve+681/688] <ffffffff8019ac49>{do_execve+681}
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088468] RSP: 0018:ffff81002d1f7f20  EFLAGS: 00010292
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088473] RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff81002d23d000 RCX: 000000000000001b
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088478] RDX: ffff810069760a00 RSI: ffff810001000000 RDI: ffff810069760a00
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088482] RBP: 0000000000519830 R08: 00007fffffbab389 R09: 0000000000000000
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088486] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 000000000000000f R12: 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088491] R13: 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf R14: 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf R15: 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088496] FS:  00002aaaaaf806d0(0000) GS:ffffffff80446800(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088500] CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 000000008005003b
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088504] CR2: 00007fffffbab389 CR3: 000000002db17000 CR4: 00000000000006e0
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088509] Process formail (pid: 22698, threadinfo ffff81002d1f6000, task ffff81002d5f9560)
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088512] Stack: 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf 00e4dbcf00e4dbcf
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088521]        0000000000517390 00000000005173cd ffffffff801102fe 0000000000000000
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088527]        0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088531] Call Trace:<ffffffff801102fe>{stub_execve+106}
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088573]
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088574] Code: c3 90 90 90 90 90 90 48 83 bf a0 01 00 00 00 48 8b 06 74 0a
Apr 20 14:46:25 infinity kernel: [61154.088585] RIP <ffffffff8019ac49>{do_execve+681} RSP <ffff81002d1f7f20>

this is with 2.6.15-20-amd64-generic

I also get other oopses, but it's not always clear which package is involved.  Should I report these, and under what heading?

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general protection fault
https://launchpad.net/bugs/27190